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Non-notable; fails WP:BIO and WP:PROF. The only secondary sources ever provided are critical, and consist of links to Tim Lambert's blog and to brief coverage in the Skeptic's Dictionary. This is not "non-trivial coverage in independent, reliable secondary sources." The article is a WP:COATRACK and POV fork to present Brignell's minoritarian views out of context. MastCell 16:41, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- weak delete, based on Brignell being certainly less notable than Lambert William M. Connolley 16:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. There's literally nothing here. Primary sources like Brignell's self-published books and his personal web page can't sustain an article. wikipediatrix 18:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- The article is poor, and POV-biased against the subject of the biography. But the solution is to fix it. The initial version was actually quite good. Unfortunately, the solid informational content has been deleted, and replaced by almost nothing at all, except a couple of blatantly POV attacks on the subject of the biography. My vote is against deletion; rather, the article should be restored to its earlier, substantive, NPOV form. NCdave 21:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Comment: While the earlier version is indeed longer, it contains no additional secondary sources. It merely expounds at greater length on Brignell's views - so it suffers from the same lack of notability and compounds that problem by functioning as a POV fork and WP:COATRACK by regurgitating Brignell's minoritarian views out of context. The older version is actually less NPOV, because it gives more undue weight to his views without providing any independent sources to back up their notability. MastCell 21:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. —David Eppstein 20:00, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
- Keep His primary career was notable. For some reason, a recent ed. removed the discussion of it from the article. I have just restored it. That material is considered reliable--an official site is an adequate source. What he may have been doing since then--its a question of the reviews of his books. If he is regarded as an important guy who got things wrong, he's notable for that part also. But in any case he was formerly chair of his dept. at Southampton.-- among the information that was removed. I think it's been established that full professors and chairs of UK university departments are notable. The book he wrote then was removed also, and we can look for the other publications, but he would hardly have been appointed without them. southampton is a technologically oriented research university of very high order, and the information comes from its official site. , I consider the removal of this material as an accident, for otherwise it would have been an absurd attempt to sabotage the article by removing material showing unquestionable notability--absurd because it's still in the history, where anyone could see it and add it back, as I have done. I did not remove the questioned material about his subsequent activities. It's not necessary to show notability, and the eds. can dispute this part on the talk page, as I'm sure they will. DGG (talk) 03:04, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- Delete No more notable than a typical full professor at a research university (what we call Research I universities in the U.S.; don't know if the UK has a similar system). I strongly disagree that full professors and department chairs are prima facie notable. No secondary coverage outside his specialization. Articles on figures of borderline notability are serious BLP risks, as there are few people watching should they be vandalized or edited with malice. Raymond Arritt 03:30, 22 August 2007 (UTC)