Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Paul Sally


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: keep. — Jeffq 13:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Paul Sally
Not notable. ~ UDScott 12:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: keep (2 Keeps; 1 Delete). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:20, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 12:40, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: This person currently has a Wikipedia article and seems to be on the threshhold of notability. (Sally is a university professor who heads a University of Chicago department, has received several awards for special projects, and has been cited in some news articles.) I've nominated the WP article for deletion as well in order to determine which side Sally falls on by current standards, and in the hopes that we can get sources for these quotes (as well as improvements to the WP article). As it stands, the quotes here all sound like conversation with students, which will get axed without sources as being unverifiable. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The WP article survived its AfD nomination. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - eminent in the mathematics community. &mdash; Dan | talk 07:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. I'm satisfied with the notability arguments in WP's AfD. However, all of the current quotes in the article sound like classroom talk, which is impossible to reliably source or verify. Assuming this survives our VfD (which seems likely), I will remove any quotes I can't find a proper source for, which at the moment will leave this article empty. I urge Sally fans to scare up some verifiable quotes. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)


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