Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lars Onsager Lecture and The Lars Onsager Professorship

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 delete. All of the keep arguments are based in the false premise that notability is inherited. Smashville^talk 21:59, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Lars Onsager Lecture and The Lars Onsager Professorship (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

There are thousands upon thousands of specific professor chairs in the world, and this one does not stand out. Deprodded with the reason "Significant award deserves an article", but read again and you will find that this entry is not about an award. That would be the Onsager Medal, I guess, for which no article exists. Punkmorten (talk) 17:43, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. I don't see this as significant; I can rattle off about a half-dozen such positions at my college alone. It's not notable.Tyrenon (talk) 23:29, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:06, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. Highly prestigious award, recipients and institution. Article needs to be linked from the Lars Onsager page. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:47, 29 May 2009 (UTC).
  • This is no award. Punkmorten (talk) 08:46, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
    • The first line of the article claims that they are. Xxanthippe (talk) 09:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC).
      • Come on, how can a professorship and a lecture be awards? Punkmorten (talk) 09:10, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Ask the authors of the article, not me. Xxanthippe (talk) 09:52, 30 May 2009 (UTC).

• Delete per nom -- there's no reason to have articles on lectures or professorships/chairs like this. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 20:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
• Keep significant award. It is an award (something awarded on merit); see e.g. Temple University announcement, NTNU announcement, INTUTE announcement, The Lars Onsager Lecture and The Lars Onsager Professorship at Princeton. The last, in particular, says "The Lars Onsager Lecture and the Lars Onsager Professorship are awarded by the Onsager committee which consists of . . . . Both the Lecturer and the Professor receive the Onsager medal." Pretty clearly the professorship and the lecture are awarded, and thus are awards. They are prestigious. Fg2 (talk) 11:41, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
• Keep article would better be furthered by listing those Nobels etc. (those who have wiki-pages) received the award and when, I found some odd ones here and there but a year by year would be an improvement.--Alf ^melmac 07:23, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
• Comment -- to those arguing keep, where are the reliable sources demonstrating notability? (All four references currently on the page are self-published). A google news search (all dates) on both terms resulted in not a single hit. As for the notion that the award is significant because the recipients are, see WP:NOTINHERITED. Really, the quality of the keep arguments so far is very poor. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 14:46, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:N and WP:NOTINHERITED. This is a single chair without notability; if it deserves mention, it deserves it on its parent university's page, and I'm honestly not even sure that's merited, considering the large number of such positions some colleges and universities will have. (Self-edit: And I do apologize for "voting" twice; I overlooked my previous entry here.)Tyrenon (talk) 09:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

The editor above identifies himself on his talk page as "a proud deletionist". Xxanthippe (talk) 09:20, 1 June 2009 (UTC).

"Comment on content, not on the contributor." Sound familiar? Nomoskedasticity (talk) 10:27, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

It is legitimate to flag POV, the more so if the POV is self-confessed. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:59, 1 June 2009 (UTC).

• Delete per Tyrenon. Stifle (talk) 08:25, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.