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Review of submission by User:Plinthist

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Transferred discussion from the Help Desk regarding academic notability and the decision to accept the draft. Cmajorftw 20:01, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

19:19, 10 April 2026 review of submission by Plinthist

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It looks like my biographical article (well, stub) was rejected due to not meeting the general notability standards. The subject is a professor, so I had expected that the academic notability standards would apply instead. Plinthist (talk) 19:19, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

The draft was declined, not rejected. Rejected has a specific meaning in the draft process, that a draft may not be resubmitted. Declined means that it may be resubmitted.
Which of the academic standards do you assert that the professor meets? 331dot (talk) 19:24, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Pardon me re: rejection. (5) - he holds a named chair. Arguably also (1) - he gave a prestigious named lecture, is on the editorial board of several well-regarded journals (most notably the American Journal of Comparative Law), and has a few unusually well-cited publications. Plinthist (talk) 19:35, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Plinthist: yep, I would agree with you there, and that named chair is usually a pretty good indicator of academic notability, another is the two-volume From Kant to Hilbert (OUP). @Cmajorftw: would you mind reverting your decline and accepting this instead? Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 19:25, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
...unless any of my learned friends object, of course! -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 19:26, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
No objection. The academic standards(and what can support them) are a little wonky compared to the rest of them, and reviewers can miss it. 331dot (talk) 19:39, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I see the case for academic notability under WP:NACADEMIC C5 given the named chair. My initial decline was based on the lack of independent secondary sources, and how the draft is very thin and deserve a better coverage on Wikipedia. As @331dot said my rejection only means you can improve the article more before getting accepted.. However, if the consensus is that the article in its current state is more than enough, I have no objection to the draft being accepted. Cmajorftw 19:47, 10 April 2026 (UTC)Reply