Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Trammell

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Non-notable author, professor, and political candidate. He received some national coverage in 2014 because he was the Democratic nominee in the race where Dave Brat primaried out House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, but not very much. The fact that news coverage of him completely dried up after the 2014 race shows he is not a notable person. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 17:05, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment. It is clear that he does not merit inclusion for his political activity which consists of run of the mill party activism, the 2014 US House election, and a respectable overperformance in a special election earlier this year. This is why professors who run for office are always a tricky one for me. The article is clearly created due to a candidacy, but they might qualify for their professional work. The [https://directory.msmary.edu/people/john-trammell.html Mount St. Mary's University directory] says that he is at present a Department Chair (which is not to say that Department Chair shares a definition with "chair" at Wikipedia:Notability (academics)). Ultimately, I think this will need to be judged with Wikipedia:Notability (academics) with no regard as to his candidacies. He has a bibliography [https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0039TH0AW at Amazon] which is NOT self-published works. He also has a number of results on Google Scholar, EBSCO Host, and JSTOR pending verification it is the same Jack Trammell. The article needs an update and to be reframed away from his candidacies. I do hope to have a formal vote before the close of this AfD, but I'm in "weak keep" to "keep" territory at the moment.--Mpen320 (talk) 20:51, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

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• Weak delete. I'm of the mind that his career in academia does not meet WP:ACADEMIC and without that he would not meet WP:GNG. This is still more of an edge case than most articles created due to candidacies.--Mpen320 (talk) 02:51, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. I did a search for reviews of his books on Google, Proquest and Google Scholar and came up with nothing usable for WP:NAUTHOR. I also don't see a pass of any of the WP:NPROF criteria — his [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Jack+Trammell&btnG= citation count] doesn't meet the bar for C1, and I couldn't find any indication of a pass under any of the other criteria. The coverage of his unsuccessful election candidacy strikes me as WP:ROUTINE, and I didn't see anything else suggestive of a WP:GNG pass. MCE89 (talk) 13:53, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. I would have expected someone with eight books to pass WP:AUTHOR through multiple published reviews of those books, but I could find none, matching MCE89's results. The best shot seems to be WP:PROF#C1 but although he has a couple of moderately well cited publications (126 citations on Google Scholar for "Postsecondary students and disability stigma" and 104 for "The impact of academic accommodations on final grades") they weren't enough to convince me. And obviously NPOL is out. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:06, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

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