Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Hamernick
per . Somebody apparently wrote this in response to his recent death, and both sources are obituaries. In fact they are special-interest obituaries; no independent reliable source seems to have published one. I'm sure he was a fine person, but he does not meet Wikipedia's criteria for notability. The department-chair position is not enough, and Google Scholar finds almost nothing
— User:MelanieN, 16:47, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTMEMORIAL (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)