Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcello Ferrada de Noli
I want to expand on my AfD proposal above, to provide some context. It is clear that Professor Ferrada de Noli has some academic publications, and has written opinion pieces in newspapers related to his work. However, the volume and significance of his academic output over his career (he is now retired) do not rise to the notability standards established by . The only other potentially notable fact about him is the fact that he founded SWEDHR, an opinion website run by a group of six people with advanced academic degrees in very different fields that posts opinion pieces supportive of the Russian government's policy positions, and is in turn cited by pro-government Russian media (Sputnik, RT, etc) as external evidence for the rightness of Russian policy. The coverage in mainstream Swedish media focuses entirely on the confusion among Swedes at the prominence afforded in Russia to a supposedly Swedish organization that is unknown in Sweden. At the same time, SWEDHR is notable because it is founded by a supposedly notable academic, and Ferrada de Noli is notable because he founded SWEDHR, which is highly circular. If WP editors with experience in determining the notability of academics conclude that Prof. Ferrada de Noli's academic work is not sufficient for notability, then I propose that this page be deleted and any relevant information about him be folded into the SWEDHR page, which has already been rewritten to indicate that it is actually a propaganda organization
— User:Gamesmasterg9, 23:54, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)