Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Smelcer
I don't understand how this can be anything other than keep.  There are numerous reliable sources to the Anchorage Daily News, clearly a reliable newspaper. He one two literary prizes that, though not terribly important, are at least university-level important.  Finally, he holds a named chair, which is criteria 5 on |the professor test. Now, I don't actually ''agree'' with that professor test, but I've been told before that it's practically non-negotiable--that the simple fact that one is a named chair indicates that one's university finds one to be notable, and that named chairs are generally recognized across academia as a mark of notability.  So we have the person meeting several points in , and meeting .  What is the deletion rationale
— User:Qwyrxian, 06:48, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)