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233:- To the commenters claiming Rancourt is only listed in Tabloids, Ottawa Citizen is the largest newspaper in Canada's capital. Also, the stories run about Rancourt in the paper have been fairly major. Rancourt has also been covered on CBC (Canada's largest News network 195:- His references section does show that he's been covered in various 3rd party sources, but at the moment, I can't look at those particular pages to verify whether the coverage is enough for him to pass the notability standards. 136:. Has this article been deleted before and then remade? I don't know how to find out... But anyway, I don't see how this is a noteworthy guy, even if he was talked about in the offbeat section of a bunch of local papers. 278: 392:
finds one paper on which he is first author with 164 citations, & many others with respectable citations. His physics research could do with being mentioned in the article.
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Ah, you wrote this while I was concluding the opposite -- which do you think are false positives? The ones I looked at were all at the University of Ottawa.
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to his activism work. Overall, what I found at Google News suggests notability, though some of the articles are in French and Spanish.
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http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=de6a54bf-802a-23ad-45ed-60ae6f3febe2
255:). The Rancourt case has also recently come under a rare review from the Canadian Association of University Teachers ( 49: 418: 398: 361: 36: 417:
Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
325:. A Google Scholar search, after removal of false positives, does not yield enough citations for him to pass 234: 403: 366: 346: 316: 293: 268: 225: 204: 183: 165: 145: 61: 170:
Nice, thanks a lot. The article was speedy deleted and that was then overturned after this conversation:
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070514.wxlanarchist14/BNStory/lifeWork/home
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2006/11/27/activism.html#skip300x250
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of his anarchist activism does seem to indicate enough notability under
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http://www.thefulcrum.ca/news/laboratory-lockout,-caut-review-rancourt
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241:.... Don't see why Rancourt would be seen as 'not noteworthy' 279:
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Additionally, I believe his physics work might well meet
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17:26, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
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