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The result was redirect to habilitation. MBisanz ^talk 00:30, 6 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not convinced that "professor" as an academic degree (as opposed to a job title) exists. The only evidence provided (on the talk page and past revisions of the page) has been the odd CV or (auto)biographical faculty profile. These cannot be used as reliable sources about the existence and nature of the degree. What we require are references to national laws, or published university regulations, that establish the exact name of the degree and the requirements for conferring it. No one has been able to provide such a source in the six years this article has been in existence. (See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 October 1#Category:Professorial degrees.) Psychonaut (talk) 11:51, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:16, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:16, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Inadequately sourced. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:52, 29 August 2016 (UTC).[reply]
• Redirect to habilitation. Nobody has managed to find a good source for this in six years. I can't find any evidence such a degree exists separately in Poland or Germany, as claimed. The only mentions I've been able to find use as a translation of the habilitation or equivalent [1][2][3][4][5], which makes sense as it is a degree that qualifies one to be a professor, or the rare appearance of the word "professor" in Medieval degrees (e.g. Sacrae Theologiae Professor, considered to be equivalent to a doctorate). I suspect that's the usage that the article originally was supposed to cover, since the claim that professorial degrees exist separately to and "higher than a habilitation" was added without citation in 2012 Joe Roe (talk) 13:25, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to habilitation. I agree with Joe Roe - this is simply a translation of habilation into English, e.g. [6] and (ironically) [7] who was used as an example on the talk page 6 years ago! Robminchin (talk) 02:18, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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