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I very recently closed afd 1 as delete but the creating editor has provided a new version. The sourcing appears substantially the same kind of not quite there stuff but a real effort has been made to expand the test so it only seems fair to have another discussion on the new sources.
SpartazHumbug!15:52, 16 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Book reviews and local news items are not really enough imo to pass the
WP:GNG. His works contribute to notability by others not necesserily add to his own. However, you found extra stuff and it should be looked at.
SpartazHumbug!15:57, 16 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Actually book reviews of this sort do contribute to notability. A biography is about the life and the works of a person, and the sources like
JSTOR41372216 go into significant depth on the work. It's a pity that they've been sorely mis-used to justify vague handwaves about "well received" (Wilton's review is rather critical of tone, organization, and even print quality) and the works are just a laundry list. Book reviews in journals such as the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts are not Amazon astroturfing, and can be used to actually write prose about the works of the subject, based upon expert sources. We can even identify the expert author, again completely unlike Amazon. It was Andrew Wilton, former Keeper of British Art at the
Tate Gallery.
And that's just one of the reviews.
Luke Herrmann tells us who one of the other experts is. As such not only is this a stub this is a stub with scope for further expansion on the works of the biography subject from expert sources already (now) cited. The only question is why on Earth these weren't cited 5 years ago. It would have saved a lot of bother all around. This is why one always cites sources from the start.
Bearian's rationale held as little water then, when "Google, blogs, and archives" was preceded by people pointing to journal articles on JSTOR and pointing to specific articles in specific newspapers and not even mentioning Google and archives at all, as it does now. It would seem that neither of you even looked at the sources cited in the AFD discussion then, and in the article now.
Uncle G (
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05:12, 18 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. The sheer number of citations from journal articles that discuss Wilkonson's work is enough for the subject to pass the GNG.
Drmies (
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16:01, 17 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I'm not sure that the Fellowship mentioned above counts as the top-of-the-profession kind of recognition that is needed for
WP:PROF#C3, but
WP:AUTHOR is met by way of book reviews (which, in a book-oriented corner of scholarship, is also a spiritual pass of
WP:PROF#C1, as it were).
XOR'easter (
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20:51, 17 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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