Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Riesman

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The result was keep/withdrawn. Well, the articles definitely need to be improved, but I'll take all of your words for it that the book and person are notable. —Cuiviénen 17:31, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] David Riesman

David Riesman (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

with The Lonely Crowd (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Author and lawyer, doesn't seem to quite meet notability requirements. Tagged as unreferenced for over a month with no edits whatsoever, but really the lack of references makes it difficult for me to see notability. Google and Amazon don't turn up much. Also nominating The Lonely Crowd, the article on his book that reads like a book review and has also been untouched for a while. Neither seems to manage notability, though I'd be happy to see otherwise. —Cuiviénen 06:00, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - The book was influential and popular in its day; the title has been re-used as well. --Orange Mike 16:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Looks like he was quite notable, espeically from his book. [1] (ref inserted into article) --Oakshade 22:38, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy keep- This book is a biggie in academia - I am too lazy to find citations at the moment but I assure you 3/4 of my classmates in different disciplines in college had to read this thing.--Dmz5 06:24, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Speedy keep per Dmz5 DGG 06:47, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

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