Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ESTORNES ZUBIZARRETA, Idoia (historian)

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. There's probably a good article waiting to be written on this historian, but it won't come out of this morass. Mackensen (talk) 15:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ESTORNES ZUBIZARRETA, Idoia (historian)

looks like nonsense, but probably isn't Will (^E_@) T 15:57, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete author doesn't seem to know the english language very well. Master of Puppets ^{FREE BIRD!} 16:20, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and recommend cleanup. She is a preeminent historian of the modern Basque region (Euskadi), and undoubtably not as well known to English speaking audiances as she should be. See, for example, the review of her 1990 book at Center for Basque Studies, Univ. of Nevada, Reno Bejnar 23:39, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
  • I accede Delete per Lukas Bejnar 02:32, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
• Trouble is that large parts of the article seem to be verbatim copies from just that review. Plus, the book it talks about is just a doctoral dissertation - even if it was a very good one and seminal within her narrow field of specialisation, I guess that alone would hardly make her a notable academic for our purposes here. I vote for delete in the present form, not least because of the apparent copyvio, but without prejudice - if someone can produce a better article with some more data on her career and importance for her field, that'll be fine. Lukas ^(T.|@) 15:15, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. It's a copyvio and almost unsalvageably incoherent anyway. Grandmasterka 19:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I'll spot you the copyvio, but there doesn't seem to be a notability problem. Could be a very herculean AfD save for *someone*. Wasn't there a time where we just removed the copyrighted text and didn't delete the article? I'd be willing to give the creator some time to clean this up. You guys seem to have the tagging of it under control. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 23:26, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.