Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/R G C Levens

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[edit] R G C Levens

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Speedy deletion for lack of assertion of notability was overturned, so Mr. Levens gets a full run at AfD now. Procedural listing, I have no opinion. ~ trialsanderrors 00:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep for now to allow a reasonable time for expansion and establishment of notability. There's a big difference between a clearly non-notable person and a potentially notable one. Newyorkbrad 00:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable published author. The listings for the books do not include ISBN because they were first published before the introduction of the ISBN. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 00:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Not that ISBNs are 100% reliable proof of a book's existence anyway, but at least one of the books mentioned does have a ISBN[1][ Bwithh 05:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. If kept, maybe it should be moved, either to his full name or to R. G. C. Levens. —EdGl 01:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
    Spaced initials without periods is per typical British usage, as opposed to American English which would include the periods. I have located nothing in WP:MOS speaking to this issue, though there appears to have been a tentative proposal to include the periods and most articles do. In notable cases both conventions are supported, e.g. J R R Tolkien redirects to J. R. R. Tolkien. Newyorkbrad 02:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Stubbiness is not evidence of non-notability. If all past article stubs had been deleted on the basis that they didn't yet assert notability, Wikipedia would have almost no content today. dryguy 04:02, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Failure of WP:PROF and failure to assert substantive encyclopedic notability (even stubs should do this). The only insubstantive attempt made is the claim that he edited a classroom version of a speech or speeches by Cicero. A search of the Oxford library catalog turns up only the two books mentioned in the article plus a brief Greek translation of a Shakespeare scene he did as a student to win a student prize. Google Books (Oxford University Library is one of the 9 library partners of this project) returns 37 hits but no books by him. Of the 37 hits (some of them are inaccessible), I can only find one which is more than a passing mention or footnote[2] (no hits for his full name) Bwithh 05:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. So many people are involved in writing textbooks it isn't funny, and it definitely doesn't make them notable. -Amarkov blahedits 06:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete fails WP:PROFC.lettinga 06:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - fails WP:PROF as well as BIO... SkierRMH,06:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Vicarious 07:15, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per SkierRMH Akihabara 14:45, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
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