Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Derek Croxton

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The result of the debate was keep. — Trilobite 03:54, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Derek Croxton

Delete, nonnotable historian. "Independent researcher" is a euphemism for "unemployed academic", so he's not even a professor. Only link from article space to this article is from his coauthor Anuschka Tischer. Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 06:52, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Galenet's Contemporary Authors Online lists him indicating some level of notability for him as an author and his book. Capitalistroadster
• Weak Keep. Like his co-author, just about notable and encyclopedic. - mholland 15:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete for reasons cited above in Tischer VfD. Dottore So 16:27, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Capitalistroadster. Kappa 00:14, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Ladies and gentlemen: this PhD lad, together with Anuschka Tischer, is one of the two people that most know about the Congress of Westphalia, one of the most important congresses of History. For those familiar with International Relations literature, the Congress/Peace/Treaty of Westphalia is cited in practically every single text, it´s practically a cliché. If you want reviews from the book they co-author, check here. And if there are two people that understand the Congress, they are Derek Croxton and Anuschk Tischer. Cheers. Doidimais Brasil 04:17, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Hi Doidimais Brasil, as you created both pages for these authors and seem to know about them, do you think you could put up a reference to any work on them? If there are such works, I will join you in voting "strong keep". Currently however, the only sources you cite are their CV and some online reviews about their book. If the article was about The Peace of Westphalia: A Historical Dictionary, then such a source is acceptable, but you are writing biographies about them, as people, and so we would need sources on them to satisfy the requirements of WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NOR. For an example of a well-sourced and referenced article about a person, see here.—encephalonέγκέφαλος  08:22:07, 2005-09-10 (UTC)

Wikipedia uses Derek Croxton as source on article John Cabot, for instance. I do believe that the links to reviews on their works hints at their importance on their field. Moreover, I´ve added one more external link to Croxton´s article. Cheers. Doidimais Brasil 18:11, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

• keep as per Tischer VfD. Angr, I completely agree that academics in general are not notable as such, but some good historians have hovered around the fringes of academia while writing notable books, so I'm inclined to take the word of F. da Silva (aka Doidimais_ that this book is a standard in the field.---CH (talk) 03:48, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

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