Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Brewin

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 was Keep. Although the "deletes" by number outweigh the keeps, the keeps have used policy, have provided potential sources, and have provided valid rationale as to why this should be kept. Saying "delete per nom", when the nom is clearly neutral, is rather unhelpful. Keeper | 76 | Disclaimer 18:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Christopher Brewin

Christopher Brewin (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Procedural nom. Article was PRODed but I'm not sure a professor being deleted would be entirely uncontroversial. Reason on PROD was: "No evidence of meeting the threshhold of WP:PROF." As this is a procedural nom, I am neutral at this time. Redfarmer (talk) 22:27, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

• Comment. See some potential references at http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Christopher+Brewin%22 (not all of them are for this academic) and at http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Christopher+Brewin His books The European Union and Cyprus and Turkey and Europe After the Nice Summit show up on Google Scholar as having been cited by other scholars. At the same time, a quick scan of some newspaper archives didn't turn up any newspaper articles in the Guardian or the Daily Telegraph. --Eastmain (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 00:28, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Book Review Index has the following:

• The future of Turkish foreign policy. (Europe)(Book Review) Lenore G. Martin, Dimitris Keridis. International Affairs July 2004 v80 i4 p791-792
• The European Union and Cyprus. Joseph S. Joseph. International Affairs April 2002 v78 i2 p399(2)
• The European Union and Cyprus. (Review) Vassilis Fouskas. The International History Review Sept 2001 v23 i3 p740(3)
• The European Union and Cyprus. (Review) IOANNIS D. STEFANIDIS. Middle Eastern Studies July 2001 v37 i3 p222
• The Politics of Multiculturalism in the New Europe: Racism, Identity and Community. Adrian Favell. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies April 1998 v24 n2 p392(2)

Jfire (talk) 04:06, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete unless citations from reliable sources are added to comply with the verifiability policy. Stifle (talk) 19:10, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral. Some evidence of notability has been added since my original prod, but I still am not 100% convinved that it meets WP:PROF, and leave it to others to make that call. Pastordavid (talk) 20:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
• Weak keep Reviews of the books in major journals. Senior Lecturer is about equivalent to US Associate Professor, and is sometimes notable, sometimes not. I am a little concerned abou tthis nomination because the person is apparently an advocate of the pro-turkish position in the dispute. the Guardian or the Daily Telegraph do not establish or deny notability as an academic--perhaps the comment about them was ironic. DGG (talk) 22:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I don't fully understand the last sentence. I'm completely neutral on the Turkish position and this AfD in general, and I can find no evidence that Pastordavid, the person who placed the original PROD, has any bias towards the issue one way or the other. Redfarmer (talk) 12:43, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete I don't believe it meets WP:PROF. --Stormbay (talk) 17:20, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 08:02, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Delete I don't think he's meets WP:PROF, especially regarding "a significant and well-known academic work". Noble Story (talk) 08:19, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete per nom NN Dreamspy (talk) 16:06, 19 April 2008 (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.