Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garin Burbank

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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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:30, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Garin Burbank

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The subject is a professor who has no particular importance. I don't think this article could be expanded and is a stub of a rather obscure and unimportant individual. JGGardiner 19:55, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Speedy Delete CSD A7, no assertion of notability... also a borderline CSD G11 for being a vanity page . Being a professor in it of itself is not notable Rackabello 20:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Weak Delete Unless some of these claims can be verified. Shouldn't have listed this as a speedy, I initially got the impression that this was a vanity page Rackabello 05:57, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Fails academics test.Obina 20:40, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete , see below. Weak Keep, certainly not a speedy-- saying someone is a professor at a major university is a clear assertion of notability--I've declined the speedy. As for actual notability, I need to check on publications etc.--can the nom. tell me where he looked to conclude he was of no particular importance so I don't duplicate? If there was ever a non-vanity page, this is it--it doesn't even list all the publications!! Vanity pages for faculty typically list everything down to minor conference presentations, and awards back to their high school days. If it turns out that the book mentioned is the only book, then it would be non-notable. DGG 22:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
I thought that I pretty looked hard (for an internet search) but could only find the one book and relatively little else actually. He has no page at the university. A search of his university's library catalogue is here[1] It only shows the one book. A few articles, commentaries and speeches as well. I checked Library of Congress and it just turns up the one book. Praeger, which published that book has only it listed in their catalogue online. I checked JSTOR, booksellers. I'm not sure where else I'd look. --JGGardiner 22:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, he does have a page at the university, here[2]. It mentions only the one book. --JGGardiner 23:07, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless independent sources for notability are found. Google News Archive has some results ... apparently, for his high-school baseball career. Nothing on his book(s), though. --Dhartung | Talk 23:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I've added what I could find on the web, except for several book reviews he wrote and i don't think there will be much else, except for citations of his major book. He's the previous generation that doesn't have a web page, but I am not sure how much more would be on it. The University of Winnipeg is not a research university in any sense. Judging from the wikipedia entry, it's an urban undergraduate commuter college, greatly overshadowed by the University of Manitoba, of which it was once a part. Even full professors at such colleges are not necessarily notable.
In this case, he has written one important book, and little else. That's probably not enough, though the book might be separately notable. I cannot document later right-wing political activity as presented in the article--that is a little odd. Perhaps something will turn up as the Afd continues it's full time.DGG 02:30, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Keep He has significant publications in his field. Dogru144 17:55, 30 June 2007 (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.