Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Professor Derek walker

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The result was keep and move to Derek Walker. — CharlotteWebb 00:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Professor Derek walker

This article seems to be created by a single-user account, is POV, and unsourced. Violates WP:BLP

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd 19:10, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. His role in the planning of Milton Keynes appears to be overstated; he is not one of the six founding fathers listed in Milton Keynes Development Corporation. If he is just the head city architect for a city of 250k, rather than the original architect and planner of the city, that doesn't seem so notable. Head of Architecture at the Royal College of Art seems to be enough to pass WP:PROF for me, though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by David Eppstein (talk • contribs) 19:28, 12 February 2007 (UTC).
• Delete unless sourced if the article gets reliable sources by the time the afd expires, I'd support a keep. i kan reed 19:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
• Comment. I've added two books to the article, but havent been able to find a source the "Head of Architecture" statement. John Vandenberg 21:33, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

• Reliable source that Walker is/was a prof. at the RCA and a former Trustee of the Royal Armories. Highly unreliable source that he was head (doesn't even give the correct name for the RCA). —David Eppstein 21:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

David , just what journal is that? I have access, but only through the journal name. DGG 07:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I dont have access, but google has two hits for "Derek Walker" "Royal College of Art" site:jstor.org, and only one for "Professor Derek Walker" in the The Burlington Magazine. John Vandenberg 08:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

It's an editorial entitled "Royal Armouries plc" in Burlington Magazine (1994), vol. 136, no. 1091, p. 67. The specific sentence is "The architects of the building, including Professor Derek Walker of the Royal College of Art, a former Trustee of the Royal Armouries, have produced a dispiriting model: ..." —David Eppstein 08:32, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 16:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. Several book sources verify that Walker was the first Chief Architect of Milton Keynes from 1970 to 1976, very notable in the context of one of Britain's most important planned communities. --Dhartung | Talk 21:44, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep -- sources in the article and noted in this AfD sufficiently demonstrate notability. -- Black Falcon 22:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep -- Seems to have been sourced for notability now. --Falcorian ^(talk) 23:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep -- Seems to be notable. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 00:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep--sourced in major professional magazine.(and could have been sourced properly initially.) DGG 11:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

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