Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Elsie

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 of the debate was keep. Mailer Diablo 01:21, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Elsie

• delete. this linguist is not notable enough Mayumashu 07:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. I added a bunch of books he's published. Scholarly titles of presumably limited circulation, but legitimate in-print titles. Publishing several books makes notable, comfortably. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 07:49, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep Thanks Lulu Nick Catalano (Talk) 08:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Lulu. Ruby 08:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

that helps. now there just needs an intro paragraph to say why he is encyclopedic, not where he went to uni Mayumashu 08:17, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Well, yeah. It definitely needs cleanup... but vote the topic, not the article as it exists. I had never heard of him, but it didn't take too much work to get book info from Amazon. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 08:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Several books with respectable publishers. u p p l a n d 08:41, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I will vote to keep (although it seems unnecessary since my vote will likely be outweighed) if Millosh could explain why this fellow deserves an encyclopedia entry. (vote withdrawn) Is he a notable expert on Albanian culture and ethno-linguistics? The publications do not seem impressive enough to warrant an article for their author. Eusebeus 15:27, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Six books (listed, there are a couple others) doesn't seem notable?! Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 18:22, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Meets normal standards for significance. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:43, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep seems to meet WP:BIO Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 21:20, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Robert Elsie is one of the most important contemporary albanologist. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 01:04, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: Looking at his publications on google scholar, I note his work has been cited by others a total of seven times. I don't think merely publishing lots of books ought to make one notable; the books themselves have to meet some threshold of notability (which is why we don't count vanity presses). In this case, with seven citations, it doesn't look like any reasonable threshold is met to me. --Pierremenard 03:09, 1 February 2006 (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.