Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roberta Gilchrist

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 (closed by non-admin). RMHED (talk) 00:35, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Roberta Gilchrist

Roberta Gilchrist (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

I dont see anything notable about this, so I AFDed it. Plus there is the case of WP:VER. UzEE!! 00:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

A note to nom: If you felt there were insufficient indicators of notability, Wikipedia:Deletion_policy and Wikipedia:Guide to deletion both recommend tagging, or actually "first do the necessary homework and look for sources yourself". Given the ease I had finding sources that clearly indicate notability, and your nom which says "I dont see anything notable", this suggests you didn't do any homework. It will probably take less of your time, and less of other editors' time, if you do homework before and instead of unnecessary AFDs. --Lquilter (talk) 13:12, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak keep - It looks like the books aren't self-published, so I think the notability concerns are just due to lack of sources. I'd like to see this tagged with the appropriate notability and source warnings for a couple weeks before AfD. Torc2 (talk) 00:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
    • comment - Upgrading based on Mind meal's information. She's obviously not just an author, but has been quoted by several other authors. Torc2 (talk) 02:32, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep Published author of books and academic essays. See http://books.google.com/books?q=%22Roberta+Gilchrist%22&btnG=Search+Books (Mind meal (talk) 02:29, 3 February 2008 (UTC))
  • Keep Very clearly notable specialized author.DGG (talk) 08:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - A two-second search on google scholar [1] showed many citations; for instance, Gender and Material Culture was cited by 62 others. Starting at page seven of the cites for Gilchrist are cites that mention Gilchrist's work in a way that Google didn't pick up in its citation counts. That goes on for 450+ total cites, and my spot-check of several of those pages put them in the same field so likely the same person. --Lquilter (talk) 13:12, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, prominent archaeologist - Skysmith (talk) 12:55, 6 February 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.