Talk:Robert A. Doughty

Notability
Doughty does not appear to satisfy WP:NACADEMIC, with the possible exception of #2, if the Paul Birdsall Prize or the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize is considered a "highly prestigious academic award" (but see WP:PROF). Mathglot (talk) 06:25, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
 * As I've stated on my talk page; Birdsall is an early career award, and the named chair is a visiting position, but Morison is described as recognizing "not any one specific achievement, but a body of contributions in the field of military history, stretching over time and showing a range of scholarly work contributing significantly to the field." In addition, WP:NAUTHOR#4(c), about works having "won significant critical attention," should count as well, because those book reviews are independent, reliable, and secondary sources about the subject's contributions. (Wording lifted from this deletion discussion on the article Chung Chien-peng.) Perhaps restarting the discussion here will get other editors to opine, which is welcomed. Vycl1994 (talk) 07:06, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

Strange that this discussion is happening today, and tangential at best, but I landed here looking for info on Mike Doughty's dad, which has to be Robert. Assuming if this entire article is being questioned, there's no sense linking them together. And, I'd need advice on if a line in a memoir saying "my dad taught history at West Point and has a book named X" is ironclad enough for an article about a living person. CSZero (talk) 01:15, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * From what I can see on Google Books, it appears that the son's book A Book of Drugs mentions his father, including saying that he's written a book The Seeds of Disaster. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 15:30, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, he mentions his dad's book by name but never his parents' names. I assumed it's a liability thing on his end. Simple logic says since Robert wrote a book with the same title and all that, it's obvious they're related, but I don't know if that's good enough for Wikipedia standards around citing. In either case, as I said, if this article might get deleted anyhow, it might not be worth adding. I'm not sure "being the dad of a guy who had a nearly-famous band twenty years ago" adds to the notability of this article. CSZero (talk) 16:18, 6 April 2022 (UTC)