User talk:Mkamrath

June 2022
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Hi Mkamrath! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor&#32;at Mark Kamrath that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 23:04, 18 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that.
 * Thanks for sharing the protocol. Mark Kamrath (talk) 23:21, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of Mark Kamrath for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Mark Kamrath is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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 * Yes, understand all.
 * Thanks Mkamrath (talk) 21:19, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi @Mkamrath! Sorry you've had your article end up at Articles for Deletion. As an English professor you might be more likely to meet the guidelines of WP:NAUTHOR than WP:NACADEMIC - typically, people are considered to meet that guideline if they have published two books that meet WP:NBOOK. Since academic book reviews count towards item #1, "the subject of two or more non-trivial works", it's reasonably common (relative to the WP:NACADEMIC criteria) for people in English literature to meet this by the time they're full professors, by writing two sole-authored books that get 2+ reviews each. Is it possible you meet these criteria instead? If you don't for solo-authored works, I think there's an argument to be made for the edited works of Charles Brockden Brown counting towards this. Regarding your comment about other academic bios that seem to contain less in terms of research/impact, if they're in really bad shape you might consider nominating them for deletion yourself (or suggest them to me and I can try it). But it may also be that they do actually meet the inclusion guidelines, which can seem pretty arcane and arbitrary at times. -- asilvering (talk) 23:57, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your helpful advice.
 * Yes, I am a full professor and I have one monograph, 2 essay collections, and 2 MLA-CSE approved scholarly volumes. I am also the General Editor for the Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition, an international editing project. I don't know of anyone who has received 3 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants. Google Scholar shows 233 citations for my work https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C10&q=Mark+Kamrath&btnG=
 * Anyway, I am glad to follow whatever path you think best.
 * P.S. I recently completed (by invitation) for Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature its entry for Charles Brockden Brown, meaning that I am the person they wanted to critique the last 50 years of Brown scholarship https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0066.xml Brown, by the way, is one of the most closely studied authors now in American literature. Please see the Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown (2019) Mark Kamrath (talk) 00:37, 18 June 2022 (UTC)