Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Akinyele Umoja


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The result was keep. Consensus herein is for the article to be retained. North America1000 05:59, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Akinyele Umoja

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Non-notable educator tagged since August 2008. I do not see how .edu sites such as, and blogs could establish notability. GeoffreyT2000 ( talk,  contribs ) 01:21, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've nosed about Google some and I'm still undecided. I had trouble finding any news articles focused predominantly on him, although he is regularly mentioned in impressive contexts. He gets very nice coverage in three paragraphs in this article, which is a start at the least. But if good reviews of his work come out, or if enough citations can be gathered per WP:ACADEMIC, I might lean towards keep. ACADEMIC doesn't need the same type of coverage as GNG, so that allows some leeway in interpretation of sources. Yvarta (talk) 02:22, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kharkiv07  ( T ) 15:09, 7 April 2017 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 15:08, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep under WP:AUTHOR; multiple non trivial reviews & holdings: WorldCat Identities. Sample reviews:
 * We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement.. By Hughett, Amanda. Journal of African American History, Jan 01, 2016; Vol. 101, No. 1/2, p. 201-204


 * Umoja, Akinyele Omowale We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement New York: New York University Press 351 pp., $40.00, ... By Gritter, Elizabeth. History: Reviews of New Books, Jan 01, 2016; Vol. 44, No. 1, p. 5


 * FREEDOM AND FIREPOWER. By Morgan Ward, Jason. Reviews in American History, Jun 01, 2014; Vol. 42, No. 2, p. 341-345. A review of the book "We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom ... mor


 * We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. By Briley, Ron;McCutcheon, Camille. Journal of American Culture, Jun 01, 2014; Vol. 37, No. 2, p. 267-268


 * Akinyele Omowale Umoja. We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement. By Strain, Christopher. American Historical Review, Feb 01, 2014; Vol. 119, No. 1, p. 207-208
 * Review: ‘We Will Shoot Back’, The Clarion-Ledger
 * Overall, seems an important figure in African-American studies, see for example: History conference speaker says 1965 boycott became model for state".
 * K.e.coffman (talk) 23:13, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I've provided some reviews above. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:22, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Good research, I'm adding it to a Further reading section on the page. Yvarta (talk) 19:28, 19 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep per research and analysis by K.e.coffman, looks sufficient to my eyes as well. Yvarta (talk) 19:45, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Weak keep The citation count, etc., is not enough for notability as an academic, but K.e.coffman found several scholarly reviews of his works, and this makes him borderline notable in light of PROF/AUTHOR policies. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 07:24, 18 April 2017 (UTC)


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