Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Durie


 * 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 delete. ✗ plicit  00:11, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

Bruce Durie

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Sourcing for the article about this genealogist and novelist is poor, and WP:BEFORE did not find me anything to add. References are mostly primary sources, apart from a deadlink to an article in the Herald, and article has been tagged as relying too much on primary sources since 2018. Tacyarg (talk) 09:49, 19 September 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  11:40, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Authors, History, United Kingdom,  and Scotland. Tacyarg (talk) 09:49, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Ref bombs, not much of anything found for sourcing. Delete. Oaktree b (talk) 12:55, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment -- Little in the way of independent sourcing. His personal website indicates he has edited three volumes of Retours of Heirs, which might contribute to notability, but is not enough on its own.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:29, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Comment Might he qualify under academic notability? What has been the impact of his work? Ian G. Macdonald in his 2018 book Referencing for Genealogists: Sources and Citation seems to give him some credit for influencing the field. He was the Honorary Editor of the journal The Irish Genealogist for six years, ending 2013. noted here. He regularly is asked to peer-review genealogy articles for the journal Genealogy. --Bejnar (talk) 16:11, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Comment He seems to be highly regarded in his field: 1, 2. I wonder if reviews of any of his works can be found? 𝕱𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖎𝖆 (talk) 05:41, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete I found only minor info, like a short review of one book, a longer book review in the Daily Record, a Daily Record newspaper article about him helping a crime writer dig up genealogical info. The journal which he is stated to have founded (but no source backs this up) is one of the many hundreds of MDPI journals, of which some have been questioned for quality. Of the links in the article, most do not support the statements in the page, and I removed most of them but eventually gave up. I found nothing to support the BIO information that was inappropriately referenced. I also removed links to his web site (as references) since that is mainly a sales page. Few of his books can be found in libraries in OCLC, although I did find some in the British Library. Note that the UK has a copyright deposit requirement so this doesn't indicate that the library showed an interest in purchasing the books. Lamona (talk) 02:52, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete This one appears to be an easy call. Poor sourcing and very dubious notability. Does not appear to meet the notability requirements for meriting a WP article. Go4thProsper (talk) 20:42, 30 September 2022 (UTC)


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