Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/C. J. Ball


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The result was keep. Star  Mississippi  15:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

C. J. Ball

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Notability. I don't think a single obit is enough to establish notability. TheLongTone (talk) 16:00, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and United Kingdom. Shellwood (talk) 17:56, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Perhaps in general a single obit wouldn't be enough to establish notability, but the obituary is in Nature, a reliable source, and calls him, "one of the recognised authorities in Assyriology". He's a clear pass of WP:AUTHOR. His 1899 book, Light from the East, or the Witness of the Monuments was reviewed in The Times, The Guardian, Church Times, Pall Mall Gazette, The Morning Post, and Athenaeum according to this advertisement. His book Chinese and Sumerian (1913) was reviewed in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archeology, The New China Review, Athenaeum, Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, The Expository Times, The Open Court, and I don't think this is an exhaustive list. Jahaza (talk) 18:41, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bible-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 21:09, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per the comments above. I will add that Ball's books, though 100+ years old, are widely held in libraries . Topshelver (talk) 02:51, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. -- Necrothesp (talk) 11:11, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. I agree with Jahaza that this many published reviews of multiple books is enough for WP:AUTHOR. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:33, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per those above. Best, GPL93 (talk) 22:27, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination, I'm convinced by the above.TheLongTone (talk) 13:10, 15 November 2022 (UTC)


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