Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David D. Cole


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The result was   keep. postdlf (talk) 02:08, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

David D. Cole

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While Cole is a legal scholar quoted very often in newspapers, I have been unable to find a single third-party source that discusses Cole himself in any detail. Our current article is entirely based on primary sources plus a single passing mention in his university's student newspaper. That's not enough to meet either WP:PROF or WP:BIO. Huon (talk) 02:07, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Automatic keep under Wikipedia:scholar because he holds an endowed chair at Georgetown University See WP:PROF criterion 5.ShulMaven (talk) 02:30, 2 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep: "a legal scholar quoted very often in newspapers", named chair. Obvious meet of WP:ACADEMIC. --Randykitty (talk) 20:43, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Speedy keep. Named professorship, plus plenty of sources covering him personally in detail (I added a couple of such sources to the article). Hard to see how the nominator could not find those. Here is a sample quote from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression citation for the William Brennan Award "Georgetown University Law Center Professor [David Cole] is one of the nation’s most accomplished advocates for freedom of expression and an outstanding scholar of the First Amendment. As an attorney, Cole has litigated a number of major First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which established that flag burning was protected under the First Amendment, and National Endowment of the Arts v. Finley, which challenged the constitutionality of content restrictions on federal art funding." No need to go further. Passes both WP:BIO and WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - I don't think an ACLU press release about their own activities is considered a reliable third-party source. If there's any third-party coverage of the award he received, as opposed to coverage by the organization bestowing the award, I haven't found it - and apparently neither have you. I agree Cole sounds as if there should be quite a bit of third-party coverage. I haven't seen any, though, nor has anybody here presented any. Huon (talk) 01:51, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
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