Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David L. Richards


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The result was delete. bd2412 T 17:49, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

David L. Richards

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Fails WP:NACADEMIC. This is a stub of an article, with very little information and only a list of papers. This doesn't show that they've had a significant impact on their discipline, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources. Nor have they received a highly prestigious award. In fact, they appear to fail all criteria of NACADEMIC, which is why we are here. While the page has many sources, they are mainly just sources to the papers the professor has written, not independent sources. Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 17:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete. The strongest argument for notability seems to me to be that he cofounded the CIRI Human Rights Data Project, which is mentioned in the infobox but not in the article text; see this UConn Today article about the book he co-wrote (not cited in the article). I'm not sure that's enough. What tips me toward recommending deletion is that, saying he was the article subject, tried to have it deleted in 2016: blanking, speedy templating. (There were also photo substitutions by , who apparently said on Commons that she was Richards' wife.) In cases of marginal notability, we usually respect the subject's wishes. Things are complicated by suggestions that the article creator, , was Richards ... but I'm going to assume that if that was so, the subject had a change of heart about the article, and come down on the side of honoring the request. Since Daver68 has been notified of this discussion, I'll also drop notifications on the other two account talk pages in addition to my pings here. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I should note that per this AN thread, it appears that User:Mrdavid1729 is the article's subject (and simply lost their old account) and would very much like it deleted. Said thread is also the reason I opened this AfD in the first place. Captain Eek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment. There is a David L. Richards whose book Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900 has multiple reviews on JSTOR, but I strongly suspect he is a different person than the one described here. For instance this site describes the Poland Spring author as a 1997 graduate alum of the University of New Hampshire, at a time overlapping the subject's time as a doctoral student at Binghampton. The same search did not turn up any reviews of Violence Against Women and the Law, however. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:29, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is probably a case here for passing WP:PROF, based on GScholar citation results. However, there do not seem to be any other significant indicators of notability, and, since the subject has requested deletion in the AN thread linked above, I think we should respect his wishes here. Perhaps a redirect to CIRI Human Rights Data Project can be created afterwards. Nsk92 (talk) 19:36, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE and the borderline nature of the case for notability evident here. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:16, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete at subject's? request. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:52, 24 September 2019 (UTC).
 * Delete'. Marginal per WP:PROF/GNG plus subject preference for no article is a clear delete from me. Guy (help!) 23:32, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not enough source to establish notability. Barca (talk) 20:59, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete does not clearly pass any academic notability criteria.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:31, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per criteria 1 of WP:NACADEMIC. His work was critiqued and the main subject of the peer reviewed article "Response to David L. Richards", by Ann Marie Clark and Kathryn Sikkink, Human Rights Quarterly, May, 2016, Vol.38(2), p.493-496. There he was acknowledged for playing a critical role in maintaining the CIRI Human Rights Data Project, although it was critical of some of his interpretations of that data set in published peer reviewed journals. His work was also the central focus of the journal article Seeing Double: Human Rights Impact through Qualitative and Quantitative Eyes, Hafner-Burton, Emilie ; Ron, James, World Politics, 2009, Vol.61(2), pp.360-401. He has over 60 published peer reviewed journal articles in my university library, and there are many many more that cite his research. There are also three books to which he is a contributing author in my university library.4meter4 (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. I would appreciate re-evaluation from User:Yngvadottir, User:David Eppstein, User:Johnpacklambert, user:JzG. User:BarcrMac, User:Nsk92, and User:CaptainEek.4meter4 (talk) 19:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)


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