Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desmond Keegan


 * 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 keep. Nominator has withdrawn (non-admin closure) AmericanAir88(talk) 00:55, 31 August 2019 (UTC)

Desmond Keegan

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I found nothing that shows notability per WP:PROF. SL93 (talk) 19:33, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:35, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ireland-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 19:35, 30 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Weak keep. I only found two reviews of one of his books on JSTOR ( and, not counting three reviews of edited volumes), not enough to convince me of a pass of WP:AUTHOR. But founding a journal in 1980, from a major publisher and still going today, looks like a pass of WP:PROF to me. The article needs serious cleanup to trim it from a cv-like listing of all minor accomplishments to an actual article, but that's not what AfD is for. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:18, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. The article mentions that in 1979 he founded the journal Distance Education. At the webpage of this journal he is listed as an 'Executive Editor Emeritus'. That presumably means that in the past he was the Executive Editor, which for this journal is the same as editor-in-chief. The journal is indexed by Scopus and WebofScience, and has an impact factor listed in Science Citation Reports (1.729 for 2018, and the 5-year impact factor of 2.844). So possibly satisfies WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 21:41, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. As I noted above, I think there is a reasonable case here for passing WP:PROF. Also, citability in GScholar is impressive. The h-index is around 25, with 6 publications having over 200 citations each. The top-cited publication, his solo-authored 1986 book Foundations of distance education, has 3670 citations. (By the way, I found another review of that book .) For social sciences, that's quite good. Overall, and also taking into account the journal editorship, I think there is enough to to satisfy WP:PROF. Nsk92 (talk) 22:00, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment: I would like to withdraw this per the keeps above, but I don't know how to close AfDs. SL93 (talk) 22:07, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Your statement that you would like to withdraw should already be enough. Someone should be around to close this shortly. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)


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