Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwight D. Murphey


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The result was   delete. T. Canens (talk) 05:01, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Dwight D. Murphey

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No proof of notability; only reference given is a letter to the editor written by the subject himself. Stonemason89 (talk) 16:44, 2 June 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:19, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:59, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. Almost a speedy delete. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  19:36, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. I completely rewrote the article. It's still self-sourced, but it gives a much more plausible claim of notability (he is the author of nine books, not counting the self-published ones, not just the single NYT editorial mentioned in the earlier version of the article). —David Eppstein (talk) 23:48, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
 * weak Keep I;ve added the books.  gthey seem to be more in the nature   of college-level  education books than research works, and they are not bey any of the major scholarly social science publishers, but together with his professional position I thin it is just enough to establish him as meeting wp:prof.    DGG ( talk ) 07:08, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per DGG. He apppears barely to be a notable professor.  Although now retired, once notable, always so. Disclosure: I was an editor/reviewer for 2 editions of the Brown, Sukys Business Law textbook. Bearian (talk) 17:20, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Relisting comment. The article is a BLP so a few more comments would be helpful. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:21, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm utterly bemused by DGG's "I;ve added the books", as he has not, so far as I can tell, edited the article at all. The book publications by this person that I can identify are a couple of monographs published by the University Press of America. All (or almost all) of his other works were published in a single journal (The Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies) or by the publisher of that journal (the Council for Social and Economic Studies). WP:PROF lists nine criteria for inclusion, and I'm seeing no evidence that this fellow meets any of them. Deor (talk) 04:08, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. I can't find evidence that he has made an academic impact (such as heavily cited publications), and I can't find evidence that his books are making an education impact (such as syllabi that list them). So I am skeptical that he passes WP:PROF. That leaves the race-related news stories, but keeping our article on this basis would amount to stating that he's notable as a racist (or at least as a curmudgeon with an unfortunate consistency to his activism). I don't think that what we have on him (a few local news stories and one high-profile editorial that only briefly mentions him) is enough to make that conclusion. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:39, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
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