Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elmer Pendell


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The result was keep. Mz7 (talk) 19:22, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Elmer Pendell

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A potentially non-notable eugenicist. I am seeking consensus on this, as notability has been tagged since 2012, the issue is highly charged, and I'm genuinely on the fence. I have just added the best sources I could find, and I'm not sure they're enough for WP:GNG. (I seriously doubt WP:NPROF is viable as a criterion.) I am unable to verify the newspaper sources previously cited, though perhaps someone with access to more newspapers could. I genuinely welcome any comments. A speedy was quite reasonably declined back in 2012. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 17:55, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. My search on JSTOR turns up quite a few contemporary reviews of Pendell's books, including:     Google Books also turns up mentions of Pendell from more recently published work, including: The Darwin Effect (Master Books, 2014); Politics and Population Control (Greenwood Press, 2004); and Merchants of Despair (Encounter Books, 2012). I think this is enough to satisfy WP:NPROF/WP:NAUTHOR, although I welcome input from other editors. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 22:57, 14 August 2020 (UTC)


 * keep per comments of . I think these book reviews (thus secondary sources) are enough to establish notability. Would be great to add them to the article, maybe in a bibliography section. Walwal20 talk ▾ contribs 04:12, 15 August 2020 (UTC)


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