Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik Thorbecke


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Withdrawn by nominator. Thank you all for your feedback. JFHJr (㊟) 21:25, 2 June 2024 (UTC) (non-admin closure) JFHJr (㊟) 21:25, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Erik Thorbecke

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This subject fails WP:GNG and WP:NACADEMIC. His most noteworthy work is a collaboration with two others. Any reliably sourced biographical information about him belongs there maybe. This article was a puff piece before I removed most primary sourcing. It seems few or no unrelated third parties have lent him substantial in-depth coverage. JFHJr (㊟) 17:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. JFHJr (㊟) 17:33, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Economics, Netherlands, California, Iowa,  and New York.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  17:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. Meets WP:NACADEMIC. His professorship is a named professorship and likely endowed. Co-creator of Foster–Greer–Thorbecke indices; the originating paper has almost 9000 cites on GScholar. 21k cites and h-index of 48. One of the chapters in Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke is a biography. A conference was held in his honor. Jfire (talk) 19:09, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly meets WP:Prof. (Msrasnw (talk) 20:35, 2 June 2024 (UTC))
 * Keep. Obvious pass of WP:PROF and #C5. Before nominating for deletion, the nominator removed sourced information relevant to notability, including an honorary doctorate, two conferences held in his honor, and a claim to have written "over 25 books and monographs". Following up on that last claim, searching JSTOR finds 37 published reviews of his books, an overwhelming pass of WP:AUTHOR (presumably as usual more are to be found from other sources as well). Beyond being an abject failure of WP:BEFORE, the nominator's removal of indicia of notability and then claiming without justification that the notability is not present, while presumably well-intentioned, is not how we should be operating. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:21, 2 June 2024 (UTC)


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