Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fernando Bermúdez Ardila


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The result was delete. Only two explicit delete !votes (nominator and John Pack Lambert), but the other two comments are also heavily sceptical. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 05:57, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Fernando Bermúdez Ardila

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Non-notable person. The single source in the article is unreliable. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:33, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The statement "nominated by DET NORSKE NOBEL INSTITUTT, for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010" raises red flags. Firstly the Norwegian Nobel Institute does not nominate people for Nobel prizes but receives nominations from others, and secondly the names of nominees are not released until 50 years later. The fact that such a blatantly false and unverifiable claim is made in the first paragraph casts doubt over the rest of the content. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 10:56, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete The article is weak and lacks adequate sourcing. Some of its text shouts out that the subject is unnotable, or at least the writer(s) of the article don't know what they are saying. It mentions "33 unpublished works". If they literally mean that Bermúdez has 33 works sitting around in his house or in a file somewhere that are unknown to the public, than this not only is trivial but can not add to notability. A work needs to be made public, that is published, to positively effect ones notability. However, the method of making such works public varries. 14 works for a historian and writer is very low. Jay H. Buckley, a professor I had at BYU who head's the Native American Studies program at that university, and who I have debated creating an article on, but am holding back until his Comparative history of 19th-century American andSouth Africa, his book on interpreting Native American languages and A Fur Trade History of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies come out. The last of those three is the only one he has identified a press that is publishing it. Buckley lists 96 publications on his curriculum vitae, not counting in progress works. He only got his Ph.D. in 2001, and graduated from high school in 1988 (he included that date on his vitae). I think he turned 35 in 2004 (that is when I had him as a professor). That all works together. So he is almost 47, so is probably near the start of his scholarly life. A good portion of those 96 publications are book reviews, but that is still published works. 14 is a workable amount if they are impactful, but I see no evidence that they are in Bermúdez's case. John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:09, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:34, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Colombia-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:34, 9 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment: I wondered about putting this up for deletion when I came across it to tag it with WikiProjects. You'd have thought that if someone really had "over 250 national and international award nominations" that there'd be mention of at least a few of them on the internet... Richard3120 (talk) 16:56, 9 September 2016 (UTC)


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