Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Florin Curta


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The result was   keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:38, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Florin Curta

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subject not notable and page lacks reliable sources. Upon research, subject seems to be a professor with an interest in medieval topics. He has authored a few books, but that is the closest to notability he comes. Whether that is notable enough or not is up for discussion Sesame  honey  tart  00:37, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep. GS h-index of 10 come close to passing WP:Prof for a historian. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:11, 9 December 2013 (UTC).
 * Delete doesn't meet WP:ACADEMIC. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 03:28, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per Xxanthippe's arguments. Jingiby (talk) 18:20, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep Curta meets WP:PROF rather more easily than his h-index suggests. His academic specialism - the early medieval history and archeology of the Balkans and adjoining parts of central Europe - is small enough that citation rates for academic papers are almost certain to be low, and his reputation currently seems to rest primarily on two books - The Making of the Slavs and South-eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 - which have been strongly cited (particularly in relation to their innovative views on Slavic origins) by medieval historians, such as Patrick J. Geary, Christopher Wickham and Peter Heather, specialising in other areas but writing survey works that need to cover south-eastern Europe and/or the early Slavs. (They are also cited in quite a few Wikipedia articles, though that doesn't count towards notability.) PWilkinson (talk) 12:40, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak keep per Xxanthippe. --Randykitty (talk) 12:55, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Three books published by British university presses indicates notability to me. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:35, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
 * not unless they are cited (which they are marginally). Xxanthippe (talk) 21:28, 15 December 2013 (UTC).
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