Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frank Ebersole


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The result was  Keep, the delete rationales are very poor. (non-admin close) RMHED (talk) 19:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Frank Ebersole

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Non-notable &mdash; G716  &lt;T·C&gt; 18:42, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Article is of low quality, and has no importance. DeadmanUndertaker 18:45, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 18:47, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep.The article states that Ebersole has served on the Editorial board of the philosophy journal, Philosophical Investigations (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford). See also Google Scholar results.--Eastmain (talk) 14:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Being member of the Ed Board of one single journal is in itself not very notable, unless it is the board of a major journal (and in that case one is likely to be on several boards anyway). I am not familiar enough with this field to judge what is the case here. --Crusio (talk) 19:08, 2 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep Chairman of the Dept of Philosophy at U. Oregon. I agree about the editorial board--although this is a major journal, it's just the 13 member "Advisory editorial board", which does not really count for much. The publications need to be looked at, though. Full name is Frank B. Ebersole. I see even in GS about 12 strong papers in major journal--but they're from the 1950's, so he low citations (30 total)  in a field like this dont mean much, & so other indexes need to be used to check on citations.  In worldcat I see 2 major books: Ebersole, F. B. (1979). Meaning and saying: essays in the philosophy of language. Washington: University Press of America. and Ebersole, F. B. (1979). Language and perception: essays in the philosophy of language. Washington: University Press of America, each in over a hundred libraries. But the article does have a PR tone about it. DGG (talk) 01:10, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Seems to meet WP:ACADEMIC. The article is of low quality but that is not enough to delete. The subject is at least potentially notable. ~ Antiselfpromotion (talk) 17:01, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


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