Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gillian King


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:57, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Gillian King

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

The article provides no indication of the subject's notability. I didn't find any coverage of the subject in independent reliable sources.

Based on the citation counts of a sample of the published articles that I checked and the lack of independent coverage, she doesn't seem to meet either WP:GNG or WP:ACADEMIC. Rentier (talk) 06:35, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Archaeology-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Zeke, the Mad Horrorist  (Speak quickly) (Follow my trail) 10:00, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete. I haven't been able to find any indication she meets WP:PROF or the WP:GNG. Also, none of the biographical information in the article is sourced, which is problematic for a BLP. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 16:05, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:PROF and WP:GNG. Totally lacks any WP:RS and I can't find any. - GretLomborg (talk) 19:22, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. After finding an archived copy of the only source for the text of the article (a deadlink), I discovered that it's also a copyvio — "She spent 15 years at Oxford and five years at the South African Museum in Cape Town" is a direct quote from the source. In any case, although there are enough citations to her works to make a plausible case for WP:PROF (Google scholar shows three publications cited over 100 times and h-index = 17), there just isn't enough sourcing and content to make an adequate article about the subject. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:00, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sources inadequate. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:11, 30 June 2017 (UTC).
 * Comment. Curiously, at least one of the references refers to Gary King, who I presume is a completely different person. Rentier (talk) 00:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
 * No, a mis-identification by the library with the microbiologist Gary M. King for one paper. However the first reference seems to be by a different Gillian King who was at Cambrige in 1976. StarryGrandma (talk) 20:17, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete sadly. She was an academic with a respectable developing career who left and went into administration and quality assurance. As a result there is not enough of an academic career to support an article, and people who contribute in administration and quality assurance don't get covered by publications. The large update in 2015 left out her book Reptiles and herbivory cited by 131 and the article does not have her current website. StarryGrandma (talk) 21:24, 1 July 2017 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.