Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gorgias Press


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The result was   keep. Per SNOW (non-admin closure) Alpha_Quadrant    (talk)  20:09, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Gorgias Press

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WP:NOTABILITY; no gnews hits beyond one-sentence mentions, generally noting them as publisher of a book. Sources currently on article include one such one-sentence mention, one two-sentence blog mention. Nat Gertler (talk) 04:30, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep 19,900 references to their publications in GScholar and many internal links within Wikipedia. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 05:01, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Is there precedence that notability for publications should confer upon the publisher? I'm looking at WP:GNG, which says "Significant coverage" means that sources address the subject directly in detail, and am unconvinced that addressing a publication, even in detail, is addressing the publisher directly. Listing of a publisher on a reference seems more like a database listing, but I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise. --Nat Gertler (talk) 05:17, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete per Nat's comment above. Notability is NOTINHERITED - publishing a notable book does not confer notability on the publisher, in the same way that being published by a notable publisher does not confer notability on a book. Yunshui (talk) 07:39, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Gorgias is a reputable academic press with excellent visibility in the academy, especially in the fields of Syriac, Aramaic, and other Biblical studies. The Gorgias Press entry should be filled out further to comply better with WP standards, but not deleted. --XKV8R (talk) 12:16, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * If WP is going to have articles on Brill, Eisenbrauns, Wageningen, and Eerdmans, then Gorgias should be welcome. --XKV8R (talk) 12:26, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but ITSNOTABLE and OTHERSTUFFEXISTS are not arguments for retention. Yunshui (talk) 12:27, 13 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Clearly a notable academic publisher - I agree with XKV8R regarding their high profile in the field. The many Google scholar citations and publications also support a keep. First Light (talk) 16:34, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep. An academic publisher is typically notable precisely because it publishes notable books and authors; WP:NOTINHERITED is of limited applicability in such circumstances, and has been rejected as grounds for deletion in similar past AFDs. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 19:53, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per all other keeps. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 19:56, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep per all other keeps aswell. Dontforgetthisone (talk) 23:20, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - Gorgias Press is indeed a notable academic publisher, especially in the field of Syriac Studies (in fact, one would be hard pressed to find a student of Syriac Studies who does not know of Gorgias Press). אמר Steve Caruso 04:13, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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