Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Graham Goodlad


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 18:12, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Graham Goodlad

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Does not appear to meet WP:BIO; PROD removed without comment in the past. Article has generated a complaint to OTRS (OTRS users can read it at 2009100210029967). Stifle (talk) 15:12, 16 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - has written numerous books that are cited by peers meeting notability standards of WP:Author. See GScholar hits. (GregJackP (talk) 16:29, 16 February 2010 (UTC))
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  --  Ray  Talk 18:49, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete Gscholar cites are not sufficient for WP:PROF IMO, worldcat holdings are a little on the sparse side for WP:AUTHOR - his most popular book, British foreign and imperial policy, 1865-1919 is held in about 85 libraries or so. Ray  Talk 18:53, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. What was the OTRS complaint about? If the author wants delete then I support. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:39, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Marginal notability per WP:PROF and the only article space link is from a dab page. No loss of context for other articles. It's also unsourced. Pcap ping  02:39, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Of course it is sourced. Look at GS, GB, GN. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:55, 17 February 2010 (UTC).
 * It may be sourceable, but it surely isn't sourced beyond the self-verifying ISBNs for the books he has written. Pcap ping  02:57, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps I'm searching for the wrong name, but neither "GD Goodlad" nor "Graham Goodlad" return much citations. The same goes for google scholar. Pcap ping  03:02, 17 February 2010 (UTC)


 * There are two questions here: (a) Is the article sourced? (b) Do these sources confer notability? The answer to (a) is Yes, by the GS and GB hits. The answer to (b) is to be determined by this AfD. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:14, 18 February 2010 (UTC).
 * Huh? Like I said above, I don't see much in the way of citations for his books. Perhaps I'm searching wrong. Can you post the citation counts you get for his books? Pcap ping  04:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, goog news has articles written by him for History Review, e.g. . Did you find anything about him? Pcap ping  04:37, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  --  Ray  Talk 18:36, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete due to borderline notability. I cannot comment on the OTRS complaint since I have no idea what it entails, but if it involved a request for a takedown of this article then make it a Supreme delete.   JBsupreme  ( talk ) 04:35, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions.  -- Pcap  ping  08:13, 18 February 2010 (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.