Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grant Hardy


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 20:10, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Grant Hardy

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Does not appear to be a notable scholar. I'm not seeing much coverage of him at all, and his highest cited Google Scholar work is cited by 37, which is low (about a third of what's average) for the top hit for a China scholar.  S ven M anguard  Wha?  18:23, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable. Shorthate (talk) 23:47, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep He has published many works and has made an impact within the area of his study. His scholarship on the Book of Mormon is notable and makes him worth having an article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:06, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If that were true, there would be reliable third party sources documenting the impact he had on the field, or giving plaudits for the book. His book on Mormanism has a Google scholar citation count of 7. The first book on the source list for the article Book of Mormon, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith, has a Google scholar count of 242. The second has 118. The third, 71. Obviously, different fields of study and different topics are going to have different benchmarks for how cited a work has to be before it can be considered a major piece in the field, but I can't think of a field where 7 means anything. As for his work on Chinese history, there I can speak from expertise, major works are going to have around 100 citations, minimum. Minor works by top scholars can see around 50. 37 is very low.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  00:35, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems to fail WP:PROF.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 14:44, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: Non-notable p  b  p  19:33, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
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