Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gregory Anderson (linguist)


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The result was keep. Tone 08:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Gregory Anderson (linguist)

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Likely autobiography. I have been reviewing a number of rather obvious sockpuppets adding cites to Anderson's work - this looks like self-promotion. Guy (help! - typo?) 00:35, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Where are the autobiographical elements here? I don't see anything suspicious in this very short article. If it calls him a leading specialist in Munda linguistics, that shouldn't be taken as a big deal as there aren't many people working in the field. If anything, I would have thought that because of his involvement in that popular show he should be more well-known that most other linguistics, Munda or otherwise. – Uanfala (talk) 00:47, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep. May have started as an autobiography, but as Uanfala says there's no overt self-promotion in the article as it stands, and Anderson seems notable. For example, his book Auxiliary Verb Constructions (2006) has been cited over 250 times (WP:PROF) and reviewed in reliable sources  (WP:NAUTHOR), and his work on endangered languages has been the subject of a documentary and covered in the press . –&#8239;Joe (talk) 07:24, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * , so where are the reliable secondary sources about him? Guy (help! - typo?) 08:07, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The numbered links in my previous comment. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 08:40, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete No RS here at all. Deathlibrarian (talk) 08:33, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Certainly not an autobiography, the page was created by an editor who created quite a number of articles about linguists in that research area. Notability per sources given by . About the refspammer: anyone collecting and spamming sources about Munda-related topics would automaticaly come across Anderson. FWIW, much of the spamming also involved Brown's Encyclopedia of Languages and Linguistics. –Austronesier (talk) 09:39, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Strong delete Wikipedia has explicit policies against autobiographies. We need to delete anything that started in such way in clear defiance of our terms of use, if we do not we open ourselves up to promotionalist abuse.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:06, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment What are the indicators that this is an autobiography? This is the initial version of the page, here's a list of all pages created by Stevey7788 (blocked in 2019 for COI issues as NPR, but that's a different story). No signifcant additions by any user or IP that reek of self-promotion. –Austronesier (talk) 13:21, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. This may have started as undeclared paid editing rather than a direct autobiography (see block log of article creator) but that was nine years ago and the article has been significantly changed from its initial (very stubby) state. I added 11 reviews of 5 books; I think he passes WP:AUTHOR. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:12, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep However the page first originated, the content is at present flatly informative without being promotional, and the subject passes WP:AUTHOR. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 02:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep The subject seems to be notable as already discussed, and as the article stands today it doesn't look promotional. -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:49, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep this admirably brief BLP. Decent citations for low cited field. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC).
 * Keep per above. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 20:35, 28 August 2020 (UTC)


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