Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James P. Comer


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The result was   keep. JohnCD (talk) 20:18, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

James P. Comer

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Contested PROD. Merely concerned that not enough third party references are present in this orphaned article to establish notability. Will leave to AFD to decide. Glass  Cobra  19:57, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep. As the long-term holder of an endowed chair at an Ivy League university he clearly passes WP:PROF. And I think having a profile in the New York Times also speaks to his notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:13, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:04, 30 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. The article could definitely do with better sourcing - though where the subject has written an autobiography, there is always going to be a strong temptation to use it to source biographical details which may be otherwise difficult to find. But the subject is clearly notable - not only passing WP:PROF#C5 but almost certainly WP:PROF#C1 as well - not just because of the GScholar results but also his Heinz Award and Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education (I will let others decide what other notability criteria these might satisfy. I would also note that the article's orphan status resulted entirely from other articles where the subject was already mentioned in contexts where links might have been expected, either not linking at all or trying to link to James Comer. I have now corrected several of these. PWilkinson (talk) 15:42, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep As above DHooke1973 (talk) 17:29, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
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