Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John D. Smith


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The result was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Wizardman 17:23, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

John D. Smith

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Unsourced BLP Will (talk) 22:40, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 00:12, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep qualifies as an academic., , , . JJL (talk) 03:26, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * deletet Is/was Lecturer in Sanskrit at Cambridge University but googling about, I really don't see much evidence of notable impact, a book published by CUP, and a few articles, but nothing clearly over the WP:PROF bar IMHO. Pete.Hurd (talk) 06:11, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems to be cited often enough to pass muster at WP:PROF. Given the rather specialised nature of his field, it's not reasonable to expect a truckload of references.  Lankiveil (talk) 12:21, 26 December 2007 (UTC).
 * Delete his field seems relatively unspecialized to me; he's working on a popular epic and is a lecturer in one of the world's most popular ancient languages. (Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit, in some order, would be my guess.) I just don't see that he reaches the notability bar.--Prosfilaes (talk) 14:46, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Western academic work on ancient Sanskrit literature is an extremely small field, and practically the classic influence of specialization. One major book by a press like CUP is enough here. DGG (talk) 07:09, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


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