Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Brent (author)


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The result was   keep, withdrawn. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:22, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Jonathan Brent (author)

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Article was deproded by an anon IP account. Yet the original reason of not being able to find reliable sources to establish notability has not been addressed. My google and bing searches have not turned up anything to establish notability. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 17:13, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 20:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Keep - I think his work as his publisher - director of Yale Uni Press - production of the Annals of Communism series (National Review: John J. Miller wrote a profile of Brent and the Annals of Communism series arguing It is perhaps not too much to say that Brent’s Annals of Communism series, which was launched more than a decade ago, is one of the most important publishing projects in the world. ) and Executive Directorship of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research all would seem sufficient to establish notability.I am not sure if publisher would be better than author in the parentheses in the title (Msrasnw (talk) 21:48, 9 July 2011 (UTC)) PS He is also the visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature at Bard College. (A named chair (but only a visiting one at a small college))(Msrasnw (talk) 11:17, 10 July 2011 (UTC))


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 * Keep. His work, both as an editor and as an author, has been extensively covered in mainstream news-media. E.g. see reviews in New York Times,,, Chicago Tribune,, Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR and other newspapers (e.g. ,,,,). Quite a few of these provide specific coverage of him personally, e.g. the National Review, (the article is called "The annals of Jonathan Brent: one man and a great publishing project"), an article specifically about him in The Jewish Week, etc. I think there is enough here to pass WP:BIO (particularly WP:AUTHOR) and WP:PROF#C7, and, if nothing else, WP:GNG. Nsk92 (talk) 14:00, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Nomination withdrawn - Thank you both for turning up additional sources. I'm not clear why Google didn't (and still doesn't) turn those up when I search on his name.  Is the geolocation sorting on google somehow messing things up?  For future reference, could you tell me what keywords you used on the google search so I can see if it also produces such findings?  Thank you.  ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 15:20, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
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