Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Reuben Cohen


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:18, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Jonathan Reuben Cohen

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Scanning the internet, notability guideline for academics in hand, I cannot see any evidence that this guy is more notable than any other college professor. pablo hablo. 22:55, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete. A professional philosopher with only one book, having the same title as his 1991 Ph.D. thesis, not published until 2009, and with no book reviews that I can find? Not a good sign. His name is too common to make searching easy, but I tried anyway and didn't find much on Google scholar and Google books. In any case I don't think he passes WP:PROF #1 nor any of the other criteria there. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:11, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article created too early. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:33, 28 January 2010 (UTC).
 * Comment. 19 years after the Ph.D. is usually not too early: if they're going to become notable as an academic, that's plenty of time to do it in. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:51, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That is a fair point. Perhaps I was trying to be charitable. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:26, 29 January 2010 (UTC).


 * Delete. Not enough work. MiRroar (talk) 18:13, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems to fail WP:prof. Being the director of General Education isn't really an indicator of prominence in one's field (if anything, it's the exact opposite). B figura  (talk) 01:14, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Add to these points that his main book publication, "Science, Culture, and Free Spirits", is held by fewer than 10 institutions according to WorldCat. As David said above, this seems to be his published PhD thesis, implying that he hasn't actually produced much notable scholarship past his grad school days. Respectfully, Agricola44 (talk) 15:54, 29 January 2010 (UTC).
 * Delete Agree, this doesn't look good for his article. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 21:41, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
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