Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Barksdale


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  23:39, 9 May 2021 (UTC)

Karl Barksdale

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A teacher and writer that does not appear to pass the WP:GNG. He has written or contributed to a large number of textbooks and guide books, and while there is plenty of verification that these books exist, there is no actual coverage on him, as an individual, at all. Doing a WP:BEFORE search just turns up the listings of the various books he has contributed to, with no actual coverage that would allow him to pass WP:NBIO, or the more specific WP:NPROF or WP:NAUTHOR. As an amusing side note, as he is also a high school teacher, most of the edits to the article over the year appear to have been vandalism and in-jokes inserted by his various students. Rorshacma (talk) 23:38, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Rorshacma (talk) 23:38, 2 May 2021 (UTC)
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 * delete unless there are independent reviews of his books added to the article he looks non-notable per WP:NAUTHOR and WP:NPROF. --hroest 13:33, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete. More or less what hroest said: he may be a prolific author but these kinds of how-to books are not literary or scholarly works and do not tend to attract much attention in the form of published book reviews. Without that, we can't get WP:AUTHOR notability. And WP:PROF appears both out of reach and misapplied to someone who is mostly a high school teacher and tech book author. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:32, 8 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom   Devoke  water  11:35, 9 May 2021 (UTC)


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