Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katheryn K. Russell


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The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:22, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Katheryn K. Russell
Non-notable professor jucifer 21:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete - profesor who fails the "professor test". Low google results.  Perhaps vanity.  jucifer 21:30, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral. Easily verifiable but I need more info to decide on notability. Do we actually have established criteria for notability of academic people (professor test)? - Haukur Þorgeirsson 22:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Nah, check WP:BIO and Wikipedia talk:Criteria for inclusion of biographies/Academics (and please weigh in, as the discussion has gotten stale), but if you can find a reasonable number of publications by an academic, s/he is likely ultimately to be kept. u p p l a n d 07:37, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Now I've read through that and I'm even more confused than before. The problem seems intractable. I've wrote some academics stub myself; Óskar Halldórsson, Hermann Pálsson], Sigurður Nordal... I'd say Nordal is definitely notable - he's in Britannica, for one thing. In my opinion Hermann Pálsson is notable too but Óskar may be more marginal and I'm not sure if I'd create a stub on him if I'd been thinking about it today. Nevertheless his is a name you'll see come up in a "History of Icelandic Literature" type of work - even if only for his research on Hrafnkels saga.

But it really depends on how deep a coverage of the relevant subject we have. Once we have a deep coverage of the Icelandic sagas it will be very useful to have articles on the academics who have contributed most to their study. Because that's a field I know well I feel I can make reasonable judgment calls on what biographies to include at each stage.

But in the field of Katheryn K. Russell I'm completely lost. So I guess my vote is: "Leave it up to people who know something about that field." - Haukur Þorgeirsson 11:13, 12 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep &mdash; Based on a google search she seems to be fairly well published and frequently referenced by others. &mdash; RJH 17:53, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Citations seem notable enough; just over the bar, but keep when in doubt. Xoloz 03:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC)


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