Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kevin O'Connor (historian)


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The result was   keep. Nomination withdrawn  DGG ( talk ) 05:17, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

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Unable to find any reliable sources independent of the subject to sufficiently establish notability. Per the article, this is an associate professor who has written three books. Can find no reviews or critical commentary of any of the books listed. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG, WP:PROF, or WP:AUTHOR. J04n(talk page) 20:39, 30 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment: I typed "Kevin O'Connor" "baltic states" book review into Google scholar and it comes up straight away with book reviews in peer reviewed academic publications. One of which - arbitratily chosen - I have added this (and multiple other reviews) to the article. (Msrasnw (talk) 21:31, 30 August 2010 (UTC))


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  — J04n(talk page) 20:39, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete, no assertion of notability, no references, no nothing. No reason to keep. --khfan93 (t) (c) 20:50, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as unsourced BLP, without prejudice against future recreation. The number of English-language historians of the Baltic republics is small and this may well be a significant figure in the field. Or not. No demonstration of notability as currently written. Carrite (talk) 21:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as it seems to me passes Wp:Author Creative Professionals No. 3 - The person has created.. a significant .. work ..that has been the subject of ... multiple independent periodical reviews. Book's reviewed in multiple respectable places -
 * * History of the Baltic States (Greenwood Press, 2003) - Book Review Kasekampa, Andres (2006) Book Review of Kevin O'Connor. The History of the Baltic States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003 (The Greenwood Histories of the Modem Nations), ISBN 0313323550. in Journal of Baltic Studies, Volume 37, Issue 3 Autumn 2006, pages 336 - 338
 * * Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution (Lexington Books, 2006) - Book Review Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution by Kevin O'Connor book review by BO PETERSSON in Nations and Nationalism Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 412–414, April 2008 and Intellectuals and Apparatchiks: Russian Nationalism and the Gorbachev Revolution. Book Review by Robinson, Neil1 in The Slavonic and East European Review, Volume 86, Number 3, 1 July 2008, pp. 586-587(2)
 * * Culture and Customs of the Baltic States (Greenwood Press, 2006). - Book Review of Culture and Customs of the Baltic States – By Kevin O’Conner - Reviewed by John Hiden  in Historian Volume 69, Issue 4, page 835, Winter 2007
 * These books and refs to reviews have been added (Msrasnw (talk) 21:43, 30 August 2010 (UTC))


 * Withdrawing nomination per the reviews found by Msrasnw, strong work. J04n(talk page) 23:21, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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