Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linda Carty (sociologist)


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The result was delete. J04n(talk page) 15:51, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

Linda Carty (sociologist)

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Fails WP:PROF. The references for this BLP are a joke and are mostly broken primary references written by the author or her university. The only evidence of notability provided is that she once wrote an article for 'Ms.' magazine, and that she was thanked in the acknowledgements of a book one time. Note that Google search is not a credible way to establish notability for this individual because she unfortunately shares a name with a convicted murderer who dominates in search results. Bueller 007 (talk) 16:11, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Delete Agreed that references are not good and don't seem to link properly. Non-notable academic for Wikipedia. Seaweed (talk) 16:40, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep She has reviews of her work and one journal calls her a pioneer in her field. I added information to the article and expanded it. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:58, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * The reference added has been misconstrued in order to assert notability, and I have removed it from the article since it is obviously inappropriate. Here is the exact quote from the article: By the early 1990s, critiques centred on the absence of Black women from the published historical record produced dionne brand’s collection, No Burden to Carry (1991), and ‘‘We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up’’ (1994) by Peggy Bristow, dionne brand, Linda Carty, Afua P. Cooper, Sylvia Hamilton, and Adrienne Shadd."  These pioneering collections of articles were complemented by Constance Backhouse’s Colour Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900–1950 (1999).  This is the only mention of Carty in the entire article.  It does not call her a "pioneer" and it does not establish notability of Carty...  If anything, it establishes notability of the book We're Rooted Here, but even that is a major stretch. Bueller 007 (talk) 22:31, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I tried to add the same disputation of Megalibrarygirl's !vote but clashed with your edit. I've copied it below.
 * You may wish to rephrase that claim, because it seems to mischaracterize Carty's standing. The journal article in CHR does not call her a pioneer in the sense that you imply. Rather, her name appears in a long list of authors and it is actually several collections of works that are called "pioneering", i.e. "...produced...We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up (1994) by Peggy Bristow, dionne brand, Linda Carty, ... These pioneering collections of articles..." (boldface mine). Carty wrote 1 chapter in 1 of these collections and Carty's name (this is the only reference to it in this entire 19-page article) appears basically in the context of a literature review.
 * Delete. MA thesis is the only book listed in WorldCat. GS doesn't shows that pubs are cited much. (What Megalibrarygirl added is basically 1 citation.) Many of the sources are web. I've had more than a casual look, but cannot find anything that indicates this person is anything other than an average professor. Agricola44 (talk) 22:51, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete total and complete failure to meet the notability guidelines for academics. When someone is said to have been ""born in the Caribbean and then come to Canada" we certainly lack good biographical information, generally a sign the person is not notable. What next, will we get an article on a living professor in Canada who is said to have been "born in Africa and then come to Canada". I cringe at such inprecesion. The man born somewhere south of 14-mile and then moved north of that major dividing line in Macomb County, Michigan.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:15, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. GS h-index of only 7 in a hot subject is inadequate for WP:Prof: WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 21:30, 1 January 2018 (UTC).


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