Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marshall Poe

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The result of the debate was Keep. Rx StrangeLove 05:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Marshall Poe
Suspicion lurks that this is only here due to the dread "I Was There" Wiki Memoir project, and no real evidence of notability beyond the proverbial average college professor (though I'd be happy to be proved wrong on that). Alai 01:02, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, apparently. Amazon suggests that someone by this name has indeed published a number of texts on Russia. Remove the reference to the damn memoir project, though. -Splash 02:45, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Dissertation Poe, Marshall T. Russian Despotism: The Origins and Dissemination of an Early Modern Commonplace, 1994. So he's a Ph.D in that area all right - verifiability rather than notability.  Dlyons493 07:58, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Obvious notability. Several books published with prestigious academic publishers. One of his books has even been translated into Swedish. I don't know why I have to repeat this again and again in these deletion discussions on academics, but don't just use Amazon when the Library of Congress catalog ue is no farther than a couple of mouseclicks away (as is the catalog[ue] of every other half-decent academic or national library in the world). By the way, you may be interested in reading Poe's essay "Note to Self: Print Monograph Dead; Invent New Publishing Model" here, in the Journal of Electronic Publishing. --Uppland 10:53, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm fine with this article. Alf melmac 17:15, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as notable historian. Capitalistroadster 00:41, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
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