Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ned Polsky


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The result was keep. ~ Amory  (u • t • c) 18:44, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Ned Polsky

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Both offline and online source searches turn up little significant coverage to confer notability per ANYBIO. Apparent failure of WP:NAUTHOR and WP:BLP1E as the only claim to notability is signing a letter.  SITH   (talk)   00:09, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  ~Ruyaba~   {talk}  00:52, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
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 * Ned Polsky's book "Hustlers, Beats, and Others," first published in 1967, seemed to be widely read in the San Francisco Bay area during and after the Height-Ashbury movement, almost as a companion book to Theodore Roszak's "The Making of a Counter Culture." However Polsky did not generate much news, and his influence was not as great or as lasting as Roszak's.  I guess not enough is known about him to make a good bio article.  Too bad.  I think he was an interesting person. His obituary is at  - HowardMorland (talk) 03:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * - there may in fact be sources to support an article. If you are willing to put the effort into a source and expand.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:56, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * KEEP Looks like a familiar thing: old article that needs an upgrade.  this prof (of sociology or criminology) had a real footprint back in the day.  In his case, the 60s.  quite a lot of stuff turned up in a quick proquest newspaper archive search of the title of his book and his surname.  I added 2 book reviews, and am out of time.  But I do think it will be a keep.  A willing editor without access to news archives might try searching for significant coverage in books. Also, do we have a list of pool-related deletions?   Returned, ran the title of his book thorugh JSTOR search, added half a dozen academic journal book reviews.  Sails past WP:AUTHOR.  Page is still paltry, but I suggest that we keep it instead a redirect to his notable book.  Reason is: he must have been born somewhere, gotten his PhD somewhere, been on the faculty somewhere and perhaps bred up a generation of young criminologists.  He may well have written other notable stuff.   So, just KEEP and hope an editor comes along to improve it. WP:HEYMANN] sourcing with book reviews. E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:08, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. I'd be more comfortable with the case for WP:AUTHOR if there were more than one book. But the book does appear to be quite significant and I think there's enough other stories surrounding the subject (who appears to have been quite a colorful character) to save it from WP:BIO1E. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:41, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   17:29, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep An interesting thing about WP:AUTHOR is that it does not specify "book". Polsky is an easy pass of WP:AUTHOR because he created two works (Hustlers and the Mailer essay) that were separately significant, well-known, and discussed in multiple periodicals. The rest of the coverage he received is bonus. Bakazaka (talk) 21:28, 23 February 2019 (UTC)


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