Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Daly (archaeologist)


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW  MBisanz  talk 23:08, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Patrick Daly (archaeologist)

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Unreferenced stub article on a recently-qualified archaeologist (DPhil in 2003). He is the co-editor of a paperback book on digital archaeology, and has some hits on google scholar. I am unsure how to assess his academic significance against WP:PROF, but it seems marginal. So I am listing the article here without recommendation in the hope that those who know how to check citations etc will be able to offer a more informed assessment of his notability (or lack of it). -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:25, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  — Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as notability is not established. Boston (talk) 20:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * note I could not find more than this GS search turns up. Pete.Hurd (talk) 04:18, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * See also related AFD for his co-editor, Thomas L. Evans. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:14, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Did he play football somewhere? If so, he'd be entitled to his own article, and maybe the digital archaeology book can be mentioned in a trivia section to make the page more colorful.  Mandsford (talk) 14:36, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Although I sympathize profoundly with your comment, I don't think the fact that the jocks can't get their act together should be an excuse for us to do the same... --Crusio (talk) 15:20, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - all academics co-author books, fails WP:PROF. No notability asserted. Parslad (talk) 16:14, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. Citation impact seems to be low. According to WorldCat, the book Digital archaeology (which the subject co-edited) is in 258 libraries worldwide in electronic format. Given the low citation impact of the book, these holdings alone fall a bit short of establishing notability under WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed). Like the subject’s co-editor (being discussed in another AfD), he may become WP-notable in the future, but has not reached that stage yet, in my opinion.--Eric Yurken (talk) 17:10, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Currently, this person does not have achievements to warrant an encyclopedia article. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 21:20, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as article does not establish notability. Adam Zel (talk) 14:48, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


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