Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Bearman


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was keep. Sr13 19:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Peter Bearman

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The article was deleted for speedy deletion per non-notability, but doesn't qualify, since there is an assertion of notability. I'm moving this to AFD instead. This is a procedural move, so I have no opinion. A ecis Brievenbus 13:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, As it makes me say "Who?" Did not pass WP:N Dep. Garcia ( Talk   + |  Help Desk  |  Complaints  ) 13:50, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 *  Delete Keep I nominated the article for speedy right after I removed the dead link to the guys resume Jeepday (talk) 15:03, 20 May 2007 (UTC) Change my vote to keep, DGG did a lot of good work on this article.  Jeepday (talk) 02:49, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Author of a book that is of general interest (reviewed in numerous notable sources), could be defined as reaching one of the first two criterion of WP:PROF (an expert in his field or an important figure in his field) as the director of ISERP and former chair of the sociology department in Columbia University. -- Amazins490 (talk) 15:57, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. The accomplishments cited by Amazins above put him just over the keep line, I think. I fixed the link to his Columbia faclty bio, which links to his vita if anyone wants to see it. It's also rather endearing that Miss Manners reviewed his book in the NYT. Deor 17:20, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. In addition to above, that national longtitude study on adolescent health sounds potentially notable and is mentioned in Adolescent sexuality in the United States Canuckle 20:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Definite keep, the  article doesn't say, but he holds a named full professorship at Columbia,  former chair of the dept,  as well as being director of a major research center. Such people always have multiple publications, and the article say she does. They just need to be added, which I will now proceed to do.  The general interest book, which has received multiple reviews, adds to it. It would help improve WP if everyone who found material while an article is on AfD added it, even if it were an incomplete reference. Book reviews establish N for a book.  (It was of course totally wrong to place a speedy, as an assertion of notability is sufficient, & to say someone is a professor at Columbia is an assertion of notability.)  DGG 00:30, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Definite keep.  I work in field of adolescent sexuality, and Bearman was the first person to study virginity pledges, and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is the first and currently only nationally-representative study of adolescent sexuality.
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