Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rainer Crone


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The result was   Withdrawn. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:06, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Rainer Crone

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Non-notable minor academic, only one real claim to notability (an early work about Warhol, in fact this was the original topic of the entry). Refs do not establish notability, one of the main refs is a letter to the editor written by Crone. Hairhorn (talk) 18:58, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn in light of new info. Cheers. Hairhorn (talk) 14:44, 3 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete The citation weight is weak with this one. Definitely seems to fail WP:PROF. § FreeRangeFrog 21:31, 1 November 2012 (UTC) Keep per DGG, as usual superb research efforts. § FreeRangeFrog  20:40, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:32, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:32, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The article seems a bit amiss. The subject has also edited a work on Rodin Rodin: Eros and creativity, which brings together leading scholars. He may not be a Warhol one-trick pony, after all. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:36, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep A University professor at Munich who is a "minor" academic isn't very likely. And in fact the very inadequate article does not come near showing the actual notability. A check of WorldCat shows that he is a major figure in art history having written many dozen books, most  from major university publishers and  major specialized art publishers, many in hundreds of libraries.  He write in   German and English, but the books have been published also into French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, French, and Japanese. He is indeed an expert on Warhol among other things, & the article was apparently written inadequately just to provide a basis for including his bio of that artist.    I'm adding them to the article, and will add the reviews also, but it will take me all day. When I gave the nominator the link to the   publication record, & asked if he wanted to withdraw the nomination, & I'd add the books  he responded "Huh? Afd is usually thought of as an incentive to improvement." It may indeed do that as a last resort, but the purpose of improving articles is served better by WP:BEFORE. So here I go. I'll   copy just the book titles of the academic works  --the reviews and the exhibition catalogs and the translations are in the article:
 * Andy Warhol. in 438 libraries according to WorldCat
 * Louise Bourgeois: The Secret of the Cells. . In 373 libraries according to WorldCat
 * Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure. University of Chicago Press, 1991. in 498 libraries according to   WorldCat
 * Paul Klee: Legends of the Sign. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. in 498 libraries according to   WorldCat
 * Rodin: Eros and creativity. Munich: Prestel, 2006.   DGG ( talk ) 19:24, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep per DGG; I'm already satisfied that he does indeed meet WP:PROF, even if DGG is not yet done adding notable published works. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:01, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Along with all of the above, as Universitätsprofessor in Munich he likely passes WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:24, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
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