Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randall V. Mills


 * 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. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 22:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Randall V. Mills

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I don't see anything that qualifies this English professor for WP:ACADEMIC. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:38, 29 September 2009 (UTC) Keep. The subject was a well-accomplished and respected folklorist, for whom the University of Oregon's folklore library was named. See http://www.uoregon.edu/~flr/welcome/archives.htm: He also assembled an important collection of regional photographs, also at the University of Oregon http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv90307 :
 * Delete - as far as I can see he doesn't satisfy any criterion of WP:N, WP:PROF or WP:CREATIVE. Keep per discussion below. - DustFormsWords (talk) 02:16, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Beyond that, the subject wrote one of the major works on steamboats in the Pacific Northwest, Sternwheelers up Columbia, ISBN 0803258747. Worldcat shows 259 hits in libraries for the four editions of this book. There are 38 hits in Wikipedia alone for this work. There are 1,800 hits on Google for "Randall Vause Mills". So I think notability is established.Mtsmallwood (talk) 14:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've added the information above to the article; now that it's included he passes WP:N and I've changed my vote to Keep accordingly. - DustFormsWords (talk) 23:23, 30 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 06:24, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. On his own qualification (at least as indicated in article), I would have voted "delete".  However, the fact that University of Oregon named its folklore archives after him provides a very good reason why readers would have an interest in finding out just who this person so honored was.  LotLE × talk  02:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep respected and honored specialist. MiRroar (talk) 22:13, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
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