Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Berthold


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The result was keep. Tone 16:53, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Richard Berthold

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Some casual reading of the noticeboards brought this to my attention. This is WP:BLP1E-that-nobody-cared-about-after-a-week-or-so. We ought not memorialize every stupid thing that briefly made the papers. Mangoe (talk) 12:25, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep. I've significantly cleaned up, expanded, and sourced the article. He's borderline for WP:PROF (only one properly published book; retired as associate) but I think the many in-depth published reviews of his book and newspaper coverage of three controversies he's embroiled himself in (not just the 2001 one) give him a pass of WP:GNG and maybe WP:AUTHOR. And certainly there is more than one event here. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:47, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * PS Evidence for his significance beyond the 9/11 controversy is also provided by the fact that eight of our articles included references to his book. I doubt that the addition of those references was politically motivated, as (until I did so today) none of them linked to the article on Berthold. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:32, 13 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep The fact that scholars writing about academic freedom in multiple university press books over several years have continued to discuss the event, and Berthold's role in it, seems to contradict the nominator's assessment. And, as David Eppstein has shown in the article expansion, it's at least a WP:BLP2E situation. Whatever other notability criteria might apply are bonus points, as the subject passes WP:GNG. Bakazaka (talk) 19:13, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep BLP about eccentric academic maverick. Just passes WP:Prof. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:27, 17 February 2019 (UTC).
 * Weak Keep A technical WP:NPROF pass. Not sure this BLP will survive long-term. Britishfinance (talk) 16:02, 19 February 2019 (UTC)


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