Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Crawford (historian)


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The result was   delete. Olaf Davis (talk) 12:27, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Richard Crawford (historian)

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We received an inquiry about this article via OTRS, which prompted me to take a closer look at it. It doesn't look to me like this guy passes WP:AUTHOR or WP:GNG. His books were either printed by a very small or even self-owned press (See ), and his awards seem very regional. I simply can't find enough to verify notability. If we do wind up finding enough to keep it, it needs to be cleaned a bit - with content like "due to his expansive knowledge of the subject", it truly does come across as a promotional piece. Moonriddengirl (talk) 19:07, 21 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - Does not appear to meet GNG, nor are awards sufficient or published work sufficiently weighty in academic use for pass under academic special notability low bars. Carrite (talk) 16:41, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Does not seem notable. Points made by Carrite are quite valid. No indication of notable scholarship. Intothatdarkness 21:33, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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