Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Weissberg


 * 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. -- Cirt (talk) 00:41, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

Robert Weissberg

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A BLP whose only sources are primary. Stonemason89 (talk) 04:40, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Weak Keep - seems to meet the academic threshhold. See Google books listing, Google scholar listing, [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ARobert+Weissberg&qt=advanced&dblist=638 World Cat listing. Note that a number of his books are widely held by World Cat libraries - 231 libraries (note this is a mid 2000's publication date), 244 libraries (also a mid 2000s publication date), and 540 libraries (originally published 1976, has two editions). Ealdgyth - Talk 14:31, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: He seems to pass WP:PROF. However, this needs a total rewrite. It needs better references, and shouldn't read like a CV. References should be found, otherwise it might warrant deletion. Danski14(talk) 18:09, 5 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:22, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Excellent GS cites. A careless nomination. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:46, 6 September 2010 (UTC).
 * Comment This article also includes BLP violations, including the sentence stating that "he has been criticized for his association with" white nationalists, a sentence which is unsourced. An unsourced claim like that is particularly problematic. Stonemason89 (talk) 01:56, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * That is a case for editing, not deletion. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:23, 6 September 2010 (UTC).

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak keep. I'm having trouble finding any reliable source that says anything in-depth about him, although there are plenty of unreliable ones that say quite negative things. So this is a bit of an ongoing WP:BLP concern, despite my removal of the sentence pointed out by Stonemason89. But he is a highly prolific author with hundreds of libraries holding his books, and a few reliably published reviews of his books, even ignoring the English-as-a-second-language Weissberg who appears to be a different person. So I think he passes WP:AUTHOR, and the reviews give us something to say about his ideas if not his personal life. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:51, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
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