Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Larson

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Joyous 19:00, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)

Ron Larson
The page Ron Larson contains information about the professor with that name, who wrote a textbook, called "Calculus of a Single Variable: Early Transcendental Functions". While that is a good book, and is referred to in Wikipedia, I doubt the article about the author itself has any value.

More, in the derivative article, the citation of that book has the following form:


 * Larson, Ron, Hostetler, Robert P. and Edwards, Bruce H. (2003). Calculus of a Single Variable: Early Transcendental Functions (3rd Edition). Houghton Mifflin Company. ISBN 061822307X textbook site online

Those red links seem to be reduntant, and most likely will never be filled. Besides, all this smells of self-promotion to me, because of the link to the place where the book can be bought.

Some of us think the Ron Larson article needs to be deleted. Any opinions? Oleg Alexandrov 20:58, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * delete. Authors of bestselling novels probably should get an article.  But it seems to me that authors of technical books, textbooks, and other academic treatises should not get an article unless they are otherwise notable.  Otherwise everyone who's published a PhD thesis will eventually want his own article. Lethe | Talk 21:08, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like vanity/self-promotion. --jag123 21:18, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not sure it qualifies as vanity, but Calculus books are a dime a dozen and writing one surely is not a cause for notability. CSTAR 22:13, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nothing encyclopedic about this. On the other hand, WP is replete with gamer cruft and amateurish, meaningless... oh, never mind :) Wyss 01:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advert. Wile E. Heresiarch 01:30, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not enough material here for an article. -- SGBailey 23:15, 2005 Feb 16 (UTC)

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