Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott McCartney


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:57, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Scott McCartney

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Seemingly non-notable journalist even though the listed awards especially the George Polk Award (listed as "prestigious") may suggest keepable and notability but also the only results I found was this, this, this and this. Notifying tagger and also  who may have some familiar insight. SwisterTwister  talk  07:24, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep.  We have   articles on about half winners of the Polk awards.  The category "Transportation Reporting" was awarded only twice, so it's hard to compare. But apart from journalist, he's a notable author: His book ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer is in 728 libraries, and is the most widely held book ever published on the subject.  His other books are held in between 200 and 300 libraries. There are undoubtedly reviews, and they need to be looked for)--one  substantial review is  in IEEE  Annals of the History of Computing, , but for the most widely held book on a topic like Eniac, they will be there. Google Scholar shows the book has een cited 136 times, quite high for a technical book.   DGG ( talk ) 09:01, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 14:06, 27 November 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. The Polk Awards are clearly well-known and significant (covered by the NYTimes every year, even when they don't win); the Encyclopedia of American Journalism describes them as among the most prestigious in the field. Gbooks search also shows extensive citation of his work. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo) (talk) 18:37, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:38, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. Based on the awards, as said above, this should be a keeper per Wikipedia's notability rules. However, the article is a poor stub in need of more development as are many of the articles that get nominated in this process. Crtew (talk) 12:25, 10 December 2015 (UTC)


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