Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Matthew McCarter


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:00, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

William Matthew McCarter

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This article, written by a WP:SPA with an obvious WP:COI is close to A7 material. The subject has written a small number of books with very minor publishers, and is namechecked for some activism, largely with his wife (the same SPA wrote her biography too). The claim to notability appears to be WP:PROF, but that looks like a fail. As does WP:NAUTHOR. Guy (Help!) 19:59, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. His academic work other than his principal book (Homo redneckus : on being not qwhite in America)is utterly trivial, and the book is not so important as to justify an article, especially considering the coi   DGG ( talk ) 22:46, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete books insufficiently notable to carry him past WP:AUTHOR or WP:PROFESSOR; fails to show much in either news archive searches or in searches of books and scholarly literature; books are out form a minor press. Being a nominee for a Pushcart Prize, while not sufficient to support notability, may be indicative of WP:TOOSOON.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:11, 17 December 2017 (UTC)


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