Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher B. Krebs

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The result was Speedy Keep per WP:SNOW. I'm going to withdraw this nomination due to the sources presented by User:David Eppstein (non-admin closure) Chess (talk) (please use {{ping|Chess}} on reply) 04:10, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher B. Krebs[edit]

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Fails WP:NACADEMIC and doesn't appear to meet any other notability criterions. While he has received the "Christian Gauss Award" which is a national-level honor, the award doesn't appear to be that prestigious. Practically every source I was able to find was either affiliated with Phi Beta Kappa or was a press release from a university that had a member of faculty win or be shortlisted for the award. Obviously, these sources have a pretty strong incentive to play up the significance of the Christian Gauss Award. About the only non-conflicted sources I was able to find was this [1] listing of faculty prizes in English by McGill University, which gives the Christopher Gauss Award a single sentence and this [2] New York Times obituary about a professor M.H. Abrams, which gives a single mention of the Christian Gauss Award about 6 paragraphs in. While I don't doubt that the Christian Gauss Award is significant in its field, it doesn't appear to be on the "highly prestigious" level. While Krebs has certainly worked at and studied at major universities, he doesn't appear to be an especially major academic. Chess (talk) (please use {{ping|Chess}} on reply) 02:49, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment Off to a good citation start for a classics scholar. Maybe WP:Too soon. What does the nominator think about the citation record? Xxanthippe (talk) 02:57, 8 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]
Keep. One doesn't get to even the associate level at Stanford by being a slouch. Negotiatio Germaniae has three reviews on JSTOR [3] [4] [5] as does A Most Dangerous Book [6] [7] [8]. His co-edited volume Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The "Plupast" from Herodotus to Appian has two [9] [10]. I think that's enough for WP:AUTHOR. And the citation record is not bad for a classicist, with over 150 citations for A Most Dangerous Book and 77 for a journal article. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:05, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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