Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vernon P. Ziolkowski

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 04:48, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Vernon P. Ziolkowski

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Fails WP:NACADEMIC and WP:GNG. The claim of "substantial impact" (NACADEMIC #1) is made in footnote 7. I have access to the Cohen source and the two Drews sources, none of which claim "substantial impact" but simply cite his dissertation as primary source material, and our own article on Isidore of Seville only cites him as bibliographic, primary source material. It seems his only publication is his dissertation. He seems to fail the "Average professor" test for classicists or even the more narrow "medieval spanish latinists". Wug·a·po·des 01:56, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Wug·a·po·des 01:56, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Wug·a·po·des 01:56, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Abstain. I have made some minor edits to this article, and have it watchlisted, but would likely not have created it myself and am abstaining because he was one of my teachers. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:02, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @David Eppstein: Thanks for your comment and I can appreciate the conflict. It's clear from the article that Ziolkowski was well regarded in the community. I already dislike making AFD nominations, and it's even less fun when it's articles that document something important to a local community. Who knows, maybe someone has access to a few local papers that did substantial coverage of him that could satisfy GNG. Wug·a·po·des 02:27, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete earning a real doctorate is not a sign of notability, and that is basically the strongest claim to fame we have here. Being a high school Latin teacher is even less of a claim, short of actually indepth coverage of his teaching (which is a rare thing for anyone).John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:28, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Just some guy.Dreamwoven (talk) 18:04, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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