Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Fox (musicologist)

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The result was redirect to Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture. Randykitty (talk) 15:12, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Aaron Fox (musicologist)[edit]

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Non-notable Amber388 (talk) 22:33, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. CThomas³ (talk) 23:41, 6 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:22, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. His book Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture has enough reviews to be independently notable [1]. And Fox has published a couple of other well cited works, but very few, long ago, and one of them was a review article. From 2006 on, Google Scholar shows only 14 publications, none with any citations. It doesn't really look like the kind of career trajectory that has taken or will take him beyond the ordinary associate professor level he is at now. So I'm leaning towards "make an article on the book and redirect to that", or, if nobody cares enough about the book to take that step, then deletion. But I'd prefer to hold off expressing that as my actual !vote for a little longer, in case more evidence comes in or someone wants to try to change my mind. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:18, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 15:01, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete or redirect per my above comment and the lack of interest anyone else has shown since in trying to change my mind. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:01, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~ title of book was given incorrectly on page, which made him look non-notable whena I search ed for th ebook (because he has a common sort of name) . Passes WP:AUTHOR with reviews in general circulation newspapers and academic journals of a book that shows up in gScholar as widely cited.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC) I am coming around to David Epstein's POV.E.M.Gregory (talk) 02:27, 21 June 2019 (UTC) make that one review in a general circulation magazine, added to the page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 02:28, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I added the first half dozen academic book reviews that came up in a JSTOR search (there were more), just to keep the page up while we wait for an editor with an academic interest in country music to upgrade it.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:09, 20 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 00:54, 21 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

~~Delete~~ Associate prof who published one scholarly book, that got a number of academic reviews, but little attention in the years since despite the fact that he writes about country music. He doesn't even appear to get quoted much in the press. Nor can I find WP:SIGCOV of his life or career. looks like a non- notable, WP:MILL professor.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:53, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, the book is wikinotable (plenty of reviews) and should have a standalone article, author probably not. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:10, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, as suggested by Coolabahapple and David Eppstein, I created a sourced stub on Fox's book: Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.E.M.Gregory (talk) 09:58, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture.E.M.Gregory (talk)
Redirect to Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture as logical target. Coolabahapple (talk) 12:21, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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