Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bjørg Aase Sørensen

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The result was keep. Geschichte (talk) 09:21, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bjørg Aase Sørensen[edit]

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I'm very unsure if she meets WP:PROF and think there is a possibility she doesn't. The sources here are bad, one of them an eulogy published by her employer. As for PROF#5, "The person has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research, or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon", her professorship was at a university college which is one tier below universities. As for PROF#8, I'm unsure whether Acta Sociologica qualifies as a "chief editor of a major, well-established academic journal in their subject area". The current editors at least don't have articles. Geschichte (talk) 20:48, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO#2. She made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in her field: "The first woman sociologist to introduce the concept of women's responsible rationality and contrast it with men's technical limited rationality was Bjørg Aase Sørensen"[1], "Bjørg Aase Sørensen developed two concepts of rationality that were to impact significantly on Norwegian gender discourse"[2], "Within Norwegian Action Research, Björg Aase Sørensen was for four decades and until her death in 2010 a very influential figure, not only in the Norwegian scene, but certainly as much in the Scandinavian scene as well."[3]. I only quickly searched for English-language sources; presumably much more is written about her in Norwegian. pburka (talk) 21:55, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
One more: "...in the late 70ties and early 80ties in Norway, one of our leading feminists, Bjørg Åse Sørensen, introduced a paradigm shift within women's research."[4]. pburka (talk) 22:43, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I find pburka's argument persuasive. XOR'easter (talk) 17:41, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. I wouldn't be so convinced solely by what seem like passing mentions in journal articles or edited volume articles (although they are indeed fairly positive). I do think that Acta Sociologica is generally the kind of journal that helps meet WP:NPROF C8, however. I'm at "weak" because I'm not seeing the citation record that I would expect, but the subject was active mostly in the pre-internet era, and the combination of the era and a language barrier likely explains. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 19:39, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per pburka, it is expected that a scholar in another country in the pre-internet era would not have the same online footprint as a current academic in an English speaking country. Therefore I put more weight on the quotes found be pburka. --hroest 16:02, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Kudos pburka for finding that information and showing us that the subject passes WP:GNG. Looking forward to seeing this article expanded with Norwegian sources, too. Missvain (talk) 23:57, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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