Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey A. Wilson

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. W.marsh 00:10, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jeffrey A. Wilson[edit]

non-notable bio Batman2005 04:28, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Does not assert notability; co-editor of one book on amazon.com. Weregerbil 06:01, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. Page has now been edited to assert notability. No mention of any publication was made initially. Little content in article though. Weregerbil 02:01, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep. As a well published researcher in the field of paleontology, Wilson is certainly notable. Scroll through the list of published papers in many scientific journals I have listed on his bio page. You can see that he fits the category of published authors who have written articles in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more. Add to that he is editor of the book on Sauropods you mention, hence he has edited a book with an audience of 5,000 or more. In addition, he has also written one chapter and co-authored one chapter in the afore-mentioned book. So an Amazon search alone is highly misleading in this case! (in fact even if he hadn't written and co-written all these other scientific papers, Dr Wilson would still be notable by Wikipedia standards, as (co-)editor of a book with a circulation of over 5000)

comment: I already explained this on Batman2005's user talk page, but will repeat it here (and also on the Curry Rogers AfD page); that while there are heaps of entries on Wikipedia on a many different dinosaur genera (something I do support btw), there are as yet very few write-ups on the paleontologists who are making these discoveries. This means Wikipedia has a sort of kids' book quality when it comes to paleontology - lots of stuff on names and types of dinosaurs, but very little on the real science and scientists behind their discovery. For this reason, pages on scientists who have made important discoveries in this field are absolutely necessary. M Alan Kazlev 09:09, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Obvious Keep. Monicasdude 15:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. Far from the WP:PERFECT article. Wikipedia is not a directory of publications; explanation of Prof. Wilson's life and work needs to be expanded greatly. Ikkyu2 21:56, 12 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Published author in his field but the article greatly needs to expand as per above, wiki is not a list of publications. --† Ðy§ep§ion † ^{Speak your mind} 00:16, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
comment I've added some additional material, also annoitated some of the bibliographical references M Alan Kazlev 07:41, 14 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep published author most articles are not perfect. Yamaguchi先生 01:56, 13 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.