Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Levendusky

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 was keep. MBisanz ^talk 01:34, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew Levendusky[edit]

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I am the original author of this article and I would like to make the case for its deletion. First, if Professor Levendusky is notable and truly meets the criteria for Wikipedia, it suggests that nearly all professors are notable. This standard seems untenable. Second, Professor Levendusky is not, in fact, a public personality. He does not do TV or radio and his work is not discussed widely outside the confines of peer reviewed political science journals. In that way, I do not believe that he is a "publicly known personality". If that changes, I would be happy to put the page back up. in the meantime, however, I think it is better to be safe and take it down. Third, as the original author of the page and the person that has done the most research on Professor Levendusky, I am very familiar with his work and feel extremely comfortable with this recommendation. Greg Kite (talk) 12:17, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: The only thing is that peer reviewed journals actually do count towards notability and I'm finding quite a few that discuss his book. You don't have to be Snooki to gain notability. Thank God. So far I'm seeing that he would merit an article, or at least his book would. I do think that the article reads more like a resume than an encyclopedic article and a lot of the stuff on there as far as research goes isn't covered by any independent sources. I'm thinking that if I can't find anything on him, we should create an article for his book and redirect there, if that's what he's mostly known for.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 13:03, 23 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or create a separate article for the book Partisan Sort and redirect. Prof. Levedusky is a notable author and scientist, which is well documented in the reviews published by peer reviewed journals (currently present in the article). The information is publicly available and verifiable and there's no reason to delete this article from Wikipedia. @Greg Kite: In your initial request, you stated that the subject requested deletion. Could you elaborate, please? I'm sorry, maybe I confused you with my claim that he's a "publicly known personality", it was a bit vague and ambiguous. You can check our notability guidelines for scientists, authors and also our general notability requirements. Thank you. --Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 10:42, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Vejvančický (talk | contribs) 15:46, 24 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If Levendusky is requesting deletion then the best course of action would be to make the book article. I'll try to create one at some point tonight.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:55, 25 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think making the book an entry on its own is a great idea. If Tokyogirl79 does not have time tonight, I will do it tomorrow during the day EST.

Speedy Keep There's no substantial argument against Levendusky's notability here – being "publicly known" beyond academia does not feature in WP:ACADEMIC at all. Per the above, it looks like the real reason for this AfD is that the subject of the article has asked the nominator to delete it. That isn't grounds for deletion, and AfD isn't the appropriate place to address the issue. joe•roe^t•c 17:33, 26 October 2012 (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.