Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Nissenbaum

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. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 13:39, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This is an article about a seemingly non-notable academic, possible a vanity article. According to Worldcat his only work is an unpublished dissertation (owned only by the school he graduated from). Don't know about articles, though, so I thought arguments could perhaps be made. Delete Mak (talk) 18:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete unless some further proof of notability can be provided. --Bachrach44 15:50, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, maybe speedy per CSD:A7. From what I see, fails WP:BIO and WP:PROFTEST. -- ReyBrujo 21:13, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment He wouldn't be a prof at McGill if his only work is his disertation. We need more info, but I gota run at the momeent. JeffBurdges 07:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This is probably true, but I believe that not every academic who has a university appointment is necessarily notable. The only academic I've written an article on has a festschrift dedicated to him. I realize that there is room for disagreement, but from this article and what I've seen so far, this person is not particularly notable. Mak (talk) 13:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Technically he's an assistant professor: see his page at McGill, which also lists his other work. I'm neutral on this; article talk page points out that he's referenced elsewhere on Wikipedia. — Haeleth Talk 13:54, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strongly oppose deletion. He did his PhD under Noam Chomsky, and according to his website has published work with Danny Fox, who is extremely well-known within linguistics. He's published one paper in Linguistic Inquiry (one of the most prestigious journals within generative linguistics) and several others in other peer-reviewed publications. He's plenty more notable than a lot of other people listed on Wikipedia. Regarding the comment above, he's referenced on Parasitic gap (bias declaration: I put quite a lot of work into that article). Cadr 00:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Further comment: he is clearly notable according to WP:BIO: "Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more". Linguistic Inquiry has a circulation of 5,000 or more, so he's notable according to WP:BIO. Cadr 00:36, 11 May 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.