Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arran Gare

:{{la|Arran Gare}} ([{{fullurl:Arran Gare|wpReason={{urlencode: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arran Gare}}&action=delete}} delete]) – (View AfD)(View log)

A well-published academic, to be sure, but not necessarily notable under the criteria of Wikipedia:Notability (academics). He does seem to be chief editor of a journal in his subject area, but I'm not sure it is at all near "major" enough to qualify under criterion 8. Overall, this reads more like a truncated CV than a useful Wikipedia article. --Dynaflow babble 23:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

• Strong Keep Per that notability, he should stay, he is the chief editor and founder of a journal, fulfilling point #8, he has an academic post in a society for higher education per #6 and won a Fulbright Scholarship #2. If someone fits any of those criteria, they are considered notable. Pstanton 23:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pstanton (talk • contribs)

::His journal is Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, the article for which gives no indication of its circulation, its standing in the academic community (citations elsewhere, etc.), or anything else to show that it shouldn't itself be taken to AFD under Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Academic books. If this is a major, influential journal, the authors of its article forgot to mention it. As for the Fulbright Scholarship, are all 200,000 or so alumni notable enough thereby to get articles of their own? [EDIT:] Just to clarify, criterion 6 states, "The person has held a major highest-level elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution or major academic society." How "major" are these posts listed under Other Positions, per external, verifiable sources? --Dynaflow babble 23:39, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —John Z (talk) 23:41, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
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• Keep--Meets WP:PROF, chief and founding editor of a journal that is available in multiple academic libraries, http://library.georgetown.edu/newjour/c/msg03695.html Georgetown University, [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/journals/moreInfo.html?id=55971 2], J.Mundo (talk) 00:41, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
• Keep. Meets WP:PROF criterion #1 (significant impact in scholarly discipline, broadly construed). He has several books held by 300 or more libraries worldwide, according to WorldCat. I do not know much about the journal he founded, but it has been published continuously since 2005. Thus he probably meets WP:PROF criterion #8 (editor-in-chief of established journal) as well.--Eric Yurken (talk) 02:42, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
• Keep The journal is in fact significant: it is found in Worldcat twice, one with and without the subtitle, adding up to over 200 academic libraries. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61659807&referer=brief_results], [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/150174080&referer=brief_results] .Founding it therefore makes him a significant academic, when considered along with the books. DGG (talk) 04:49, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment 200 libraries for a new journal established only in 2005? I almost fell of my chair when I saw that. However.... This is an open-access journal, available for free on the web. Many libraries will simply list a link to such a journal on their sebsites and at it to their "holdings".... Given that the journal is very recent, it will be difficult to establish at this point whether it is "major", as it always takes a few years before citations start coming in (especially in a field like this). --Crusio (talk) 07:08, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

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