Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mesoregion

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Does not meet the general notability guideline. Not widely established concept beyond a few none notable academics. Mootros (talk) 23:13, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

• Speedy Keep 1120 Google scholar hits, over 1300 G Book hits, with hundreds of different authors in dealing with the Americas, Europe, and Asia, showing very wide usage in geography, history, biology, meteorology, public health, political science, business, agriculture.etc.. For G Scholar and GS Books, about half of them are significant RS references so it can be greatly expanded. With respect to Brazil, it is a formal designation, as shown by the article Mesoregion (Brazil), and about half the GS hits refer to that country (leaving several hundred for the more general meaning). Possibly the articles can be combined. So on what basis does the nom. make his statement "a few non-notable academics"? This is why we have WP:BEFORE, and this nomination shows the results of ignoring that part of deletion policy. DGG ( talk ) 16:09, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
• Keep—meets the general notability guideline as used in e.g. the following sources: [http://books.google.com/books?id=wXnI-w9SAq0C&pg=PA80], [http://books.google.com/books?id=iU8edMhHrZIC&pg=PA131], [http://books.google.com/books?id=6RveDmHbIv8C&pg=PA19]. Also, notability is not recursive. Spacepotato (talk) 03:41, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

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