Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ned Kock

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

Seems to fail Wikipedia:Notability (academics). Article appears to be self written by a user here to promote his own work - see {{userlinks|Senortypant}}, {{userlinks|72.178.222.33}}, or most any of the other IPs in the Ned Kock article's edit history. MrOllie (talk) 22:14, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 01:04, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
• Keep.I am no longer maintaining this article. Still, my suggestion is to keep. None of the citation sources are to self-publications; they are media outlets, including prestigious ones (e.g., New York Times), and refereed journals. A Google search for “ned kock” (with quotes) returned 47,300 hits. The two books now listed in the article are with prestigious publishers – Springer and Sage. Amazon lists 13 books authored by Ned Kock, one of which is an encyclopedia. Kock is the editor-in-chief of an established journal, and is the author of 66 refereed journal articles (plus a number of invited articles in journals, book chapters, and proceedings papers). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Senortypant (talk • contribs) 13:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

:Note that this user has [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:NedKock.jpg self identified] as the article subject. The New York Times mention is trivial (a background quote in an article about email), not an article about Professor Kock. - MrOllie (talk) 15:30, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

:This self-identification point is a little off-topic, in my opinion, and incorrect. A picture can be owned by someone other than the subject of the picture. The point about the NY Times article is a valid one though, but that is not the only source - Senortypant —Preceding undated comment was added at 16:49, 28 October 2008 (UTC).

• weak keep. A google news search shows some good sources. It doesn't seem to be much, mainly based on press releases, but significant coverage altogether. The possible WP:COI issues are not grounds for deletion. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. The references in the article show notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:46, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. Meets academic/professor notability criterion #8 (editor-in-chief); established journal, broadly indexed, and carried full-text by ABI/INFORM. Eric Yurken (talk) 02:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

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