Talk:John Glad

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From my talk p.:

The bibliographic references prove his accomplishments; the cataloging is done by reliable third parties and establishes that he is the author of the works listed, and who it was that published them, and the number of libraries that hold them. The formal evidence that he meets WP:AUTHOR are the third party reviews of his works in academic journals which I cited. Supporting evidence is the publishers; academic publishers use peer review. Further supporting evidence is the number of libraries that hold them and the languages they have been translated into. This provides the necessary notability for WP:AUTHOR. It also establishes notability as an authority in his field by WP:PROF. It would be really peculiar that we could not establish notability for any full professor at Harvard; that's not a formal criterion, but I don't think any such has ever been deleted and almost none have ever been to AfD.

These indexes of notability are much stronger for his earlier academic writings on Russian literary history than for his later writings on genetics. It is the academic work on literary history that establishes his notability. It would be somewhat more difficult trying to say that he notable based only on the work in genetics. I could probably do it, but there is no need to.

I have restored some of the material that was removed. It describes the topics of his later books, and the languages they have been translated in, and WorldCat is an excellent third party source for this material. The books themselves will also serve as a suitable source for the actual content of the books, a third party source is no more needed for that than for describing a plot, I've left that out for the moment, because I haven't read them, and the best way to support the material is by quotations.

I notice some of the routine facts in his biography were challenged. On what basis?

DGG ( talk ) 01:06, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I was curious, how come John Glad can translate other people's books from Russian, while his own book was translated to Russian by someone else?--24.203.108.54 (talk) 13:28, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]