Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Rich

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Dave Rich

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I don't think writing only one book is enough for a biography article. I think this article is almost a SPEEDY candidate frankly. ImTheIP (talk) 08:38, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. ImTheIP (talk) 08:38, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Meet
  WP:GNG for example [1],[2] --Shrike (talk) 08:59, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Delete There is nothing on the page about Dave Rich just a lot of stuff about anti-semitism and about a book he wrote, on anti-semitism, and his doctoral thesis, about anti-semitism. It's almost a copy paste from the page about the book.Selfstudier (talk) 11:15, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to article about the book. It's
  WP:BLP1E. While there's plenty of coverage of the book, the coverage of the author is incidental to that of the book, so I'm not seeing GNG. Comment that the Times of Israel piece seems to me to be solidly about the book; the book is certainly notable enough for an article, which could include some minimal details about the author. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 11:18, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply
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• Keep. There are over 600 hits for him in GNews. Some are reviews of his book and a few are articles by him, but the great majority are instances where he is quoted in the newsmedia as an expert on anti-semitism. Here are a few examples [3] [4][5][6][7][8] [9]. Satisfies
  WP:PROF#C7. Nsk92 (talk) 11:30, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply
  ]

A majority of those hits are for other people named Dave Rich. The first hit is for a nurse named Dave Rich, the second for a musician named Dave Rich and so on. ImTheIP (talk) 13:54, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above GNews search is unfiltered, with 1700+ results, and a lot of them are indeed false positives. A filtered GNews search "Dave Rich"+ "Jewish" produces 700+ hits and I did not see any false positives there. Nsk92 (talk) 14:11, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep besides being an author of a notable book, Rich fills a major community role in Community Security Trust, and in that context has received significant coverage such as [10] and [11]. He is also quoted far and wide on British antisemitism by multiple news organizations over a long period of time, as one of the leading experts on the topic.--Hippeus (talk) 11:33, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete He is merely a spokesperson for his employer, who funded the studies on which he based his book, and a useful source for the media of anti-Corbyn quotes. He is not an academic or established author and has no independent significance. Jontel (talk) 13:02, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wow. What a perfect example of a

WP:IDONTLIKEIT argument. Nsk92 (talk) 13:14, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply

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• Keep. Appears to meet the requirements of GNG, per Shrike, though just barely. Coretheapple (talk) 15:12, 9 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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