Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter Greason
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The result was delete. Seraphimblade Talk to me 18:58, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Walter Greason
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]- Delete per nom. The subject fails multiple notability criteria. Majoreditor (talk) 20:06, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Not notable. Fails WP:BLP --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 00:10, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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- (1) Worldcat is a list of library holdings, not a measure of the number of times a work has been cited.
- (2) Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search are better, though not infallible, guides. The latter lists one paper by Greason, which has been cited once. The former has eleven listings for Greason: one is irrelevant, three are book reviews by Greason, two are articles by Greason (no citations), one is a book by someone else, and one is a book by Greason. The latter is cited at least once in this article. His work is grouped with several others in two footnotes. Choosing one of those at random, "Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community", which deals with a single neighbourhood in New York and was published nine years after Greason's work, I see that it has 280 citations. "Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia", which focuses largely on a single neighbourhood in NJ, has at least 105 citations. Even by the standards of his own discipline, he seems to be seldom cited.
- (3) Anyone can join SACRPH. The board of directors has at least one assistant professor, the lowest, non-tenured postgraduate academic position. The executive has several associate professors, the lowest tenured position. I see no concrete evidence that being on the board or executive of SACRPH is equivalent to, say, a Guggenheim Fellowship or a Fellowship of a Royal Society. Alexrexpvt (talk) 05:40, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Afterthought: If you use Worldcat to measure the number of holdings worldwide, you'll see that, e. g., Marc Lamont Hill has 634 holdings compared to Greason's 57. The author of "Black Corona", incidentally, has 1,914 holdings on Worldcat, and the author of "Our Town", 10,630. Alexrexpvt (talk) 06:44, 5 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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