Deletion of Brigham D. Madsen

Comment: meets  as a publishing academic
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Comment: Madsen was a |notable author of widely cited and often reviewed history books. One reliable source wrote "Idaho-raised historians Leonard Arrington and Brigham Madsen made major contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of Utah and the Rocky Mountain West as well as to their home state
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Comment: Meets , therefore  is irrelevant. In addition to the previously mentioned obituaries in the ''Salt Lake Tribune'', ''Idaho State Journal'', and ''Utah Historical Quarterly'', his obit in ''https://continuum.utah.edu/uncategorized/in-memoriam-spring-2011/ Continuum, The Magazine of the University of Utah'', while not entirely independent of the subject, credibly documents his academic and administrative work at the University, and states two of his books received best nonfiction book of the year award by http://www.westerners-international.org/ Westerners International (admittedly not the most notable organization itself, but helps establish the niche prominence). Madsen's books have also received numerous reviews in scholarly journals (a JSTOR search yields over 200 hits in total), and not simple cursory, anodyne reviews: one reviewer writing in ''The Journal of American History'' notes: "Madsen has a tendency to repeat himself, and topics seem indiscriminately scattered throughout"https://www.jstor.org/stable/1888535. With multiple secondary reviews of his works, credible testament to his role as educator and scholar, and over https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79054796/ 7,000 library holdings on WorldCat there is adequate available material to satisfy  and create a neutral, reliably-sourced article without any original research. We need not base this deletion decision solely on 
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