Deletion of Judaman Seecoomar

Comment: This seems to be one of a number of Guyanese-related AfDs which the nominator has posted fairly rapidly in the wake of rticles for deletion/Dennis Adonis, some of which seem to have suffered slightly from haste. In this case, schoolteaching seems not to have been done just for "a little while" but to have been his main adult career (not that the schoolteaching seems to have much relevance to his notability), and the PhD was finished and the book based on it published several years before his death - hew was, in fact, finishing a second book at the time of his death (and the books do seem to be the main claim to notability. The obituary used as a reference (which I added to the article a year or so back) is from The Guardian - and if, as in this case, an obituary in a major newspaper is more than a couple of paragraphs, that in itself is quite a strong indicator of likely notability. There are also some strong indications (for instance, http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/guyana-review/01/28/book-review-democratic-advance-and-conflict-resolution-in-post-colonial-guyana/ this review of the second book in a Guyanese newspaper) of the books getting substantial notice in Guyana - considering the apparent difficulty of finding Guyanese sources online (and consequent |systemic bias), I would tend to consider the obituary and the book review taken together as just about enough to establish notability. —&nbsp;Preceding Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned comment added by
Stance: keep
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