Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theodore Baird
To me, Baird seems to have (or have had, |which is meant to the same thing here,) some degree of notability beyond the house. Looking through the standard GScholar hits (mostly entirely unrelated to him), there is at least one decently-cited paper by him http://www.jstor.org/stable/458270 and several others with a few citations - if one assumes that the citation counts are accurate, not enough to meet #1, but the papers all seem to be at least fifty years old and I suspect that GScholar is missing at least some of the older citations. What looks potentially more notable is his teaching activities, and especially the freshman composition course, at Amherst. Courses don't routinely have entire books written about them a generation after they were last taught but this one did - "Fencing with words: a history of writing instruction at Amherst College during the era of Theodore Baird, 1938-1966" by Robin Varnum (it's the book referred to in the NYT obituary linked to in the nomination). I haven't managed to look at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M6l2AAAACAAJ the book itself but on the basis of http://www.jaconlinejournal.com/archives/vol17.2/adams-fencing.pdf this review of it, there seems to be at least a plausible case that Baird meets #4. And there's more around, even if most of it is either reviews or citations of Varnum's book, reminiscences of former students or, as in http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hMRWj0C3gJwC&pg=PA269 this case, both
— User:PWilkinson, 14:26, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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