Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Denis Dutton
One could argue about whether or not DD satisfies the requirements of  (GoogleScholar produces very little but there seems to be quite a bit of coverage of him in conventional media sources, so that one could argue that criterion 1 of  is satisfied). Regardless, I think that he does satisfy the requirements of  as a notable media personality, a kind of Bill Nye the Science Guy media expert on literary matters. There is quite a bit of coverage of DD in conventional media that treats him in this fashion. NYT alone has a bunch of articles by him/about him/mentioning him, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/opinion/26dutton.html?scp=4&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt,http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/business/media/06plagiarism.html?scp=5&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt,http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/science/03cute.html?scp=6&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt,http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE4DC1F3FF937A35752C0A9659C8B63&scp=7&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt,http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6D81538F932A25752C1A9669C8B63&scp=8&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt,http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E2D9143CF934A15751C0A96F958260&scp=9&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt,http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940CE7DD113CF937A15751C1A96E958260&scp=11&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt. E.g., a quote from http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E6D81538F932A25752C1A9669C8B63&scp=8&sq=%22Denis+dutton%22&st=nyt: "Denis Dutton, a cherubic 56-year-old philosophy professor, has spent most of his professional career writing books on the theory of aesthetics and teaching Plato in New Zealand. But recently he has turned into a minor media celebrity, a cyberpublishing prophet who is invited to speak at e-book conferences from Los Angeles to New York." That describes the nature of his notability rather well
— User:Nsk92, 20:09, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)