Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Swirski
It seems from the discussion above that he does not pass  #1 but Jaag's evidence persuades me that we should take a much closer look at whether he passes . Is he "regarded as an important figure or widely cited by his peers" (#1)? No, I think that's covered by the arguments against . Is he known for originating a significant new concept (#2)? The article argues for his "nobrow" concept but a Google scholar search for that word finds other earlier inventions of it as having more currency. Is his work the subject of "multiple independent periodical articles or reviews" (#3)? Maybe, maybe not. There is a review of his nobrow book in the ''Journal of American Studies'' but essentially all academic books get academic reviews; I think that should be counted in terms of  rather than  since it doesn't really speak to how the book was received in popular culture. And there is a review in "International Fiction Review", a forum that is not significant enough to have its own Wikipedia article. And there's a review of his Lem Reader in ''Canadian Slavonic Papers'' (another academic journal) which is spammed across multiple Google news archive entries but again doesn't really speak to popular culture. He's mentioned in http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/12/1026185107394.html The Age but in a fairly trivial way; the article isn't really about him or his works. And he's also mentioned in "The Lem Chronicles", Boston Globe 2002, but again that article seems to be primarily about Lem. Does his work belong to many significant libraries (#4)? ''From Lowbrow to Nobrow'' is in 265 libraries, about par for an academic book; his others are similar or fewer. And #5 is  again. So no criterion is really persuasive, but ultimately I decided on a keep because I think being an author of a half-dozen or so books from reputable publishers and that are of some interest to the general public should be enough for an article
— User:David, 21:43, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:AUTH||WP:PROF||WP:PROF||WP:AUTH||WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)