Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Collins (academic)
With the Google scholar profile obviously not well curated, and Google scholar itself hopeless because of the common name, we'll have to look elsewhere for notability. He's not in the top 10% of economists as ranked by RePEc (approximately 4400 economists) https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html. He is however in the top 25% of UK economists, at number 669 out of 875 https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.uk.html (the same ranking places the department he heads as 78th in the UK). :Category:British economists and its subcategories have 529 members (possibly fewer if some people are in more than one subcategory). So I'm skeptical whether this is good enough for #C1, but maybe it's close. His book ''Playing the Love Market'' has one academic review that I found http://www.jstor.org/stable/4005383 and his edited volume ''Cities of Pleasure'' has two http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/23207 http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/25011522/cities-pleasure-sex-urban-socialscape. These give a plausible but quite weak case for . But I'm not seeing anything that makes notability clear, and I'd rather not let a bunch of lesser things add up to more than they are
— User:David, 07:37, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)