Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Ursini
PhD discussion irrelevant: true. High-school teacher: true. ''However'', Ursini seems to be one of these special cases who, despite not working in an environment conducive to scholarship, has become an acknowledged expert through a hefty corpus of work. He has published http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22James+Ursini%22 numerous books, the important points being (1) many of them have respectable institutional holdings, e.g. http://www.worldcat.org/title/noir-style/oclc/41621707&referer=brief_results >700 for ''The noir style'' and http://www.worldcat.org/title/film-noir-reader/oclc/34284341&referer=brief_results >500 for ''Film noir reader'', with many of his other books ~200, which alone is arguably sufficient for  #1, (2) his books have been http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22James+Ursini%22 cited around 400 times in GS, (3) he has been referred to as an expert on film noir in mainstream publications, e.g. "from film noir experts James Ursini and Alain Silver" in Lansing State Journal of Jun 29, 2005 (unfortunately behind a http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/lansingstatejournal/access/1787097841.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+29%2C+2005&author=Will+Pfeifer&pub=Lansing+State+Journal&desc=Dark+plots%3A&pqatl=google paywall). I concede that the article is a mess, essentially an unsourced resume started by a  account. It should probably be stubbed until proper sourced info can be added. Thx
— User:Agricola44, 16:08, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:SPA (Wikipedia:Notability)