Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Benjamin E. Park
No need to delete article about author simply because he is a non-tenured instructor at a college; alas, even an independent scholar may be notable, per the guidelines. In Park's case he is a well-known author within his discipline, which indeed is a notable one (lest WP subtly discriminates for ideological reasons, a no-go per wp:BIAS. (For relative population of Mormons vis-a-vis Jews--the latter group known for its study remaining somewhat ghettoized from the rest of the academy as recently as the early 20th century--see Harold Bloom https://books.google.com/books?id=2y0mAQAAMAAJ&q= link): "...Jews form less of a tenth of one percent of the world's population. That is about the proportion of the Mormons..."; Pew Research Center (http://www.pewforum.org/2009/07/24/a-portrait-of-mormons-in-the-us/ link): "Mormons make up 1.7% of the American adult population, a proportion that is comparable in size to the U.S. Jewish population.")Park is a renowned author of scholarship within his discipline with plenty of reviews and sourcing otherwise, per wp:BIO, wp:AUTHOR (see Talk:Benjamin_E._Park#Sourcing) and the plain text at wp:PROF says it is but an alternate path designed for, say, a renowned chair in some field of study to merit a WP biography despite a lack of much sourcing ''about'' such an individual. See the summary at the bottom PROF's lede: "This guideline is independent from the other subject-specific notability guidelines, such as , ,  etc. and is explicitly listed as an alternative to the wp:N|General Notability Guideline. It is possible for an academic not to be notable under the provisions of this guideline but to be notable in some other way under one of the other subject-specific notability guidelines. Conversely, if an academic is notable under this guideline, his or her failure to meet either the General Notability Guideline or other subject-specific notability guidelines is irrelevant
— User:Hodgdon, 23:09, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:MUSIC||WP:AUTH (Wikipedia:Notability)