Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian Dowbiggin
I've already weighed-in above and would like only to draw the closing admin's attention to a few facts. First, the opinion that the subject's notability is borderline is nonsense on its face. Dowbiggin is a prolific author whose impact and notability are conclusively demonstrated by significant institutional holdings, for example http://www.worldcat.org/title/merciful-end-the-euthanasia-movement-in-modern-america/oclc/49248925&referer=brief_results 1476, http://www.worldcat.org/title/concise-history-of-euthanasia-life-death-god-and-medicine/oclc/57494087&referer=brief_results 562, http://www.worldcat.org/title/keeping-america-sane-psychiatry-and-eugenics-in-the-united-states-and-canada-1880-1940/oclc/36225156&referer=brief_results 474, http://www.worldcat.org/title/inheriting-madness-professionalization-and-psychiatric-knowledge-in-nineteenth-century-france/oclc/21372395&referer=brief_results 373, and so forth (there are more). These statistics are a clear pass of  #1 and likely surpass a large fraction of the academics currently on WP. Second, some of the "delete" arguments above seem to be based on pragmatism ("Who's gonna fix it?", "Better to delete than face an ''uphill struggle''"), the existence of socking ("this same 9-sockpuppeteer who edited the Dowbiggin article"), and ''ad hominem''-based agenda ("Dowbiggin is an idiot and a religious crank"), all of which are entirely irrelevant to this discussion. As with numerous other previous cases, this article should have the courtesy of being kept and properly cleaned, even if it involves a little work. Thanks
— User:Agricola44, 15:53, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)