Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David J. Simms
The Irish Times story linked from our article is about his wife, so it doesn't help. I did find http://www.independent.ie/national-news/academic-caught-up-in-factory-planning-dispute-76218.html another newspaper story about him, but it doesn't say anything about his academic notability (it's about his objection to a plan to build a factory near his holiday home) and would be a pretty slim basis on which to build a case for 
— User:David, 01:12, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
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