David Peter Kirby: Can find no significant coverage of this individual; at most he is mentioned in book reviews.  The article relies on a basic directory entry and a vague link to the entire University of Leicester website because some of his books are there.  Pickersgill-Cunliffe ( talk ) 23:37, 19 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Note:  This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions .  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:09, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Note:  This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions .  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:10, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Note:  This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions .  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 00:11, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Delete - fails general notability Mr Vili talk 00:35, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Keep .  WP:NAUTHOR , unusually, doesn't require biographical SIGCOV if there is enough coverage of the body of work.  I went looking for reviews of his books, to see how many pass WP:NBOOK .  For each book, I stopped when I found 2 reviews.  Marvels, Magic and Witchcraft in the North Riding of Yorkshire : [2] NBOOK pass - The Earliest English Kings [3] [4] NBOOK pass - The Making of Early England [5] [6] History and Tradition in Britain in the Early Middle Ages 2 gscholar cites, second discusses Kirby at length, but weirdly I don't turn up reviews Days of Joy: Robert Hird at Home in Bedale [7] NBOOK pass - Saint Wilfrid at Hexham [8] [9] It's quite possible that there are more than 3 NBOOK passes here but I have seen enough to be very comfortable with NAUTHOR.  Kirby appears to have been a prolific and respected historian.  ~ L 🌸 ( talk ) 03:50, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Hah, when I went to de-orphan the article, I also found that Wikipedia name-checks D. P. Kirby 94 times in articles ...  I know that's not an official notability criteria or anything but reinforces my sense that his writing has been influential and wiki readers will find it useful to have an article about him (hopefully, a more thorough one eventually).  ~ L 🌸 ( talk ) 04:09, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Keep .  This article is a stub which needs expansion, but it is about a respected historian of Early Medieval Britain and it is well referenced.  I have two of his books and cite them in articles.  Dudley Miles ( talk ) 07:00, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Keep per sources above, subject meets NAUTHOR.  Resonant Dis tor tion 14:03, 20 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Keep - As a professor in a UK university, he should be notable without more.   He is (or was) certainly a significant scholar in his field.  Peterkingiron ( talk ) 18:06, 21 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Keep an author who has written many books , he is surely notable.  GoldenBootWizard276 ( talk ) 19:53, 22 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] Keep per sources above meets NAUTHOR.  Tame Rhino ( talk ) 14:50, 25 January 2024 (UTC) [ reply ] The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.  Please do not modify it.  Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review ).  No further edits should be made to this page.

Discussion outcome: keep