The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. John254 00:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gordon Claridge (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Delete this bio stub for insufficient and unverified notability. Doczilla (talk) 05:34, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:50, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Searching for his name and specialty in Google Scholar returns 734 hits. Giving Oxford's idiosyncratic rank system, I'd think an emeritus professor there carries a default assumption of likely notability, much more than at other universities. And I find the nominator's claim of difficulty verifying any of this puzzling. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. Professor at Oxford is notable in itself; it's a title reserved to the eminent few, unlike at many universities. There's a more detailed bio here, on the occasion of him giving a prize lecture for the British Psychological Society. Web of Science brings up dozens of articles, some cited hundreds of times. Biggest hit: "Schizotypy and hemisphere function—I Theoretical considerations and the measurement of schizotypy", Personality and Individual Differences 5:6 (1984), pp. 633-648, Times Cited: 266. Meets WP:PROFTEST --Paularblaster (talk) 08:42, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per above. Article should be expanded and wikified, I guess. --Crusio (talk) 09:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep I suggest this article, which I have expanded, should be removed from the Deletion list. Claridge is notable for his role in the development of the concept of schizotypy, a concept which is generating research in a number of different countries, and which has implications for the treatment of mental disorder.Ranger2006
  • The general pattern is that Articles for Deletion will list an article for five days before an admin reviews it and either deletes it from the list or removes from the active list of articles being considered for deletion. An article will not usually be removed from consideration before then, except when the issue is completely cut and dried; e.g. a national president.--Prosfilaes 23:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • It doesn't have to be quite that obvious to be closed early; I think we may have a solid enough set of keeps here to invoke WP:SNOW. But it requires a neutral administrator happening by some chance to view the AfD and agreeing. —David Eppstein 16:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and expand, looks to be a notable professor. RFerreira 08:29, 2 December 2007 (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.