Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Benjamin Golden

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 per WP:SNOW. (To Srnec: the nominator edited the AfD to add a period to their "not notable" rationale, just before you added your comment. I don't see the point in waiting for the creator of a bad nomination to realize their mistake.) —David Eppstein (talk) 16:59, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Benjamin Golden

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Not notable. Tyw7 (☎ Contact me! • Contributions) 16:33, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. He is one of the most promimemt expets in the Turkic history. Jingiby (talk) 17:52, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I'm surprise this is up for deletion. Peter Golden is one of the best-known scholars on the history of the Turkic people, and wrote numerous books on the Turkic people and Central Asia. His works are well-reviewed - I'll list just a few reviews for one of his best-known books An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples. Ethnogenesis and State-Formation in Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia and the Middle East, [1][2][3][4]. He is well-cited [5] (use Peter Golden rather than Peter Benjamin as search term in Google Books), and he is one of the editors of The Cambridge History of Inner Asia. He should easily qualify under WP:NACADEMICS #1. You just need to see how many Wikipedia pages are linked here to see how often his works are cited [6] (and there are many more articles that cited him without linking to this article). Hzh (talk) 18:00, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep just KEEP. Nom did not even provide a reason for deletion. WP:SNOW.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:05, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: "49 works in 5 languages and 3,709 library holdings". Many with uni presses for which reviews are available with about 100% certainty. More than enough for WP:AUTHOR. The list of publications needs to be pruned though - it actually obscures the significance of the subject's body of work. K.e.coffman (talk) 21:43, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep The nom has offered an argument to avoid. If they cannot bother to offer a legitimate rationale, the community shouldn't have to entertain this AFD for seven days.TheGracefulSlick (talk) 23:26, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I was going to perform a non-admin closure as "snowball keep", but since the nominator has not edited WP since nominating this page, I thought it better to wait and see if s/he wishes to withdraw or else defend the choice. Srnec (talk) 15:06, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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