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The result was Keep.
WP:SNOW and Non admin close.
Szzuk (
talk) 19:19, 27 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep - Dean of the Astrophysics Department of Oxford University alone is notable. ShoesssSTalk 18:54, 23 October 2014 (UTC)reply
But we don't have any independent verification of this. Incidentally, there is no Astrophysics Department at Oxford.
jps (
talk) 15:04, 24 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Roger Davies (astrophysicist) is currently head of astrophysics at Oxford, which is part of the Department of Physics.
[1] There are a few reliable sources pointing to Clube's association with astrophysics at Oxford, but I haven't been able to verify that he was Dean. -
Location (
talk) 15:31, 24 October 2014 (UTC)reply
There isn't currently a department of astrophysics at Oxford, but physics at Oxford has undergone several reorganisations over the years. I can't find any reliable evidence that Clube was ever head of any department at Oxford, however. Deans at Oxford are college posts (see
Dean (education)#United Kingdom) and are not a marker of
WP:notability (apart perhaps from the Dean of
Christ Church who is the
Head of House).
Qwfp (
talk) 11:34, 26 October 2014 (UTC)reply
WP:NCRICKET seems to indicate otherwise. Just because it was a first-class cricket match does not mean it was a "major match".
jps (
talk) 16:19, 24 October 2014 (UTC)reply
WP:NCRICKET is poorly written, but the intention of the phrase "major cricket" is to blanket cover all first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. Harriastalk 06:39, 25 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep - The nominator states the article fails
WP:ATHLETE, but it seems has failed to check out
WP:CRIN. His appearances in first-class cricket matches (which are considered major cricket, be it county or university level in England) ensures the articles notability.
PinchHittingLeggy (
talk) 19:33, 24 October 2014 (UTC)reply
It is absurd to say that every person who has ever appeared in a university cricket match is notable. That is not the intention of
WP:NCRICKET.
jps (
talk) 03:01, 25 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Actually, it is. Rightly or wrongly, that is currently the inclusion criteria for cricketers. Harriastalk 06:39, 25 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep, has played a first-class cricket match, and therefore meets
WP:NCRICKET. As an aside I have requested a discussion of a re-write of the
WP:NCRICKET criteria to replace the phrase "major cricket match" with a more precise list. My initial note can be found on the Talk page of
Wikipedia talk:Notability (sports). —
Perry Middlemiss (
talk) 22:20, 25 October 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep'. A somewhat
heterodox astrophysicist, but, I think, a notable enough one to meet
WP:ACADEMIC and
WP:GNG.
According to WorldCat, The cosmic serpent : a catastrophist view of earth history is held by 540 libraries worldwide, and The cosmic winter by 316.
According to Google Scholar he has 5 publications with over 100 citations, all as first or second author out of two or three authors (so without the hugely multiple authorship common in e.g. particle physics). His research and theories have been the subject of
significant coverage with multiple quotes from him in the Independent on Sunday (
1994 open access), The Times (
1990NewsBank subscription or UK library card required), and The Sunday Times (
1994NewsBank subscription or UK library card required). There's also
a short biography of him in the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names; I can only access the first couple of sentences, but they at least
WP:verify his year of birth and that the cricketer and astrophysicist are the same person.
Qwfp (
talk) 11:34, 26 October 2014 (UTC)reply
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