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The result was keep. Doczilla Ohhhhhh, no! 07:35, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Catherine McDermott (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)
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Unreferenced and fails WP:PROF. Uhooep (talk) 05:32, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Criterion 2 is "has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level". (Emphasis mine.)
- Criterion 3 is "has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association or a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor".
- Times Higher Education reports McDermott as a National Teaching Fellow, "Fifty-five people working in universities have been named as the latest winners of the sector’s top honour for teaching and learning".[1]
- Jonathan Deamer (talk) 11:22, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- I make the argument below that it is at least a contribution under C4 (significant contributions to higher education) even if the community does not choose to call it a C3 (scholarly society), which I would. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 19:42, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep
based on the presumption that the aforementioned National Teaching Fellowship does, in fact, qualify as a "highly selective and prestigious scholarly society." I am unfamiliar with this fellowship though, and it might not meet the mark. If consensus is reached that it is not sufficient to meet these criteria, then I will change to Delete, as this person's notability seems to ride on this award. Updating to Keep based on David Eppstein's discovery of the reviews, and the Design Week profile. nf utvol (talk) 17:02, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Reviews, towards a possible pass of WP:NAUTHOR, include [1][2]. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 17:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak keep per WP:AUTHOR, setting aside the question of whether the fellowship is significant. I found four reviews of two of her (many!) design books and added them to the article. Note that another book, Feel-Bad Postfeminism: Impasse, Resilience and Female Subjectivity in Popular Culture, is not hers: it's by a different Catherine McDermott, a lecturer of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per WP:AUTHOR (Eppstein's argument) and also per WP:PROF: British-full professor at a well-regarded institution is at the level that are notable at a research level; the National Teaching Fellowship is sufficiently selective to count strongly towards a C4 (contributions to higher education) or C3 notability. About half the books are from presses that are selective in their publications. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 19:39, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep.
Design historian Professor Catherine McDermott is one of design’s most prominent academics.
I know nothing about design but I'm assuming the authors of this article in Design Week probably do. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:46, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - good find @Necrothesp RE: the Design Week article. That moves me from neutral to keep. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 15:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. TJMSmith (talk) 01:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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