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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 20:37, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Procedural nom, as this was previously prodded. The subject of this article does not meet WP:NPROF, in my view. The claim in the article that she is a "university professor" is misleading. She is indeed a professor at Athens State University (see [1]), but not a university professor in the sense of a distinguished professor. Likewise, the claim that she is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is misleading, because you can pay to join the society as a "fellow". She is not an honorary fellow, which is the distinguished designation (see list here: [2]). Her book ([3]), coauthored with several others, was not published in a major university press. It's possibly self-published, actually, because the name of the press is the same as that of the (now indeffed) creator of this article Stmaurice1. Her publications are listed here: [4]. Most of the hits on Scholar are for a different Debra Baird, and there's nothing on JSTOR. Procedural note: I also just prodded Clan Baird Society Worldwide, the society she is apparently the head of. (Now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clan Baird Society Worldwide following deprod.) AleatoryPonderings (talk) 20:33, 28 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete. I can't find any citations to the work that she is alleged to have published: Fails WP:Prof. Her publications are listed at Academia.edu, a commercial data base of dubious reputation. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:34, 29 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]
• Delete. To add to the thorough WP:BEFORE of the nomination, I searched for but could not find any book reviews that might allow her to pass WP:AUTHOR. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:59, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete although at first glance it looked okay, but further digging shows less notable than appeared. -Kj cheetham (talk) 10:17, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, Unfortunately I could not find enough citation for WP:Author, Alex-h (talk) 07:40, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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