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 02:56, 4 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

James F. Williams[edit]

AfDs for this article:

No references aside from random external links. Notability has not been sufficiently established. I tagged the article close to a week ago, but there's been no improvements since. Nja247 (talk • contribs) 10:49, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

* Delete unless claim to notability established. There may well be claims to notability for this person, but it's the responsibility of the author to find them, not the participants in a deletion discussion. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:13, 30 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —Espresso Addict (talk) 18:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 21:02, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, I'd be curious to hear from DGG on this one. That Dewey award might help with notability, but I couldn't find any news coverage on anything apart from the award. It's worth noting that the article in its current state is extensively copied from his UCB bio page (the order of sentences is different, but many of the sentences are the same). Nomoskedasticity (talk) 19:44, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Board member of CLIR is enough to demonstrate notability in the field of academic libraries. Being head of library is less significant, but given the national reputation he has established in the field, i'd say this at most needs verification and improvement. --Buridan (talk) 21:18, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Article needs more citations and references. His service on the boards of visitors of various universities, including prestigious ones, probably qualifies him as notable under WP:PROF criterion 4 (work has made a significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions). There is also evidence of either passing, or being very close to passing criterion 6 (elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution or major academic society).--Eric Yurken (talk) 23:22, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. It seems that the first AfD, which led to deletion, was for someone else. There the nom refers to a “non-notable artist”.--Eric Yurken (talk) 23:24, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Not altogether sure about this and would like to hear DGG's opinion, but as Eric Yurken noted, this does seem to pass criterion 4 of WP:PROF. In particular, there is a fairly prestigious award from the American Library Association that he got in 2002[1]. I did add a couple of references to the article. Nsk92 (talk) 16:38, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I'll accept this as a keep. However, this is still written far too much like a resume and needs significant rewriting. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 18:15, 3 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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