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This article was nominated for deletion on 18 August 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Notability

Some may ask "Is Hawkins more notable than some of the people who have re-links in the article". The answer is no. More comments in a minute.Johnpacklambert (talk) 18:42, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jay Fagan deserves an article. He was the foundering of the scholarly journal Fathering. It has a longer full title. I am still disgruntled at the unjustified, uncolsulted deletion of the article on Marie Cornwall who is the current editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion and I think the only editor that journal has had who does not have an article on them in wikipedia. So I am reticent to create too many articles, at times it seems to attrack delete-happy administrators, who will admit after deleting the category "Souther Baptists", and I quote "I know nothing about American Protestant Denominations". So why in the world did the guy delete a category that he knew nothing about?Johnpacklambert (talk) 18:46, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so there is no article on The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion's first editor Ralph Hood. I would say there ought to be. Maybe it is not clear if that journal is one that gives the editor-in-chief notability, but at least people should engage this clear attempt to prove notability and not engage in a speedy deletion without even giving anyone the chance to post a hang-on.Johnpacklambert (talk) 18:50, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't a part of the action on either of those articles, but I would say that being an editor of a journal that has an article does not automatically confer notability to its editor(s). If the journal is major and well-known outside its academic area, such as Lancet or JAMA, then an exception might be made to that, but otherwise, no. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 22:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]