Talk:Jesse Byock

This article was nominated for deletion on 3 October 2017. The result of the discussion was keep.

Notability

This page is primarily based on the same UCLA source. I'd like to open up a discussion here on the Talk Page regarding the notability of this page and whether it is significant enough to have an article on Wikipedia. I wouldn't consider Jesse Byock to be a public figure. I'm not finding a significant amount of information that would be considered to be notable/inclusive for an encyclopedia. LPW22 (talk) 18:34, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

He's definitely well known in Iceland. I think the page needs work but he's notable in his field. I'm really surprised his paper on Egils saga and Paget's disease is not mentioned here, that along with the Mosfell project are where most people would have heard of him, I think. Rorb lalorb (talk) 17:12, 10 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just some comments

First, Jesse Byock is not a History professor; he is a professor in the Scandinavian Studies section of the German department at UCLA.

http://scandinavian.ucla.edu/person/jesse-byock/

Secondly, the page was created by a user with multiple IDs all of whom have been banned.

I suspect this is an example of a paid placement.

Professor Byock is a perfectly typical humanities professor. He's not really a major figure, even in the field of Old Norse or Viking studies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.12.67.51 (talk) 03:20, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]