Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Allen Leff

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The result was keep. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esprit15d (talk • contribs)

[edit] Arthur Allen Leff

He was a faculty member at Yale but not really an important one if I recall correctly. This is also an "orphan page" -- D.T. Forrester, April 5 2008.

• Comment. Info from Yale Law School. Ha! (talk) 08:52, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Luksuh 16:51, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Seems at least marginally important, based on Ha!'s link. The man got a full-article obituary in the New York Times, which is usually a good sign of notability. [1] Zagalejo^^^ 18:23, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep — The individual clearly exists. That a page is not orphaned is not a reason to delete it; rather, it is a reason to seek out relevant pages and link to it from them. Kurt Weber (Go Colts!) 18:38, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, Kurt, this time you are definitely wrong: the individual does not exist since he died in 1981 (and there was an obituary in NYT about this). Not that it matters, since the issue is not past or present existence but notability.Nsk92 (talk) 16:04, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 18:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep -- full NYT obituary is sufficient evidence of notability. Jfire (talk) 19:03, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Merely a professor at Yale Law, referred to by famous people, but unnotable? A full NYT obit has always been taken not just as an indication of notability, but as conclusive evidence of it. The article needs to be expanded from it.DGG (talk) 20:38, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. This seems a clear-cut case. As noted by others, an NYT obituary is sufficient for notability and verifiability. The subject also held a named professorship at a prestigious institute and has been honoured by the creation of a fellowship in his memory. Espresso Addict (talk) 19:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

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