Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fred Rogers Fairchild

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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The result was withdrawn per improvements. >Radiant< 08:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fred Rogers Fairchild

Contested prod, and in the "lacking importance" category since last June. He's an economist who's written a few articles, but appears to fail the "average professor test" from WP:BIO, and the article has no external sources. >Radiant< 12:28, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I have tried to find a few references, and some of them are recent, so for a long dead economist, I think that indicates a certain level of notability. I think part of the problem may be that his notability was much higher at the time of the New Deal, but his influence can still be felt in economic thought today. I am not religiously devoted to this guy, but I think it might take a while to find the references that are needed for attributable notability. -- Jvv62 18:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Jvv62; I've added some references. If you look at "Find sources: Fred Rogers Fairchild — news, books, scholar", there appears to be sufficient material, if thinly spread, to write a decent aticle. Addhoc 12:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The article is substantially improved since the AFD (see diff). Scholars in the early part of the 20th century were not as prolific publishers as in the latter part of the century, so the fact that he's written only "a few articles" is nothing against him. As a professor at Yale and an honorary member of the National Tax Association, I think he significantly exceeds the "average professor test". His notability has since been proven by the addition of multiple sources. -- Black Falcon 18:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep now that it's been expanded and sourced. Named chair at Yale, secondary sources explicitly calling him an "eminent scholar", published textbooks and reviews of those textbooks — these all make it seem a clear pass for WP:PROF, especially in view of the difficulty of finding information about scholars in that time frame relative to today. —David Eppstein 23:23, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
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