Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Sturrock (writer)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Ambrosiawater (talk) 05:18, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

John Sturrock (writer)

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No evidence of notability for Wikipedia. Likeanechointheforest (talk) 20:09, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 20:16, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep Full obituary in The Times. Passes WP:GNG. Edwardx (talk) 21:15, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep Self-evidently notable I would have thought. Apart from the obituaries he received, he wrote a number of scholarly books as a search of the British Library catalogue shows. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:40, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep... He is a scholar. If I remember correctly, didn't he also translate Marcel Proust? Whispyhistory (talk) 19:53, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed, Days of Reading, Sodom and Gomorrah, and others. He only reviewed a translation of Remembrance of Things Past in the LRB. That is probably what you remember reading, in the past. Philafrenzy (talk) 20:01, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes..indeed... all started with Proust's brother, thank you. Whispyhistory (talk) 20:07, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did eating a madeleine remind you? Philafrenzy (talk) 20:13, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Of course...all the more reason not to delete. Whispyhistory (talk) 20:15, 10 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Notable translator of Stendahl and Proust into English. RomanSpa (talk) 06:51, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Obituary in The Times = notability. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:22, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There are many reliable sources present to pass GNG. Jaysonsands (talk) 11:46, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Besides the Times obit , which we consider definitive evidence of notability., he's the author of three books from OUP and one from CambridgeUP. It's a totally unjustified AfD nomination, to the point that I wonder what the nominator had in mind. DGG ( talk ) 23:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.