Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merlin Sheldrake

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 redirect to Entangled Life. Redirect to Entangled Life, as a notable work of his. Other information can be merged by regular editing. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 02:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Minimal evidence of passing WP:NPROF, doesn't seem to be that highly cited on Google Scholar. First book published this year, which does have a few independant reviews, but I'm not convinced is sufficient to pass WP:AUTHOR. Did have a piece in the New Yorker though - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-secrets-of-the-wood-wide-web. Maybe WP:TOOSOON...? Kj cheetham (talk) 21:30, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Kj cheetham (talk) 21:30, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Kj cheetham (talk) 21:30, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Biology-related deletion discussions. Tea2min (talk) 09:59, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Fresh PhD (2016), WP:TOOSOON to have acquired sufficient impact in the form of citations for WP:PROF#C1. And with only one book, published this year, he's not going to pass WP:AUTHOR yet, although it's with a major publisher and has major newspaper reviews listed. The book might be sufficiently notable for an article, in which case we could redirect Sheldrake to it. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:07, 2 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]
• Commment. The book is almost certainly notable, per [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 22:35, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect to Entangled Life, which meets WP:NBOOK#1. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 23:00, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Entangled Life, unless more biographical information turns up about Merlin Sheldrake himself that drastically changes the situation. XOR'easter (talk) 04:49, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Redirect and Merge, if the current biographical info is of interest to anyone, it belongs there. Or at least for the time being, as you say. --Paul Carpenter (talk) 09:36, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with and redirect to either Rupert Sheldrake or Jill Purce. As the person who started this article, I shall say that I merely started it to stop the name in the article on Jill Purce being in red wikilinks. However, if there is a redirect to either Rupert Sheldrake (Merlin Sheldrake's father) or Jill Purce (Merlin Sheldrake's mother) this should remove the red wikilinks. Vorbee (talk) 06:22, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, it would have been fine to just remove the links. --Paul Carpenter (talk) 09:36, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• It looks like this could go to a merge and redirect - the question is do we redirect the page to Entangled Life, to Rupert Sheldrake or to Jill Purce? Vorbee (talk) 15:05, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Vorbee: (As someone with a vested interest in Entangled Life, having just created it :) ) I think Entangled Life is better. Seems either arbitrary or duplicative to pick a parent and merge to that, and it's reasonable to have some "about the author" info in a page about the book. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 15:16, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Entangled Life, which didn't exist when I first nominated this. I see no benefit of merging to a parent article. -Kj cheetham (talk) 15:19, 3 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Entangled Life for now. TheodoreIndiana (talk) 03:54, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. He was written about in The New Yorker in 2016 and The Telegraph this year, and his book is reviewed well in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.--Filmgirlfannn (talk) 19:25, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Entangled Life. Too soon for WP:NPROF, and a single book falls under WP:BLP1E. It looks likely that they'll eventually merit their own article, but still WP:TOOSOON. It's more appropriate to redirect to the page about his work; his notable parents could be _briefly_ mentioned there. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:49, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Entangled Life.   // Timothy :: talk  16:37, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge, to either Rupert Sheldrake or Jill Purce. Alex-h (talk) 09:11, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• It looks like this could go to a redirect to Entangled Life, but could some information on the author still go there? Vorbee (talk) 06:42, 8 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Looks like some information has recently been included there. -Kj cheetham (talk) 07:55, 8 September 2020 (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.