Talk:Richard Gareth Davies
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Contested deletion edit
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... -- Richard Gareth Davies is a prominent entomologist and part author of one of the longest-used and major textbooks of biology of the 20th century. The fact that this article is as yet a stub reflects the difficulty of speedily obtaining personal material on the subject, not his personal lack of notability. That non-entomologists might not have heard of him or the textbook doesn't mean a thing at this stage; most of them haven't heard of entomology either.
To apply this criterion to a new stub in any case is totally unreasonable. If after a stub has been extended, someone can make out a case that the most notable attribute of Jo Blog is that she once attended a rained-out picnic, fine, but being the last active and surviving author of Imms' General Textbook of Entomology is in itself a matter of notability in science and education, and far more than enough to justify retention of a stub and as the starting basis of an article. JonRichfield (talk) 18:02, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
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