Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manuel Teixeira (linguist)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) –Davey2010^Talk 23:20, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Manuel Teixeira (linguist)

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My searches simply found nothing good (aside from two links almost to the bottom) and there's no good target for moving elsewhere for this article from February 2006 after it was split from the Kristang language article. SwisterTwister talk 06:17, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep as passing WP:PROF #1. I have wondered about people like Bible translators, because there are thousands of fairly anonymous missionaries around the world working on translations for languages which might have only a few hundred speakers. But many of these people are the foremost expert in the world regarding the linguistics of a particular language. Teixeira seems to be an example of someone in that category (e.g. https://books.google.com/books?id=temxAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA257) St Anselm (talk) 07:20, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep under WP:PROF #1, as St. Anselm points out, he is a widely cited historian whose work is discussed and cited by other historians of Portuguese India. Here: [1] is a search of his name + Kristang on books google. More to the point, here [2] is the same search using "Cristão" , turning up a lot of discussion of him and his work. And here [3] a search of books using his name + Macau turns up discussions of his in several languages.E.M.Gregory (talk) 19:35, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep An author search in WorldCat supports notability [4]. In my opinion, such a search should be a prerequisite towards a deletion of anyone likely to have written books. DGG ( talk ) 04:53, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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