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Neutrality and Notability
The creator of this page, AirRuritania, appears to be a scholar at the University of Dayton who is a friend of the subject of the article. Additionally, notability needs to be established. Simply linking to a single review of a book the scholar wrote does not establish this, and as far as I know, Roshwald is not truly notable in his field.
Roshwald's examination of nationalism is a notable addition to the field of scholarship. His "Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modem Dilemmas" was a featured review in the American Historical Review (Oct2008, Vol. 113 Issue 4, p1100-1102) and was reviewed in Journal of Contemporary History (January 2009, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p182-184), Nations & Nationalism (Oct2008, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p637-663), Historian (Summer2008, Vol. 70 Issue 2, p407-409), Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient (Mar2008, Vol. 51 Issue 1, p151-155), American Journal of Sociology (Jan2008, Vol. 113 Issue 4, p1217-1219), Nationalism & Ethnic Politics (Winter2007, Vol. 13 Issue 4, p613-620), International History Review (september 2007, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p608-609), English Historical Review (June 2007, Vol. 122, p781-784), Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, & East European Studies; (Summer 2007, Vol. 66 Issue 2, p384), and the Times Higher Education Supplement (2/23/2007, Issue 1782, pXII-XII. 1/3p). On strength of his work, he was appointed to the editorial board of the Cambridge University Press journal "Nationalities Papers" (seen notice, Nationalities Papers. Nov2015, Vol. 43 Issue 6, pebi-ebi. 0p.) It is exceptionally difficult to have an academic monograph reviewed in top journals like American Historical Review or English Historical Review, and more impressive still to be 3 page featured publication in the AHR. This reflects the impact of the work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.164.169.175 (talk) 23:36, 19 November 2020 (UTC)Reply
Since his scholarship is referenced, and this page is wikilinked, from over a dozen other articles (see What Links Here), it would seem clear that his Notability within Wikipedia itself is significant. Deleting this page would thus have repercussions to a large number of other pages that cite him, as they do other historians, for an analysis of events. You may claim that he is not notable, but his opinions certainly are, and they are widely noted within WP. Sometimes the significance of a thing is more visible by the hole that its absence would create, as explored in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. --Eliyahu STalk17:18, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
