Talk:Harvard Medical School/Archive 1

Alumni
Anyone on if the notable alumni list is a bit too long? It makes the article appear rather listish Gtadoc 21:05, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Wasn't Elle Woods HLS? Why on HMS alumni list?

Yes, this list is much too long and it doesn't list the year of graduation for anyone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.136.203 (talk) 22:09, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * A shorter list of the most notable would be more useful. I have removed a few today with no articles: please provide citations for such people in future. The whole list could be made into a list article (separate).--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 14:20, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

For that matter, is the fictional list of alumni necessary at all either? 68.84.111.168 (talk) 07:02, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

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This article needs a criticism section
Here are two relevant refs:

Harvard Medical Students Rebel Against Pharma-Ties

Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary MaxPont (talk) 14:29, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Welcome, new editors
A number of new editors have been active on the article today. I'm wondering... is this a class project or something?  E Eng  01:55, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Notable Alumni section
In re:Notable alumni - a page exists that lists the alumni of Harvard University as a whole. There is a section for medical alumni. Merger is suggested. FriarTuck1981 (talk) 08:23, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * At 367,507 bytes that page is already huge. I wouldn't be keen to make it any bigger. It groups the people by different criteria, so not an easy merge. Medical alumni are split up into several different lists. wbm1058 (talk) 19:31, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry I am a novice here, but would it make sense to have a page "Notable Harvard University Alumni/ae", that then lists other separate pages for each of the "schools" of Harvard, e.g. Harvard College, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, Radcliffe College, etc., that have notable alumni/ae? Hopefully this would make each actual list shorter. There could also be other pages for specific awards, e.g. Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, etc., that could merge alumni/ae from any of the schools who fit those criteria.Walterkem (talk) 02:29, 17 June 2017 (UTC)walterkem.
 * The Harvard "notables" lists have been a mess forever. Your general idea sounds good, but there are complications: some people are connected to Harvard in more than one way; the Harvard College/Radcliffe College relationship needs to be figured out. Meanwhile, over at List_of_Harvard_University_people, it's organized by area-of-endeavor rather than by manner-of-affiliation. The very bulk of the problem -- the number of people -- gives me a headache when I think about it. I'll help if I can, though.  E Eng  02:42, 17 June 2017 (UTC)

Inclusion of notable alumni/ae without articles in the main space would not be verifiable. Must be tagged for citation required or removed until there is an approved articleInfiNeuro (talk) 05:29, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. "The notability guideline does not determine the content of articles, but only whether the topic may have its own article." WP:LISTBIO also makes this explicit: "Inclusion in lists contained within articles should be determined by WP:SOURCELIST, in that the entries must have the same importance to the subject as would be required for the entry to be included in the text of the article according to Wikipedia policies and guidelines."
 * Of course, material in this article that has been challenged and is not supported by a cited source, including entries in this embedded list, can be tagged or removed. ElKevbo (talk) 05:37, 20 February 2022 (UTC)