Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Hall (molecular biologist)


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The result was Delete. Michig (talk) 08:03, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Alan Hall (molecular biologist)

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You may wnat to see the previous AFd at Articles for deletion/Alan Hall (biologist) but anyway. The problems here are as follows:


 * 1) I would bet my mortgage on this being an autobiographical vanity page.  It contains far too much information that only the subject or someone very close to the subject would know.
 * 2) He doesn't appear to meet WP:PROF.
 * 3) It was previously deleted
 * 4) Until his recent death there is another biologist and oncologist, Alan Hall, who was clearly notable.  Confusing the two has been quite common, so for avoidance of doubt by those who might be missing a few brain cells - they are different people and therefore they should be treated as different people.

02:07, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can't find anything written about him. The sources in the article are papers he has written and further research in the area. He seems to have been an advancing academic in his field, but his latest published work was in 1996 when he was only 43 years old. What did he do next since no date is given for his death? There is nothing to show that he was notable back then. We don't even know what the level of his academic position was at Cambridge. StarryGrandma (talk) 17:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete he wasn't notable last time around, and still isn't. Opabinia regalis (talk) 23:31, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. I think the previous deletion was less about notability and more about the mess caused by confusing the two AH's. Regardless, we don't have evidence for passing WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:41, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment I did some clean up, but I'm not convinced. Too great emphasis on postdoc positions is a good indication of not yet being ntoable.  DGG ( talk ) 02:24, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Very, very, un-notable. SilverSurfingSerpant (talk) 02:05, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 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.