Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anita Harding


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The result was   Nomination withdrawn. LibStar (talk) 23:57, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Anita Harding

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fails WP:BIO and WP:PROF. no extensive coverage of this individual. gnews and BBC. LibStar (talk) 00:47, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Keep. Harding is universally well known within neurology, and this nomination says more about the effort that has gone into establishing notability than her notability itself. After an extremely accomplished career she died young which is why popular contemporary news websites won't have much to say about her. She easily meeting the following criteria for academic notability:


 * The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources. Harding established the first, and still definitive, classification for hereditary ataxias: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1293984
 * The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level.
 * The person is or has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society) or a Fellow of a major scholarly society for which that is a highly selective honor (e.g., the IEEE).

I suggest beginning here which establishes the above, and work outwards from there: http://www.neurology.org/content/46/6/1770.extract Dubbin u &#124; t &#124; c 11:51, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Oppose. As already stated above she was the first to define a classification for hereditary ataxias, which helped in the understanding of for example the Huntington's disease. But the article itself can be much improved to better support her notability. SchreyP (messages) 20:07, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:13, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:13, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
 * @Xxanthippe: I mean oppose to delete this article, or like you say Keep. SchreyP (messages) 22:19, 7 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep with a GS h-index of 20 passes WP:Prof in a highly cited area. Obits add. Would the editors above like to tell us what they are opposing? Xxanthippe (talk) 22:02, 7 November 2012 (UTC).
 * Keep. Notability established per the above. JFW &#124; T@lk  22:58, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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