Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Hooker (bioengineer)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep (nac). Valoem  talk   contrib  12:28, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Brian Hooker (bioengineer)

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This is an article on an anti-vaccine activist (not that you'd know it from the content). It has two sources: a crank MMR-autism advocacy group and a notice of the retraction of his only well-known paper. It's a massive WP:BLP problem, it might just be OK as an article on the so-called "CDC whistleblower" hoax, which formed part of a slightly notable film by disgraced former doctor and research fraudster Andrew Wakefield. Guy (Help!) 22:01, 14 April 2016 (UTC) Guy (Help!) 22:01, 14 April 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 03:42, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep at best as I'm convinced by DGG's analysis. Delete at best and I can see this is questionable overall especially since my searches only found expected coverage. Not all yet convincing. Asking for analysis.  SwisterTwister   talk  23:21, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's ambiguous what "this is questionable" and "expected coverage" specifically refers to above. North America1000 12:57, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep.  Notable under WP:PROF on the basis of his publication record in conventional work. Clement TP, Sun Y, Hooker BS, Petersen JN. "Modeling multispecies reactive transport in ground water." Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation. 1998 May 1;18(2):79-92. has 242 cites in Google Scholar ; T. P. Clement, B. S. Hooker, R. S. Skeen "Macroscopic Models for Predicting Changes in Saturated Porous Media Properties Caused by Microbial Growth" has 182; Dai Z, Hooker BS, Anderson DB, Thomas SR. "Expression of Acidothermus cellulolyticus endoglucanase E1 in transgenic tobacco: biochemical characteristics and physiological effects"  Transgenic Research. 2000 Feb 1;9(1):43-54 has 92;  h=22.  I am unclear to to what extent he may be notable as a vaccine denialis, but I think it should be mentioned more prominently in the paper. I do not see any BLP problem, and I would like  to specify exactly what it is. .  DGG ( talk ) 01:45, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete advocate of fringe ideas who lacks in depth enough coverage to establish notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:45, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 12:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &mdash; Music1201  talk  02:06, 7 May 2016 (UTC)


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