Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Maximowicz

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 07:18, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Carl Maximowicz
What makes this 19th century Russian botanist notable amongst other botanists in his domain? (Notability is not established in this article.) 31 hits on google. GRider\talk 22:41, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand. Notable botanist - first to introduced a number of previously unknown plant species to the West from Japan and East Asia. The orange tiger lily, maximowiczii is named in his honour. Megan1967 08:31, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable botanist and explorer of the Amurland with Leopold von Schrenck. Capitalistroadster 09:32, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. The article could do a much better job of establishing why he is notable. Carrp | Talk 06:46, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - but this notable botanist and naturalist deserves a better article  JoJan 12:37, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I have considerably expanded the article. You can remove now the request for deletion. JoJan 10:21, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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