Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donald E. Ingber


 * 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. I don't see this turning around in a day, and the original deletion was kicked off by a now-blocked sock, so there's not much point in letting it run. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 18:14, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Donald E. Ingber

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I speedied this as G11, but I've been asked to restore and bring here. I've removed the inappropriate ELs and Media sections, but what's left is promotional in tone and much is unsourced or sourced to non-RS Jimfbleak - talk to me?  05:20, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:22, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:23, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep. Being a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies should be enough to pass point 3 of WP:PROF. Being a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (see Recognition, 2011 in the article) is another basis for passing point 3. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 05:34, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per Eastmain - meets GNG as WP:Academic. Appears to be highly cited with 140k+ citations. H-index and G-index are in triple digits. —МандичкаYO 😜 09:53, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes WP:NACADEMIC. Ingber is Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard (Harvard page). Scholarly sources apart, there are other secondary sources discussing his work. For example, "From E. coli to Ebola: A device that can filter deadly pathogens out of the body", The Washington Post, 16 September 2014; "The man who built organs on chips", Cosmos, 18 January 2015; "Organs on chips", The Scientist, 28 August 2017. SarahSV (talk) 14:15, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly notable as above. - PKM (talk) 21:48, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment In my looking around I saw nothing that said this article shouldn't be kept. That said, it is unfortunate when a worthy subject's article is complicated by seemingly COI editors.  created Donald E. Ingber, Lung on a chip, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and contributed to Tensegrity. And basically very little else but what concerned Ingber and Boston Children's Hospital. Checking the other five links into the page finds an example where Ingber was added to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering page by, which seems the very definition of an SPA. I guess this is the continuing tension between cultivating the knowledgeable editor and wishing for the disinterested editor. Shenme (talk) 22:24, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


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