Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Enrique Aguirre


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 16:25, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Enrique Aguirre

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I found one random PDF that attributed to him the discovery that HPV causes cervical cancer, but I can't track down any actual record of a published paper. The Spanish article is more comprehensive but doesn't really say if he actually published a paper about this or was the lead author. Es. wiki says this discovery was published in the American Journal of Gynaecology. If a scientist is notable for one discovery, it should be something that's not merely routine and is cited by many other scientists. I can't find any indication that this guy is notable. Calliopejen1 (talk) 17:05, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The discoverer of the link between HPV and cervical cancer was Harald zur Hausen. This is not exactly a secret: he won the Nobel Prize for it. Any claim that Aguirre discovered the link is at best mistaken. There's nothing notable about this guy. Eubulides (talk) 18:23, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia should not get into the business of publishing 30-odd year old claims that can't be verified. Bearian (talk) 21:40, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete If he did lead the group that made the discovery he would be notable, whether or not he did anything before or after, but one does not get to lead a research group without having published a good deal. The statement in the enWP is clear enough, so this is a little puzzling.  But the article in the esWP, in Google Translation, gives him a much less important role in the work. There is nobody relevant under any version of the name in PubMed or Scopus or WoS.   The source the enWP article uses to does not refer to him, but it deals with the later discovery of the vaccine, not the earlier discovery of the relationship: . If I decide to check   further and find something, I'll be back here to say so.    DGG ( talk ) 03:11, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Questionable notability. JFW | T@lk  22:08, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
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