Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gun Choi


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The result was delete. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 16:42, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Gun Choi

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Article PRODded with reason "Drummed up bio with large list of publications by (not about) the subject. Is said to be "president" (in fact, secretary general) of the grandiose sounding "World Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Techniques", which, in fact, has just 51 members... No indication whatsoever that this meets WP:ACADEMIC." Article dePRODded with reason "Notable due to holding highest level administrative post at major hospital", apparently a reference to WP:ACADEMIC#6. No other evidence of notability was added (although the huge list of publications has been removed). However, heading a hospital is not an elected position and in addition it is not clear that this is a major hospital. It's website is bare bones and it isn't even clear to me whether there are any other physicians there than Dr. Choi. In short, we have no evidence of notability, hence: delete. Randykitty (talk) 06:03, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. He has won some awards, but these are his self-published claims in his own CV, so fails verification. And I cannot find evidence of notability of those awards. The "Foremost Scientist of the World" is a vanity award issued by the International Biographical Centre. The fact that such an award appears on a professional's CV makes me suspect that the other ones are equally non-notable. ~Anachronist (talk) 06:56, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete unless substantive, clearly-independent sources turn up (the language barrier makes this possible even when English-language searches fail). There are reasonably well cited publications on spinal issues by someone with his name (most likely him) in Google Scholar, so he could squeak out a pass of WP:PROF, rather than having to rely on WP:GNG, but even in that case we need adequate sources for our content about him. And while normally we would accept self-published sources such as a cv by a researcher, for factual details about their career, the vanity-press awards cast even that into doubt. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:31, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable surgeon.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:06, 11 August 2018 (UTC)


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