Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heather Joan Ross


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The result was speedy keep. Per WP:SKCRIT#1. The nominator has withdrawn the nomination and no one other than the nominator recommends that the page be deleted or redirected. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:39, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Heather Joan Ross

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Unref blp; does not appear to meet WP:PROF or WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 18:32, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 20:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Passes WP:PROF as past president of two notable medical societies. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 21:12, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Question. I can find only 28 citations to her published work on GS, which would scarcely make her world class. Can anybody help? Xxanthippe (talk) 21:34, 23 January 2018 (UTC).
 * Probably Keep. She's notable for her leadership of 2 scientific societies, but the article is highly promotional, and needs a lot of rewriting. Natureium (talk) 22:36, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The promotional prose turned out to be copyvios, so it had to go quickly. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 01:02, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Likely keep. I'm not sure where Google Scholar is getting confused for Xxanthippe, but PubMed has no trouble returning a couple hundred hits for HJ Ross.  (A handful of them are for a different H.J. Ross at the Mayo Clinic, but most of them seem to be the right Ross.  Maybe Google Scholar is getting mixed up because Ross has used different academic/institutional affiliations for different publications, and it's causing trouble with her indexing.)  The tone and content of the article when nominated for deletion were quite problematic, being both far too laudatory and having the feel of a cut-and-paste job.  It looks like XOR'easter has cleaned up the copyvios and thinned out the hagiography. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 01:22, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for this help but PubMed seems to list only the papers she has her name on as author, not the citations to the papers by others which are what counts for WP:Prof as just publishing stuff contributes nothing to notability. Searching for "H J Ross" on GS does much better with an h-index of around 50 which is fine for a high-cited field (but that may include others of the same name). I wish people who write these vapid BLPs of academics would take the trouble to make it easy to find citations. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:54, 24 January 2018 (UTC).
 * Her SCOPUS h-index is 40 . XOR&#39;easter (talk) 03:57, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this important information. For me this makes it a Keep. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:02, 24 January 2018 (UTC).


 * Keep -- meets WP:PROF and appears to be influential in her field. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:07, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep now that most of the promotion and copyvio has been removed (thanks XOR'easter). There's still too much "she likes long walks along the beach" personal-ad stuff here for my taste but it's a lot better than it was, and no longer at a level where TNT might be needed. She appears to pass both WP:PROF and #C6. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:34, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Withdraw nomination This seems to have been my error. Boleyn (talk) 06:28, 24 January 2018 (UTC)


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