Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John R. Adler


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The result was Nomination withdrawn - reason for nomination no longer exists. Nouniquenames (talk) 04:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

John R. Adler

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BLP with no citations. PRODed - contested with "This article has many sources - they are misplaced into External links" External links are: 1 press release, youtube, and primary sources Nouniquenames (talk) 05:18, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 *  Delete  Keep Completely unreferenced puffery. Would have tagged for db-promo except there's some SPA guarding it. EEng (talk) 05:51, 11 July 2012 (UTC) Meets PROF #5
 * Hi, who is the SPA "guarding" the article? I could not identify who you are speaking of from the history. thanks - KillerChihuahua ?!? 12:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete The article reads a bit like a self-promotional piece on John Adler but I see no reliable sources for his notability. The first weblink really doesn't mention him and the Accuray webpage doesn't either. Both can't be considered a reliable source anyway. Its hard to believe this article has been here since 2006 The article's creator made a few edits on Adler and a few topics in late 2006 and then left wikipedia...forever. --Artene50 (talk) 08:34, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup, removing puffery,; notable per WP:PROF #5, as well as as made a minor contribution to medical equipment; founder of a company which also meets notability requirements, the article of which is also a puff piece requiring cleanup. However, puffery is to be rephrased and cleaned up, it is not a reason for deletion. KillerChihuahua ?!? 12:07, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep This guy is obviously notable, both as former holder of an endowed professorship (when I went to verify that I found that he is now emeritus and so noted in the article) and as the inventor of a really significant piece of medical equipment, the CyberKnife. In addition, his highly-cited publication record confirms him as meeting WP:ACADEMIC. I found no puffery in the article; it has apparently been cleaned up since nomination. I put in some references (mostly self-referential, but adequate to verify claims) in place of the external links. --MelanieN (talk) 15:54, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep per MelanieN's reference's. --Artene50 (talk) 20:41, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Clear Keep. h-index around 40 passes WP:Prof easily. Thanks to MelanieN for saving this article. A bizarrely mistaken nomination. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC).
 * Article has improved significantly. Original deletion rationale no longer seems to apply.  I will gladly withdraw the nomination.  --Nouniquenames (talk) 04:19, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
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