Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Sonett


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The result was keep. John254 04:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Joshua Sonett

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Article fails WP:BIO. Article was created by an WP:SPA account with no other edits other than related to columbiasurgery.org. possible copyvio http://www.columbiasurgery.org/about/dir_staff.html. Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article.Hu12 (talk) 07:07, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.   —Espresso Addict (talk) 23:00, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Full professor. Medline finds 45 papers for "JR Sonett", nearly all of which seem to be his, predominantly in respected subject-specific journals, including several reviews. Google Scholar finds 79 & 66 citations for two of his papers, and a further five with >20 citations. Operating on Clinton suggests leadership in his surgical field. Borderline, but probably meets WP:PROF. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:00, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —Espresso Addict (talk) 03:07, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Let's check him against the WP:PROF criteria:
 * 1) Two New York Times articles mentioned in article. Plenty more at Google News.
 * 2-4) Demonstrated by his citation record.
 * 5) The work on EDC organs.
 * 6) Awards are listed in the article.

Remember that only of these is required to pass WP:PROF. Phil Bridger (talk) 08:28, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * speedy keep I think itsclear by now that these were not reasonable nominations. DGG (talk) 00:43, 31 January 2008 (UTC)


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