Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keone Penn


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The result was delete and redirect to Sickle cell disease. Black Kite (talk) 21:32, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Keone Penn

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Non-notable person, known only for " the first person in the world cured of sickle cell anemia through a cord blood transplant", and therefore fails WP:1E. Joseph2302 (talk) 11:36, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep the content somewhere, with the array of useful incoming redirects, because he does reliably seem to be the source of the nickname "Keone's law" for the legislation. If he isn't notable enough for his own article, the content ought to be mentioned somewhere within an article on Sickle cell disease or cord blood transplants. If there's nowhere else for this content and the redirects, then keep this article. Pam  D  16:01, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:48, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:48, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 04:44, 19 June 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Davewild (talk) 21:22, 26 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete The important detail is that sickle cell disease was cured, and how, not the patient. At most, the person's name could get a quick mention in an article about the disease, or the treatment, but other than that, this topic does not warrant a separate article.  "Keone's law" did appear to get signed into law, and with more research, there's a chance that could be deserving of an article; but I don't know much about notability precedents for state laws. -Verdatum (talk) 23:24, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above and WP:BLP1E or Redirect content to article on sickle cell disease.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 23:42, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to sickle cell disease. A reader might look up this person but there is not enough to sustain a biographical article.  J bh  Talk  00:14, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, reluctantly. He is not notable enough for an article, despite having a state law named for him. I would have recommended a merge/redirect to Sickle cell disease, but he and his cure are not mentioned there, and I wasn't able to add anything - because in a search I could find no source about his cure that would meet WP:MEDRS, as would be required for that article. --MelanieN (talk) 19:56, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect. This seems kind of significant, so please give me an hour or so to dig up WP:MEDRS-compliant sources, and develop three or four sourced sentences at Sickle-cell_disease.  Lockley (talk) 20:43, 4 July 2015 (UTC)


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