Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawrence corey


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The result was keep. John254 01:57, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Lawrence corey

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Not quite an A7 speedy, as it does assert at least minor significance. But no sources are cited, and the article does not IMO indicate any clear notability, evne if every fact in it were well-cited. Reads like a resume or CV. Does not pass WP:BIO. Gilliam 17:45, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The article as it stands is brutal, but there's notability here. Looking at WP:PROF, there's a suggestion that "an academic repeatedly quoted in newspapers or newsmagazines may be considered to meet criterion 1." I get almost 400 Google News Archive hits on his name, and once you weed out some false positives, he's quoted in publications ranging as far back as 1984 (in Time Magazine no less). More recent quotes are from CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, et al (many stories appear to be through Associated Press). He also has a pretty damn big body of work in some prestigious journals. As the chair of a major university's virology division and the head investigator of a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases program, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, I think he's doing pretty well. Keep - but move to the properly capitalized name. Tony Fox (arf!) review? 19:51, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep "Corey is currently principal investigator of the U.S. HIV Vaccine Trials Network, head of the University of Washington’s Virology Division, and head of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Program in Infectious Diseases. He is also a professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington." The article is written like a CV, so what it needs is to be edited, not deleted. Inevitably, full professors at major universities will have sufficient publications sufficiently cited to have made an impact on their field--otherwise the University of Washington wouldn't have appointed and promoted him. DGG (talk) 20:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions.   —David Eppstein 21:12, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. Numerous papers in prestigious general medical journals eg NEJM, JAMA, Am J Med as well as numerous papers in high-quality specialist journals eg J Infect Dis, Clin Infect Dis, J Exp Med, Blood, J Pediatr etc etc. L Corey gets 648 Medline hits, a substantial proportion of which seem to relate to this person. Espresso Addict 01:13, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Further comment. I'm knowledgeable on HIV research, and would be prepared to work over the article once it stabilises. Espresso Addict 01:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
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