Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leon S. Robertson


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was No consensus. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-25 04:26Z 

Leon S. Robertson

 * – (View AfD) (View log)

Tough call here. This man has produced a forest of literature, but doesn't seem to have the peer recognition that is typical of notable figures. He has maybe 1000 ghits that actually refer to him. I am concerned about a possible conflict of interest. The author of the article was User:Nanlee, and it says here that Robertson now works at Nanlee research. Yes, I'm weird, but it does help to know these things. YechielMan 08:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Delete unless sourced and referenced i.a.w. WP:BIO and/or WP:PROF by end of this AfD Alf photoman 17:08, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think we ought to err on the side of caution here.  The person in question does pass seem to be notable as evidenced by his support for a Congressional candidate, being president of Nanlee Research, and the fact that Johns Hopkins University has a named professorship in Robertson's honor: "Leon Robertson Faculty Development Professor in Injury Prevention in the Department of International Health". I will add some of these sources to the article. -- Black Falcon 18:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The inexperienced author of the article did not bring out the fact that in addition to having a chair named after him, he was visiting Professor at several universities, a member of the editorial board of at least one major journal, has published 147 articles in peer-reviewed journals, is on the editorial Board of BMJ and had a truly distinguished career in research administration. However, he never held a full professorship at a major university, which is what complicates the evaluation of his work, for we do not really have good standards for evaluating administrators. But he certainly qualifies. The article, however, will have to be rewritten, since it is a cut and paste copy of http://www.nanlee.net/. including the distinctive capitalization. It is possible that the organization will be willing to license the material under GFDK, but the article still will have to be written to be a more accurate representation of his accomplishments. DGG 04:06, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.