Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of overlooked scientific innovators


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 22:26, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

List of overlooked scientific innovators

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Contested PROD. "Overlooked" and "long after" are WP:OR and opinionated criteria. – Train2104 (t • c) 19:25, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:33, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:33, 20 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete, while no doubt the innovators are notable and worthy of being mentioned in a list article, the criteria for this particular list based on its title is completely unmeasurable and subjective. Ajf773 (talk) 20:09, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:LISTCRITERIA as a classic case of subjective criteria. We'd need reliable sources that each and every person is "overlooked," not just the list creator's opinion. It's just an impossibly vague and subjective idea. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 20:43, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Doesn't seem encyclopedic. It's closer to a list of trivia. Maybe there is an article about factors that lead to inventions being ignored and rediscovered, because the topic is covered in some books and articles, but because there's no real definition of what it is to be overlooked, it can't be made rigorous either by objective criteria or by treatment in authoritative sources (like the Four Great Inventions). --Colapeninsula (talk) 08:54, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as per everyone else. Bondegezou (talk) 14:51, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete – if there were widely-recognized criteria for "overlooked scientists," like we have for, say, the worst movies ever made, then it would be a different story. As it is, the page invites the question, "Overlooked by whom?" And why, for example, does it list William Harvey but not Ibn al-Nafis? Etc. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 21:33, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * We should include Ibn al-Nafis on a List of scientific innovators overlooked by the List of overlooked scientific innovators. Deli nk (talk) 19:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Leading us eventually to the List of scientific innovators overlooked by the overlooked scientific innovators' fathers' cousins' husbands' former roommates. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 03:40, 23 June 2017 (UTC)


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