Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Stelzer


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The result was delete. Stifle (talk) 11:50, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

Paul Stelzer

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Seeking consensus on this one. The article claims (without substantial sourcing) that he is a pioneer of the Ross procedure, but even his profile at Mount Sinai Hospital doesn't go so far as this article does, and it's not clear to me whether his being a pioneer of the Ross procedure—which I was not able to verify—would make him notable. WP:NPROF/WP:NAUTHOR seem like possible SNGs, given that he has co-authored a number of widely cited papers (e.g., in NEJM). Seems like he's a fairly well-respected cardiothoracic surgeon, but I'm not sure if he passes the relevant standards. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 22:45, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete the sourcing is not enough to pass GNG, and nothing suggests that he passes any academic notablity guideline.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:38, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Medicine is a high-citation field but he has a borderline case for WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:14, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Stefka Bulgaria (talk) 07:51, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. His highly cited articles have an extremely larger number of coauthors, and he is middle author in a field where that matters.  By the time you get down to papers with a reasonable number of coauthors and/or where he is lead/trailing author, the citation counts are around 100.  In a high citation field, that looks pretty borderline for WP:NPROF C1.  Meanwhile, there is tension with WP:TNT: the article is fairly promotional in tone.  I couldn't find any independent source that considers him to be the top world expert in the Ross procedure. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 08:02, 6 September 2020 (UTC)


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