Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Whitfield (inventor)


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 00:55, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Thomas Whitfield (inventor)

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Appears to fail the general notability guidance and WP:PROF guidelines. Miomi does not exist as a website and has had no evidence of impact on the enduring historic record, consequently failing WP:1E as evidence of notability. Fæ (talk) 13:45, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  -- Fæ (talk) 13:46, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:09, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:BIO requires significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. I grant that the 2009 Telegraph article is one such source, but I can find no more (from e.g. this Google News search), and I don't think a single 300-word article is substantial enough to satisfy WP:BASIC on its own. The other refs in the article are either not independent or do not include significant coverage of him. of course the article may be recreated in the future if more such sources are published. Qwfp (talk) 20:38, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Described as the author of multiple articles on ion channels, but only one is given and Whitfield is not the first author. I could find no others. Like Qwfp wrote, more news sources could make him notable in the future. MiRroar (talk) 22:50, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
 * DeleteArticle does not clearly satisfy WP:BIO. Edison (talk) 03:39, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete does not satisfy me either.  JBsupreme  ( talk ) ✄ ✄ ✄	 07:41, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
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