Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/W. Roy Smythe


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  12:30, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

W. Roy Smythe

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Lack of notability and reliable sources to warrant the subject his own article. Rosalina2427 (talk to me) 20:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete: Vanity autobiography; fails WP:GNG. -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  01:17, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable medical doctor.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:17, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment: No indication of Wikipedia notability per WP:BIO or WP:GNG, and the creator of the article and one of its main contributors is ; so, this might've been an attempt to create WP:AUTOBIO. The article seems to have slipped by unnoticed for the most part until it started to attract attention due to WP:THQ. Even though it's been trimmed quite a bit over the past day or so, there also don't seem to be any possiblities of merging or redirecting this; so, I can't see any real benefit of keeping it without some better indication of Wikipedia notability at first glance.Having posted that, it does appear that Smythe (or someone also named W. Roy Smythe) has written a number of articles for Discover (magazine) as shown here and also contributed to Encyclopædia Britannica (see here), and as been published in Chest (journal) (see here) as well as some other peer-reviewed journals like American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (see here) and The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (see here), etc.; so, there might actually be something for someone familiar with these types of articles to work with to create at least a viable stub per WP:ACADEMIC by keeping control of the WP:APPARENTCOI editing. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:13, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment In line with the points made by Marchjuly above it does appear that Smythe is probably notable as per WP:PROF for a number of reasons, including high citation counts on his academic papers and former position as Roney Endowed Chair and Professor of Surgery, Medicine and Molecular Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine (see here). He has also just been named CEO of SomaLogic, which may contribute to notability through other guidelines. IntoThinAir (talk) 00:54, 22 November 2018 (UTC)


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