Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walter Cooper(doctor)


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The result was   keep. I am going to rename it to Walter Cooper (doctor) with a space (non-admin closure)  C T J F 8 3  chat 23:20, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Walter Cooper(doctor)

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non notable. having a PhD and being active in the local community isn't enough to satisfy WP:BIO. ccwaters (talk) 14:37, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 01:38, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
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 * Strong Keep Sufficient sources given in current article to meet WP:BIO. This is in no small part because, I feel, nominator has missed the importance of the subject. The subject was, in addition to being a corporate scientist, a pioneering civil rights activist and educator. has a good strong biographic blurb, which clearly meets the definition of significant coverage by an independent source (in this case, the library of the University of Rochester).  Ray  Talk 13:47, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: I would discount UofR as an independent source in this case: he's their alumnus and the subject of their press releases. ccwaters (talk) 01:04, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I would respectfully disagree. University libraries are research institutions, and not particularly beholden to their alumni in any significant way. Their intellectual independence is pretty well understood. Your statement is akin to saying that what Harvard produces about John F. Kennedy is suspect because he's an alum, or Princeton about John Foster Dulles. Ray  Talk 03:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
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 * Keep for reasons above. Xxanthippe (talk) 05:55, 25 October 2010 (UTC).
 * Strong keep - having served on the New York Board of Regents doesn't make someone notable? —Tim Pierce (talk) 16:53, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep but rename - possibly to Walter Cooper (scientist). He is clearly notable, not only for being on the Board of Regents, but also for having a public school named in his honor. I did a partial rewrite and re-organization of the article to make it flow better and make his notability more apparent. --MelanieN (talk) 06:01, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
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