Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marc Straus

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The result was no consensus. MBisanz ^talk 21:04, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Marc Straus[edit]

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vanity puff-piece by single-purpose editor obviously close to subject. Others raised concerns about notability previously. Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 06:23, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete non-notable medical doctor, businessman and memoirist, in the last case his work is not even yet published.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:21, 6 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 02:15, 13 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —UY Scuti ^Talk 18:30, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep. He's notable all right. I did a Google search; and, after tiptoeing gingerly between sheaves of art gallery press releases, discovered an incident which the article strangely does not yet mention, but which I am writing up - Straus resigned from Boston University Medical School and several other positions, and was stripped of Federal funding for cancer research, after being implicated in a major case of scientific malpractice. I have half-a-dozen WP:RS citations ranging 1980-2007; this one is from the New York Times. Narky Blert (talk) 19:03, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Make that 14 good citations from newspapers, scientific journals, and books from reputable publishers (university presses and the like) ranging 1980-2015. None of them looks like a hatchet job. Some cite sources I can't find online. This seems to have been a major scandal. I'll need a day or so to distil the information down into a succinct WP:NPOV narration. Narky Blert (talk) 21:43, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

New section added, fully referenced. I also removed a {{db-author}} tag. I affirm my original recommendation of strong keep. Narky Blert (talk) 20:38, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I've just removed a second WP:G7 request on the article made within the last 24 hours: not supportable, after another editor has worked on it and has added WP:RS info. Draw your own conclusions. Narky Blert (talk) 23:51, 27 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete Article does appear a bit biased, however the fact that he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians puts it in a bit of a gray area with WP:PROF, specifically with criteria point 3. RegistryKey^(RegEdit) 19:13, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Notable, but needs rewriting to eliminate the trivia (I've started) . The only real question is emphasis, per BLP1E. Since the negative material is not a single event but ongoing, and is related to his professional qualifications, I think it qualifies for an article. DGG ( talk ) 04:57, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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