Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe E. Holoubek

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The result was DELETE - Nabla 20:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Joe E. Holoubek[edit]

Non notable author. Not widely known of or a significant expert so fails Wikipedia:Notability (people) and Wikipedia:Notability (academics). Article reads like an obituary because that newspaper obituaries are the primary sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by William Graham (talk • contribs)

Puzzled. This isn't the usual career of an academic. Claims " founder of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport " which sounds impressive except it's based on a quote in a local newspaper. Butt here is something which might counts: "president from 1961-1963 of the Catholic Medical Association."

as a writer of inspirational literature, I can't judge. As medical science, If his accounts of Jesus' death, have been referred to as standard works in other such papers, that might reasonably be notability. I've seen at least one paper on the subject in JAMA--I wonder what I'll find. DGG 01:42, 27 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fuhghettaboutit 04:58, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete NN as a researcher: checking in the indexes, 16 articles of his are listed in Web of Science, only 94 citations total; only one paper deals with crucifixion: Holubek JE, Holubek AB, Execution by Crucifixion--History, Methods, and Cause of Death. Journal of Medicine 26 (1-2): 1-16 1995 Times Cited: 2 Maslen MW, Mitchell PD, Medical theories on the cause of death in crucifixion Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 99 (4): 185-188 APR 2006 and Holoubek JE, Holoubek AB Blood, sweat and fear - A classification of hematidrosis Journal of Medicine 27 (3-4): 115-133 1996 (hematidrosis=sweating blood);

There may be other minor papers not listed there.

He may conceivably be notable as a medical administrator. DGG 01:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete due to lack of documentation on his status as a professor and researcher. Not enough notability without that. The things people write about him are (1) practiced internal medicine for 40 years, (2) wrote inspirational books, (3) helped promote the creation of the Shreveport branch of the LSU medical school. Along the way he was a clinical professor of medicine but it's not clear if that was more than a courtesy title. DGG found some of his medical publications but they seem rather limited. He mentions one publication that got two citations. EdJohnston 19:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 22:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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