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WP:BEFORE done. Looking at this article - created
19:54, March 20, 2011 -a reader would be easily persuaded that it is about an eminent British scientist, one Derek George Smyth. It would be expected that a scientist with co-author credits in 61 in papers in scholarly journals would have at least a page profile at least one of the universities he has been purported to work at
No results found for "Derek George Smyth" site:yale.edu.
No results found for "Derek George Smyth" site:rockefeller.edu.
Comment Except that if you search for ‘Derek Smyth peptide’ you come up with dozens of authored and co-authored papers like
this one, so if it’s a hoax it’s an incredibly elaborate one.
Mccapra (
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14:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
CommentAlmost certainly not a hoax.
doi:
10.1530/JME-16-0033 is published in the
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, for instance. It lists his affiliation as the William Harvey Research Institute as of 2016. He's not listed in their current faculty directory (
[1]), but the paper was published four years ago so it wouldn't be surprising if he'd moved on or retired. I'm actually not surprised that a scientist born in the 1920s isn't listed on the Yale or Rockefeller websites, because if he was affiliated with those institutions it would likely have been in the pre-Internet era. As for notability, he's a second or third author on two papers in Nature (
[2],
[3]), and a number of other widely cited papers, so a decent case for
WP:PROF. But I know most sciences have very high citation counts, so I'm not sure if his scholar result (
[4]) establishes notability just by citation count alone. I'll leave the !voting to the experts.
AleatoryPonderings (
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15:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. A google scholar search for "D G Smyth" shows many papers with hundreds of citations, surely passing
WP:NPROF C1. The article isn't in such great shape, but it appears that he mostly worked before the internet era, explaining the lack of online sources that the nominator was concerned about. Note that I'm uncertain whether fellowship in the RSC is sufficient for NPROF C3, although honorary fellowship surely would be.
Russ Woodroofe (
talk)
07:30, 9 September 2020 (UTC)reply
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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WP:BEFORE done. Looking at this article - created
19:54, March 20, 2011 -a reader would be easily persuaded that it is about an eminent British scientist, one Derek George Smyth. It would be expected that a scientist with co-author credits in 61 in papers in scholarly journals would have at least a page profile at least one of the universities he has been purported to work at
No results found for "Derek George Smyth" site:yale.edu.
No results found for "Derek George Smyth" site:rockefeller.edu.
Comment Except that if you search for ‘Derek Smyth peptide’ you come up with dozens of authored and co-authored papers like
this one, so if it’s a hoax it’s an incredibly elaborate one.
Mccapra (
talk)
14:07, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
CommentAlmost certainly not a hoax.
doi:
10.1530/JME-16-0033 is published in the
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, for instance. It lists his affiliation as the William Harvey Research Institute as of 2016. He's not listed in their current faculty directory (
[1]), but the paper was published four years ago so it wouldn't be surprising if he'd moved on or retired. I'm actually not surprised that a scientist born in the 1920s isn't listed on the Yale or Rockefeller websites, because if he was affiliated with those institutions it would likely have been in the pre-Internet era. As for notability, he's a second or third author on two papers in Nature (
[2],
[3]), and a number of other widely cited papers, so a decent case for
WP:PROF. But I know most sciences have very high citation counts, so I'm not sure if his scholar result (
[4]) establishes notability just by citation count alone. I'll leave the !voting to the experts.
AleatoryPonderings (
talk)
15:06, 7 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. A google scholar search for "D G Smyth" shows many papers with hundreds of citations, surely passing
WP:NPROF C1. The article isn't in such great shape, but it appears that he mostly worked before the internet era, explaining the lack of online sources that the nominator was concerned about. Note that I'm uncertain whether fellowship in the RSC is sufficient for NPROF C3, although honorary fellowship surely would be.
Russ Woodroofe (
talk)
07:30, 9 September 2020 (UTC)reply
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