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Since an IP is now edit warring over a notability tag that's been on the article for a while, I guess it's time for AfD. This seems to me to fail WP:NACADEMIC as someone who has only won minor awards and has received only passing mentions in news coverage, certainly not the "significant" coverage we'd expect for WP:GNG. Quantity doesn't equal quality. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:03, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:06, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Speedy Keep - per WP:PROF#1 based on citation counts in Google Scholar [1] Thsmi002 (talk) 03:14, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Thsmi002: Fyi, since this caused a bit of confusion earlier, "speedy keep" is not the same as "strong keep". Speedy keep has its own list of criteria at WP:SK, and isn't something to be thrown around lightly. – FenixFeather ^{(talk)(Contribs)} 22:20, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@FenixFeather: Thanks! Thsmi002 (talk) 11:24, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment This is a really hard one to analyse on WP:GNG grounds. Per WP:PROF, he is mentioned in several different papers, and is the lead on one or two of them with a bunch of citations. He's been name dropped in a bunch of different articles. He fails WP:NPOL. The article is so badly source-bombed and promotional that it's difficult to understand what exactly he's notable for, or how he would pass WP:NACADEMIC. I have no comment either way apart from the fact this at the very least needs WP:TNT, if not deletion. SportingFlyer talk 01:43, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Though he didn't win his race for Congress, he did get double digit % votes, seemed to have good fundraising according to FEC.gov website for his PA 10th campaign. FEC filings for his committee also showed 3 unions endorsements. And Science seemed to have done an in depth profile on him ^[1], which conforms to WP:SIGCOV.

• As for his academics, he has a first authored New England Journal of Medicine paper from 2009, and several first and senior author JAMA papers over the years, plus an H-Index of 62 (as of October 5, 2018)^[2]. NYT did a 2011 in depth profile^[3] and he had a few book chapter features over several years (e.g. this book chapter^[4] was also detailed). Various independent credible sources. Recommend strong keep, but agree it can be cleaned up slightly.Dthut (talk) 08:29, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• COMMENT He was recognized in 2012 with the Ten Outstanding Young Leaders (TOYL) Award from the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Recent TOYL award winners^[5] include members of the city council and Congress like Joe Kennedy III, Seth Moulton, and the unopposed incoming 2019 Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. Maryam Hu (talk) 20:20, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Note to closer: The following two comments were from contributors making their first and third edits to Wikipedia. SportingFlyer talk 20:27, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete?/Prof cites. I opened around half of the refs in the article, the coverage is mixed, from trivial to semi OK but based upon them alone I want to delete. I have a question mark in my vote because I can't remember how to read the PROF cites "count". So an explanation of what is a lot and what is little would be helfpul. Szzuk (talk) 09:27, 7 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• KEEP He is a pretty well known epidemiologist from Harvard. His page doesn't mention it - but he developed several commonly used scientific methods not mentioned on this Wiki page. For example, the 'Isotemporal Substitution' model used in physical activity epidemiology - he developed it originally. And it's pretty well known as described in this paper's 2nd paragraph quote that called his original paper (by Mekary et al) a "seminal" work^[1], which came from a systematic review of the 56 studies worldwide that have been arisen out of his method. Someone could maybe add this detail to his profile, though I agree the page should be cleaned up a little. I would pare down his awards list - maybe delete all the ones are that isn't the PD Soros and TOYL award, that someone mentioned above. But I recommend keeping his page. Sahiljain22 (talk) 09:39, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's the third comment or keep vote from an inexperienced contributor in four days - what exactly is going on here? SportingFlyer talk 10:19, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

SportingFlyer - its not an IP war. I know a few public health/medical research scientists have monitored his page over the years ever since 2014 when someone unscrupulous unfairly maligned and attacked him and his family (records under federal court). We just noticed the new deletion discussion and decided to chime in - but only on his scientific and public health work. Dthut (talk) 11:41, 8 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]