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19 Apr 2025 – Nathan Frink (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Fundy Isles Historian - J (t · c); see discussion

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08 May 2025 – Kat Milligan-McClellan (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
07 May 2025 – Paul H Elovitz (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
05 May 2025 – Enrico Fermi High School (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Clarityfiend (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
05 May 2025 – Scott A. Hoffinger (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
29 Apr 2025 – Peter Gibson (writer) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Sammi Brie (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 06 May 2025; see discussion (2 participants)
26 Apr 2025 – Mike Novotny (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Let'srun (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 03 May 2025; see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

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02 May 2025 – Category:Jewish American state legislators in Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by BlasterOfHouses (t · c); see discussion

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26 Jan 2025 – 2024 United States drone sightings (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Anne drew (t · c); start discussion

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08 Mar 2025 – History of West Haven, Connecticut (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to West Haven, Connecticut by Littenberg (t · c); see discussion

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16 Feb 2025 – Thomas Ian Griffith (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Bricks&Wood (t · c); see discussion

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02 May 2025 – Draft:English Invasion of Acadia (1654) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Historyguy1138 (t · c)
22 Apr 2025 – Draft:Bruce Barber (radio personality) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Toyosikehinde22 (t · c)
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16 Nov 2024 – Draft:Shad bake (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Zhuvelo (t · c)
29 Apr 2025 – Draft:Sneako (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Norbillian (t · c) was declined by KeepItGoingForward (t · c) on 08 May 2025

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May 10, 2025

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Ethel Frances Donaghue (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

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May 9, 2025

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May 8, 2025

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May 5, 2025

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Deletion discussions

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Kat Milligan-McClellan

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Assistant professor (microbiology) with an h-factor of 10 (GScholar), 930 total citations and no awards. She has made a good start, but she is 5-10 years from reaching any of the criteria for academics. WP:TOOSOON by a long way. Ldm1954 (talk) 21:25, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Ldm1954 (talk) 21:25, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I think she is ok. Yesterday, all my dreams... (talk) 22:54, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:Prof; not enough for GNG. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:08, 8 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women, Biology, Alaska, Connecticut, Oregon, and Wisconsin. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:23, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete clear case of WP:TOO SOON, she fails WP:Prof. --hroest 13:46, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete. Off to a good start, and on track to meet WP:PROF, but I think not quite there yet. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Paul H Elovitz

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Doesn't meet WP:NACADEMIC or WP:GNG. An article referenced entirely by Elovitz's own publications. Did reach associate professor level at Temple University; a long publication history, but Scopus shows limited impact (H-index=3), although that seems to be missing his pre-1996 work. Klbrain (talk) 16:13, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and Connecticut. Shellwood (talk) 16:30, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Psychology. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:55, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

comment I could only find 2 academic reviews of a book that he co-edited: [1] [2] which is not enough for WP:NPROF or WP:NAUTHOR. However, he was the founder and editor in chief of Clio's Psyche which could contribute to WP:NPROF#8 but I dont know how "well established" that journal is. --hroest 21:36, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Enrico Fermi High School

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Only routine local coverage, nothing that satisfies WP:GNG. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:31, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Education, Schools, and Connecticut. Shellwood (talk) 22:31, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Very Weak Delete. Not sure here. On one hand the Hartford Courant, the biggest newspaper in a fairly populous state, appears to have a routine "in the schools" section that regularly covered Enrico Fermi. But, almost all of the coverage is routine in nature (e.g., school dances, sports, announcements, etc.), or human interest stories that do not necessarily contribute to notability. nf utvol (talk) 00:29, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

keep or merge into Enfield High School nothing against local newspapers, this article seems well researched with lots of references to offline newspaper archive which I presume is WP:SIGCOV of the local school (I dont have access to these offline sources). The article is well sourced with a lot of informative details that would be hard to research online and offline. I dont see any reason to remove this work, it should be preserved either in this article or in the Enfield High School article. AfD for high schools is designed for poorly researched, WP:ROTM articles that have no encyclopedic quality and cannot be supported by WP:RS, this article is not that at all. This was discussed here with exactly this problem in mind:

Because extant secondary schools often have reliable sources that are concentrated in print and/or local media, a deeper search than normal is needed to attempt to find these sources. At minimum, this search should include some local print media. If a deep search is conducted, and still comes up empty, then the school article should be deleted for not meeting the GNG - Editors are not expected to prove the negative that sources do not exist, but they should make a good-faith effort to find them. If a normal-depth search fails to find any evidence that the school exists, the article on the school should be deleted without the need for a deeper search.

However, in this case the article author has done exactly that, a deep search with local media and produced a reasonable quality article based on coverage in WP:RS. --hroest 14:41, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scott A. Hoffinger

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Doesn't reach WP:NACADEMIC (no chair; insufficient reasearch contribution, with H-index of 11), nor WP:GNG - the 2009 reality series appearance seems fleeting (no sustained coverage). Klbrain (talk) 18:15, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators and New York. Shellwood (talk) 19:21, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Medicine, California, Connecticut, and Michigan. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:41, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Klbrain/others:

Strongly, strongly disagree this article should be deleted. Based on Wikipedia's guidelines for notability (WP:PROF and WP:GNG), Hoffinger clearly meets the standards due to his significant and documented contributions to orthopedic medicine, particularly pediatric orthopedics, leg length inequality and other procedures, and his documented, extensive aid work in the middle east.

First, Hoffinger has significantly advanced orthopedic techniques, specifically developing magnet-powered telescoping internal rods for limb-lengthening. This method reduces complications seen with older external fixation methods and has been covered independently, including by the Stanford Medicine News Center. This clearly satisfies WP:PROF criterion 1 "significant scholarly impact". (There are many sources/ DOIs I can cite. See one here: https://journals.lww.com/clinorthop/abstract/2000/07000/intramedullary_nailing_of_femoral_shaft_fractures.16.aspx)

Next, he has held key positions at respected institutions, including Stanford Children's Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and OrthoPediatrics. He also served as Director of Pediatric Orthopedics at Children’s Hospital Oakland. Additionally, he served as the Medical Staff President at Children's Hospital Oakland in 2006, effectively an academic chair position, directly addressing the criterion cited by Klbrain. These positions reflect substantial professional recognition and meet WP:PROF criterion 6 "holding distinguished positions".

Lastly, Hoffinger has participated actively in international medical outreach, notably being featured twice on television, including a documented medical mission to Iraq featured on "Little People, Big World." Such appearances indicate ongoing relevance and satisfy the WP:GNG criterion for media coverage. It wasn't a "fleeting" reality series appearance. He appeared three times, and went to the middle east with the Matt Roloff twice.

As an ancilary note, I feel that focusing solely on an H-index of 11 fails to appreciate the practical medical innovations he introduced, which have received recognition beyond citation counts. His research contributions are substantial, and many of his peer-reviewed articles can be found here: PubMed and Google scholar

Look- I understand that people make articles all the time here that aren't up to the Wiki standards. I genuinely feel this article should not be deleted. Happy to work closely with klbrain or others to edit it up to that standard, but no one can say this guy isn't notable. Hoffy600 (talk) 22:39, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Non-notable doctor. Military news story [3] and a press release [4] are about all I can find. Oaktree b (talk) 23:16, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There are clear indications that he is a good medical doctor, and has had useful administrative roles. However, those do not qualify him for a Wikipedia page, for that he needs large-scale national or internation recognition and/or positions or awards. Counting by hand his citations I get an h-factor of 12 which does not qualify for WP:NPROF. Almost all the various pages cited are all mini-CV of him at medical sites, not general pages of independent coverage. Sorry, but he falls far short of what we look for. Ldm1954 (talk) 11:17, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
weak delete GS finds 3 studies with 100+ citations which is not extraordinary in biomedicine especially over the course of 20+ years and does not rise to the bar of WP:NPROF. I agree that GS cannot capture the complexity of academic research and it is only a proxy we use, if there are other reputable sources that attest to his impact in the field (Festschrift or similar) we can take that into account. I dont see NPROF#6 as this usually relates to the president/dean of a whole major University, not a single department as in this case. --hroest 13:36, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Don't Delete

Hi everyone: Some thoughts to counter what you've put here (more succinct this time, ha ha):

Klbrain:

No named chair, but served as Director of Orthopedics, Stanford Clinical Professor, and president of a national society—roles that meet the intent of WP:NPROF #6. I quote the standard as follows: "The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society." Children's Hospital Oakland is associated with UCSF Benioff, and therefore constitutes a highest level role when he was medical staff president.

He also is a member of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, a selective group. I quote the WP:ACADEMICS standard #3 "The person has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association." AAOS qualifies as such.

TV appearances were neither trivial nor fleeting—Hoffinger was a recurring expert and on-screen surgeon. By your logic, we'd have to remove Matt Roloff's page too.

Ldm1954:

Independent coverage exists in multiple forms: academic news (Stanford Medicine News), the DVIDs article you mentioned, trade media Becker's, and television (TLC). This is "independent coverage."

Serving as AACPDM president is national academic leadership. Combined with multiple other media appearances, this satisfies WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO. I quote the GNG standard as follows: "There is no fixed number of sources required since sources vary in quality and depth of coverage, but multiple sources are generally expected".

Hroest:

Citation counts, while not astronomical, are strong for pediatric surgery. The medical field isn't uniform, and pediatric orthopedics is a field where citation count isn't valued as highly as other specialties. Three studies exceed 100 citations, which is significant in this field.

Society presidency and division leadership clearly qualify under WP:NPROF #6 as "top-tier" positions within a respected academic medical society and major hospital system. Hoffy600 (talk) 15:26, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons has 39k members drawn from just within orthopedic surgery. That's not highly selective. WP:NPROF #6 is for something like the National Academy of Medicine, which has fewer than 3k members despite drawing from all medical specialties and 10% foreign members. Jahaza (talk) 17:54, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]