Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of important publications in medicine
Two reasons. Firstly the term "important" cannot be objectively determined. We don't have a "list of beautiful people". I've read Geometry guy's comments and don't buy his argument in this regard. We can find reliable sources that say someone is beautiful. The key is that the "important" is explicit rather than implicit and the scope is way too large. One could produce a Timeline of cardiology that included key findings over the years. Or a History of evidence-based-medicine that discussed the landmark studies. For those it is reasonable to cite our reliable sources and use them per  to determine inclusion. One might even, for a narrow scope, find a publication that provides the list entries in one go. The second reason is that the items in this list aren't homogeneous. The first section contains historical texts that collect medicial wisdom of the age or author. The later section contains the publication of landmark studies. It is actually the studies that are the notable fact. Nobody cares much about the study text or the publication they were within. So is this a collection of great medical texts or a collection of groundbreaking medical research studies? For our purposes, the word "publications" isn't helpful then. We're left with "List of ... medical ..." There are better ways to list this sort of information. Let's delete this one as unhelpful
— User:Colin, 08:12, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:WEIGHT (Wikipedia:Neutral point of view)