Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William James Wanless
You can't tell it from the article right now, and I don't have time to rewrite it this week, but I'll try to at least redo the lead paragraph to show his notability. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to call him "the Albert Schweizer of India". He turned the once-small village of Miraj into the medical powerhouse of India. By the time he retired, the clinic he started had become a 250-bed hospital http://www.pinet.on.ca/peeldiglib/Page.asp?PageOrder=332&PubCode=medicine; the Wanless Hospital (still named after him 100 years later) is now a 550 bed teaching hospital. http://www.wanlesshospital.org/aboutus.htm) He founded the first missionary medical school in India, in 1897.http://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA514&lpg=PA514&dq=wanless+knight+of+the+kingdom&source=bl&ots=YxyKEFd5no&sig=UrG5yy7sDH8SU9hSNUxkW_zsMBM&hl=en&ei=kmOjTJidCo-esQPe0uj6Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=wanless%20knight%20of%20the%20kingdom&f=false Also still in existence are the Wanless Chest Hospital and the Mary Wanless Hospital. With a legacy like that - major hospitals founded by him and named for him, even the neighborhood of Miraj known as Wanlesswadi (how many people get a neighborhood of a city named after them?) - he almost defines notability. You wouldn't expect to find his writings at Google Scholar since he retired in 1928; he fills the much more basic requirement of 
— User:MelanieN, 06:16, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
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Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)