Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William James Wanless
I'm happy to withdraw the nomination if someone can show me how this meets  (or maybe ?), rather than just saying it's "silly" and that he is "enormously notable". As far as I can tell, none of his accomplishments are particularly noteworthy. A delegate to the 1910 World Missionary Conference? Judging from the pic in that article, there were an awful lot of those. President of the Missionary Medical Association of India? Is that a notable organization? Is it the same as the Christian Medical Association of India? I don't know. Is 75,000 surgeries a lot? Does that somehow satisfy the notability criteria? Not as far as I can see. And, yes, the British Medical Journal wrote a nice obituary for him, but that's not really the best source to prove what a "prolific" writer he was; how about citing some of the actual stuff he wrote, so we can judge for ourselves how prolific he was? This is not just a matter of clean-up; as far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to assert notability at all, at least as far our guidelines go. But, again, if I'm wrong, I'm happy to speedy keep
— User:Kafziel, 21:18, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:ACADEMIC (Wikipedia:Notability)