Loraxinthneed

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Dear Jimfbleak,

thanks so much for your feedback! Indeed I am new and that's why I had submitted the page as a draft for review (following the suggested process). I think the reason for rejection was wrong though. I am a PhD student in the field of neuromodulation that very much enjoys the work of Dr. Horn & his podcast and have asked him for his CV to submit a wikipedia page.

I totally understand in case his work is not deemed important enough but it was not a vanity article.

While writing it, I realized that Dr. Hagai Bergman from Israel also doesn't have a wikipedia page. His work has been very influential and paved the way for deep brain stimulation which has helped ~200k patients with Parkinsons Disease, world-wide.

However, after the current experience, I am unsure whether it may be worth the effort to ask him for his CV and write a page about him, as well.

Do you have an opinion on this? I believe scientists are generally underrepresented on wikipedia (opposed to e.g. musicians or movie stars) which is the main reason I came on board. But of course, I will abide to policy etc.

Thanks so much for your assessment!

~~~~ Loraxinthneed (talk) 01:30, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jimfbleak,

thanks again for your help on this and looking forward to your thoughts on Hagai Bergman.

I have now also taken a deeper dive into the notability page you listed (and the Wikipedia:Notability (academics) page which I assume applies here). In my view, Dr. Horn would satisfy both criterion 1 and 2 listed there. For the first, I had added the link to the ＞1000 papers from across the globe that were empowered by his toolbox Lead-DBS before (http://lead-dbs.org/about/publications/). For the second, I had referred to the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, which is the highest scientific honor for early career scientists in Germany. It is of course totally fine to keep the page deleted since you are the expert here. I am mainly trying to learn to sharp my senses on whom I should write pages for and whom rather not.

Thanks so much!

~~~~ Loraxinthneed (talk) 01:54, 26 May 2024 (UTC)