Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Watts-Tobin

:Therefore, the subject meets [[WP:GNG]] based on significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, and concerns about [[WP:BIO1E]] are mitigated by the broader body of related work (including the 1967 follow-up study) and continued historical treatment of the discovery.

:Therefore, the subject meets [[WP:GNG]] based on significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, and concerns about [[WP:BIO1E]] are mitigated by the broader body of related work (including the 1967 follow-up study) and continued historical treatment of the discovery.

:''Disclosure'': I am the creator of this article and have been its primary contributor. [[User:LocusAndLeaf|LocusAndLeaf]] ([[User talk:LocusAndLeaf|talk]]) 15:38, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

:''Disclosure'': I am the creator of this article and have been its primary contributor. [[User:LocusAndLeaf|LocusAndLeaf]] ([[User talk:LocusAndLeaf|talk]]) 15:38, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

*'''Weak keep''', but on unusual grounds. We are an encyclopedia. We've agreed to have articles on academics if they meet certain criteria, but we also need articles on academics in whom the public may have a legitimate interest. The frameshift paper is so, so important, and Crick's name is so, so widely known to the public, that it's highly likely we'll have curious people wondering who the other co-authors were, what they contributed, ''and what happened to them in the rest of their career'' - even if not very much happened! For this reason I think we can make an exception to NPROF for Watts-Tobin. It would be inappropriate to redirect to the frameshift mutation experiment because this, rightly, concentrates on the experiment, not the authors. But there is information in Richard Watts-Tobin that is verifiable and that our readers might quite reasonably want to know - and that, for me, is enough for a weak keep. We certainly don't improve anything by deleting - it would be deletion for the sake of uniform-application-of-rules, which is the weakest of reasons. [[User:Elemimele|Elemimele]] ([[User talk:Elemimele|talk]]) 15:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)