Talk:Nathan Smith Davis

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Wasn't this article deleted?

So is this person relevant 2 years later after this page was already nominated for deletion?--0pen$0urce (talk) 16:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was deleted as a copyright violation because the author copied text from an AMA web site. It has been recreated with original text. Notability hasn't been raised as an issue, but the article certainly makes a claim of notability. You can always open an AfD if you don't think he's notable. --Spike Wilbury ♫ talk 17:06, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is this sentence correct?

"Davis wrote the majority report of the committee of the AMA which in 1870 barred blacks and women from membership in the association." When I read this sentence it isn't clear to me what exactly it's saying. What is the majority report of the committee of the AMA? 66.191.21.120 (talk) 19:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The ref is partially available on this google books (page 81), whereat the annotated footnote 24 is shown on page 280:
24. Thomas N. Bonner, "The Social and Political Attitudes of Midwestern Physicians, 1840-1940: Chicago as a Case History," Journal of the History of Medicine 8 (1953): 133:64.
The Bonner article can in turn can be found at doi:10.1093/jhmas/VIII.April.133 or PMID 13044920. Feel free to clarify my wording.LeadSongDog come howl 21:23, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I See that the ref uses similar wording: "Davis wrote the majority report for the AMA which barred persons..." Do you know what a majority report is? I do not. Do you think possibly it was suppose to be "Davis wrote the majority of the report for the AMA which barred persons...?" This is of little importance, I just try to fix incorrect sentences when I see them. 66.191.21.120 (talk) 02:46, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The existence of a majority report implies that there is also a minority report. It's what you get when a committee is producing a report, and the members cannot agree amongst themselves what the correct answer is. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:04, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

I have to raise notability discussion. I don't believe this person meets notability requirements.--0pen$0urce (talk) 08:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's lots of published material on him. Just because a source on the topic hasn't yet been incorporated in the article doesn't mean it hasn't been written. Further sources, yet to be properly worked into the article include:

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/nathan-smith-davis-woh/#
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2354375/
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-history/the-founding-of-ama/our-founder-nathan-smith-davis.shtml
[No authors listed] "Nathan Smith Davis(1817-1904), founder, teacher, editor." JAMA. 1966 Nov 21;198(8):942-4. PMID 5332282
Johnson FS. "Nathan Smith Davis" Science. 1904 Aug 19;20(503):237-240. PMID 17797888
[No authors listed] "NATHAN SMITH DAVIS, 1817-1904" Merck Rep. 1956 Jan;65(1):10. PMID 13279539
Bonner Thomas Neville , "Dr. Nathan Smith Davis and the Growth of Chicago Medicine, 1850-1900" Bull. Hist. of Med 1952 Jul-Aug;26(4):360-74. PMID 14954288
Bonner Thomas Neville. "Medicine in Chicago, 1850-1950. A Chapter in the Social and Scientific Development of a City" London: Holhorn Publishing (1958) pp. 302 + xvii. (reviewed here)
Kampmeier OF. "Nathan Smith Davis, 1817-1904: a biographical essay." J Med Educ. 1959 May;34(5):496-508. PMID 13665243
Ziskin L, Mancuso D. "Nathan Davis and medicine's move from trade to profession." N J Med. 1996 Dec;93(12):43-6. PMID 8990878

We could also add a "Publications" section with entries from this list for starters.

I don't believe there can be any serious question of his notability, given that he has already been noted by numerous reliable sources. However, feel free to take it to WP:Notability/Noticeboard if you still think it necessary. LeadSongDog come howl 17:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirection

When I searched for "Dr. Nathan Smith Davis" nothing came up. This needs redirection, which I would have done if I knew how. ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 19:09, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]