Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mayra Samaniego

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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 14:42, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mayra Samaniego (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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The subject is a PhD candidate and does not appear to meet WP:NACADEMIC yet. h-index of 7. Her company Harvita appears to be an experimental university student startup company, it hasn't received any coverage and appears not to have gotten any funding. No awards. Only coverage is from the university newsletter [1][2]. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:41, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. – Thjarkur (talk) 11:41, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. TJMSmith (talk) 13:04, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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• Delete it is very rare for someone to be notable as a PhD candidate, and nothing suggests she is an exception to this rule.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:53, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. One well-cited paper in a high-citation field is not enough for academic notability and there seems to be nothing else. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:47, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete fails WP:NACADEMIC ~ Amkgp 💬 18:10, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Publish. External references that support Samaniego's research have been included. References that support that Harvita is not a student startup company have been included. Harvita is a company incorporated in Saskatchewan Canada. The Awards and Honours section has been included. Coverage references outside the university have been included. - —Lukaswarce (talk) 18:15, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Far WP:TOOSOON for WP:NPROF. There's no sign that the company is notable, which would require significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. Involvement with a non-notable company doesn't make her notable. No sign of GNG. Comment that she's almost surely not a professor at SP (and the source doesn't support it). Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:52, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Publish. In the reference link that supports that she is a professor please search her last name or name and you will see that she is part of the Faculty at Saskatchewan Polytechnic. —Lukaswarce (talk) 19:10, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please don't !vote twice. Simply being a professor isn't sufficient. See WP:PROF for the guidelines for professors. (Btw, it's conventional to tag a comment like this with "keep" rather than "publish".) pburka (talk) 20:58, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

...but I'd welcome a new convention of !voting "publish" or "perish" in AFD discussions for professors.pburka (talk) 21:00, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Humdrum failure to meet the standard for wiki-notability of academics. No sign that the company is notable either. XOR'easter (talk) 20:52, 3 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete WP:TOOSOON. -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:47, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Publish. She is researching technologies to help northern communities of Canada face COVID-19. That is so remarkable!!! She is a young researcher who has accomplished a lot. She is an excellent representation of Latin women in science.allpatech (talk) 19:10, 4 August 2020 (UTC) — allpatech (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Sockpuppet !vote struck[reply]
• Publish. She represents Latin women in computer science, which is a minority group. What she has done is very notable. Also, getting funding for her research is remarkable. - —Carlosjuliofierro (talk) 15:37, 4 August 2020 (UTC) — Carlosjuliofierro (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
• delete getting research funded does not meet the noteability criterion for Wikipedia, I think this is simply WP:TOOEARLY. I also doubt that she is a professor while at the same time pursuing her PhD, it seems that somebody exaggerated a bit here. --hroest 18:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  Comment I've seen no evidence she's a professor - she does seem to be a uni faculty member, but even her own website says she is a Research Assistant. -Kj cheetham (talk) 18:40, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  It doesn't make a difference to whether she is notable in any case. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:00, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, fails WP:NPROF and WP:GNG, no evidence they are a prof anyways. Devonian Wombat (talk) 07:56, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, seems to fail Wp:NPROF. Eternal Shadow Talk 19:02, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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