Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lera Boroditsky

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was No Consensus. -- Psy guy ^(talk) 02:39, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lera Boroditsky

According to the Wikipedia guidelines the person's notability should be above an average University Professor. Mrs Boroditsky is a junior faculty at Stanford. I asked the question of her notability at the Talk:Lera Boroditsky but have not received an answer. Delete abakharev 00:11, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

• • After reading the supplied sources I changed my mind from Strong Delete to Weak Delete as I still do not think she is notable enough. The Whorfian question is almost an urban folklor now, and she certainly did not invented it. The first of the new external links shows to an absolutely strange article. I am a native Russian speaker myself and I can tell that the word for the cousin is either Kuzen (pronounced similar to the English word) or Dvojurodny Brat (a simple Brat is for Brother). There is absolutely no way that a Russian (having enough command in English to follow the play) would hear cousin and decide that it means sibling. I hope that it was the error of a jurnalist not the quality of her research paper. abakharev 03:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom --FRS 00:37, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• I would like to see an article on the linguistic features mentioned in the article, but the person is non-notable. Delete --eleuthero 00:56, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Information has been added on the revolutionary/notable aspects of this person's work with citations to articles about the work in the media (the Economist, the NPR, the Boston Globe, etc)
• Delete unless someone can prove otherwise. Eleuthero, the topics mentioned in her article are not that unique in the linguistic realm, so I imagine you could find something on them somewhere (assuming the information isn't already here on Wikipedia in some form or another.) Devotchka 02:42, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I added more bio information on her, including awards receieved, got her first faculty job at MIT when only 23 years old, etc.
• Keep. The anonymous editor has provided sources which convince me of her notability. BTW, you can sign on by typing 4 tildes like this. Capitalistroadster 04:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per media coverage. Kappa 04:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Keeping basing on newspaper coverage is ridiculous. She is not a superstar. She is professor and the yardstick must be the according one. Where is her peer review? mikka (t) 07:18, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Strongly agree. Using media coverage to determine professors' notability makes about as much sense as using number of academic citations to determine movie stars' notablility. flowersofnight 16:22, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
      • The presence of coverage, outside of one's peers, is a large plus. It means somebody other than her peers, may be interested in reading about her. I suspect expert linguist researchers aren't coming to Wikipedia to read about the latest advances in their field. However, a regular member of the public who heard about her in the Economist, or listened to her interview on NPR, may well wish to read an article about her her. --rob 01:02, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete vanity. --Ghirlandajo 09:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable. (And how many times is the same person going to say Keep?) Marcus22 09:51, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - The media coverage shows she's already been judged notable. --rob 11:18, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per rob. Perodicticus 13:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Reading the external links, it appears that Ms. Boroditsky's ostensible claim to fame is that as of 2004, she is beginning research into some interesting Indonesian linguistic phenomena. The rest of the links essentially say "she's a promising young scholar". If she ever publishes this new research of hers and makes a big impact on the academic world, she's welcome to come back. flowersofnight 15:00, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep verifiable. Trollderella 16:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Has media attention. People may want to know more about her, and would come here, the repository of all human knowledge, to do so. Hipocrite - «Talk» 17:31, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Someone who's garnered that much media attention is notable regardless of the level of their professorship. We shouldn't hold professors to a tougher notability standard than everyone else. —Morven 19:52, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep verifiable, media interest and quote from Steven Pinker suggest to me that there is no reason to view this article as a vanity bio. Jkelly 00:39, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep scholarly professor. Klonimus 06:12, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. All of the "keep" comments above make me wanna write an article about myself, maybe they'll keep it here anyway. Не надо путать божий дар с яичницей. KNewman 18:11, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.