Talk:Jeannie T. Lee

Reorganizing and copyediting
I'm a new Fellow in General Subjects and this week I am supposed to do minor edits on articles I'm considering for more work. I have reorganized this article. I would like to add an Infobox and a photograph if I can find one with the right qualifications for Wikipedia use. Please let me know if you have issues with these copyedits or plans. LLMHoopes (talk) 13:55, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Trolling frequent
This article is on my watch list and recently it has been trolled twice, perhaps more. I am new and don't know how best to prevent this attack.LLMHoopes (talk) 14:09, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Notability
Not every university professor deserves an article in the encyclopedia. Articles at Wikipedia have to be about a notable topic in order to be included. As a university professor, this article would fall under the criteria of WP:NPROF, which lists nine criteria for inclusion. I don't see that this article meets any of the nine conditions, and if that turns out to be the case, this article should be nominated for deletion. Adding LLMHoopes and User:Shalor (Wiki Ed). Mathglot (talk) 18:43, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * - are you interested in further improving the page? Also, - Lee has won an award from the National Academy of Sciences, which I think is supposed to be one of the more highly selective and prestigious of the groups out there, of which she's also a member, so she would probably pass on criteria #3 and probably #2. I'll also ping, as they created the article and may be able to give more insight. LLMHoopes, can you also attest to this? Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:12, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I don't see that this article meets any of the nine conditions
 * Criteria 1: "Dr. Lee’s work has revolutionized the field of epigenetics. Her research has led to groundbreaking contributions..."
 * Criteria 2: NIH MERIT award (this is a grant that you cannot apply for that gives an investigator with a long-term productive track record 10 years of funding), Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences
 * Criteria 3: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010 and Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015
 * Criteria 5: She's a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
 * Criteria 6: Currently the President of the Genetics Society of America
 * That's 5 of the 9 criteria. What more do you want? Natureium (talk) 19:27, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * IF #1 is true, that is sufficient, and the others would not be necessary.
 * My view of it was from going through all of the references, one by one, and wasn't sure which, if any, confer notability:
 * member of org or list: refs 1, 2, 15. &mdash; if these are major organizations, then yes
 * interviews: 3, 4, 16. – Direct interview with a subject is primary source material
 * co-author of journal article: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. – none apply; every professor publishes.
 * Awards, prizes: there are a lot of awards, are these "prestigious"?
 * Lurie award ref 14 – Lurie has no article; that doesn't mean it isn't notable on its own, but is it enough?
 * Centennial award ref 17 - no listing of this on a very long disambig page; how major is this?
 * That's where I was coming from. Mathglot (talk) 23:39, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

I am certain that she is notable. For criteria 1 and 2, here is text of her citation for the Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences, •	Jeannie T. Lee (2010) "By using X-chromosome inactivation as a model system, Lee has made unique contributions to our understanding of epigenetic regulation on a global scale, including the role of long, non-coding RNAs, interchromosomal interactions, and nuclear compartmentalization." http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/molecular-biology.html

In addition, her work has been a major component of a number of review articles by others, including: Chris P. Ponting, Peter L. Oliver, Wolf Reik (2008) “Evolution and Functions of Long Noncoding RNAs” Cell 136:629-641.

Pedro J Batista and Howard Y Chang. (2013) “Long Noncoding RNA: Cellular Address Codes in Development and Disease.” Cell 152: 1298-1307.

John L Rinn and Howard Chang. (2013) “Genome regulation by long noncoding RNAs” Annu Rev Biochem 81: 145-166.

Anton Wutz. (2011) “Gene silencing in X-chromosome inactivation: advances in understanding facultative heterochromatin formation.” Nature Reviews Genetics 12: 542-533.

Thomas R. Cech and Joan A. Steitz (2013) “The Noncoding RNA Revolution: Trashing Old Rules to Forge New Ones” Cell 157: 77-94.

For Criterion 3, the National Academy of Sciences election is clear evidence that she is an outstanding scientist. http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20033180.html

For Criterion 6, She is president of the Genetics Society of America, a highly respected national society. LLMHoopes (talk) 00:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, she passes at least 1 and 3 and that's enough, it's not necessary to pass all of them. Removing the template. Thanks for the additional references. Mathglot (talk) 07:26, 17 November 2018 (UTC)