Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nike Doggart


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 06:32, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Nike Doggart

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Seems to fail WP:PROF and I see no other case for notability that is even close. jps (talk) 17:35, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
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 * Comment Discovery of a frog and having that named after the scientist is indeed notable. Keep. 17:44, 27 December 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Citizenkane7 (talk • contribs)   Struck per WP:SOCK and Sockpuppet investigations/Oxford2008.
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 * Weak delete a presenter of a BBC program should be more notable than I have fond here to be. But she does not appear to be notable.Slatersteven (talk) 18:05, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Discovered a new species of frog, authored a paper about that. Also, see ResearchGate cites. Shearonink (talk) 03:15, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
 * There are over 4800 species of frogs. I am fairly sure every discoverer is not notable enough for a standalone article. jps (talk) 05:33, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete discovering a new species of frog is not a sign of notability and nothing else comes even close.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I can see she has BBC mentions and appearances and has done notable scientific work, per, and others; see also Arthroleptis nikeae. However, the article will need some improvements. Ambrosiawater (talk) 02:27, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Captain Eek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 05:17, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Discovery of frog species alone does not pass WP:PROF, and don't see enough coverage to pass WP:GNG. Think this might be a case of WP:TOOSOON. For now, mention on Arthroleptis nikeae would be sufficient. Achaea (talk) 10:32, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep WP:PROF: "Criterion 1 can also be satisfied if the person has pioneered or developed a significant new concept, technique or idea,  or solved a major problem in their academic discipline." Anarchangel (talk) 02:31, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Why is the discovery of a single species "significant"? jps (talk) 18:21, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep lots of article on google scholar with > 30 references. Stuartyeates (talk) 19:14, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment that a GS search for author:Doggart,N turns up an additional article of "N.H. Doggart" (who appears to be her) with 500+ citations, though that article also has a very high number of coauthors. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:15, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If not kept, redirect to Arthroleptis nikeae and maybe expand briefly there on who she is: always interesting to see derivation of a species name, especially one which might otherwise refer to a goddess or a make of footwear. Pam D  11:19, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets WP:SIGCOV. I made an attempt to search "Nike Doggart news" in Google, it returned sizeable news-related results  as indicated in this link below https://www.google.com/search?q=Nike+Doggart+news&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ACYBGNSxhrPcDWVZLZ4R3SR-VyuLZnwcwA:1578513461511&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi13JXx5PTmAhVGSsAKHf8bAvQQ_AUICSgA&biw=1242&bih=568&dpr=1.1 Also WP:GNG is established by the google link above. Page is old. Existing since 2007. Several well known editors have worked on it over the years. Found out that She's an environmentalist who discovered a tree frog in the Usambara mountains which, exceptionally, was then named after her by the Royal Geograhical Society. That's notable for me.  She has also worked as a BBC presenter and helped to conserve hundreds of thousands of acres of Tanzanian rainforest. Let's keep this.Jokejust1000 (talk) 04:21, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. because the frog.NotButtigieg (talk) 10:26, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. on the principle that we have always considered the person discovering even a single new species as notable. Yes, there are a great many species., but WP is NOT PAPER, (that applies to the scientist, not necessarily to the person the species is named after, which can as here be the scientist, but can also be anywhere from another improtant scientist to a friend to an imaginary being)


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