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According to WP:PROF the individual must have won a national or international award, this is clearly stated in the article - "In 2004 she became the first girl to win a gold medal for the United States team in the International Mathematical Olympiad". The article passed WP:PROF. It should be
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undergraduate or graduate level) do not qualify under Criterion 2 and do not count towards partially satisfying Criterion 1." No evidence the person is a major force in the field, with widespread influence, or academic accomplishments at all comparable to being a "Distinguished Professor."
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which lists the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for History, or the MacArthur Award. Note the section which says "Victories in academic student competitions at the high school and university level as well as other awards and honors for academic student achievements (at either high school,
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In addition to the well stated arguments above, the article completely lacks references that establish notability. They're all essentially primary sources. I've searched for secondary news coverage of her, and can find nothing. So, this page needs to go.
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instead. But I've found and added some sources to the article that I think should be sufficient for GNG: two in-depth articles in Wired and a local newspaper, and a name-check in the New York Times. —
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Deprodded page on a mathematics graduate student who won some student awards. Past results from AfDs shows that such student awards are not sufficient for notability, certainly not enough to pass
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looks for more distinguished achievements than winning a student competition, which is not the "highly prestigious academic award or honor" required.See the section of
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explicitly excludes student awards, and this is consistent with how it has been applied in the past. It does not work as the basis for a keep vote in this case.
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Certainly a promising graduate student, but come back in a few years when there are more substantial accomplishments.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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if you put things in (national) perspective. She gets written about because "Math is doing great in the USA".
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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and she's too junior to have attained the impact necessary for
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had extensive coverage on his gov't website, which beats
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