Deletion of Alice Goffman

Comment: Mr Nowak, you may not have seen my entry on the Talk page: "It has been suggested that Goffman is not notable as she is an assistant professor and although she has received some prestigious awards and fellowships, it is perhaps debatable whether she satisfies the criteria listed in . However, she clearly meets : "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list." She clearly meets this guideline as she and her book have been the subject of multiple articles in reliable sources such as the NYTimes and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and  "is a guideline and not a rule, exceptions may well exist. Some academics may not meet any of these criteria, but may still be notable for their academic work." " Thus  overrides 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:NACADEMICS)

Comment: A glance at the article's sourcing, which includes a lengthy profile of Goffman in last week's New York Times Magazine establishes that Goffman easily qualifies under . She is notable because she wrote a book that has started a major war within academia; a major intellectual firefight with battlelines drawn: journalists, lawyers, and Law Schools on one side, social scientists and political activists on the other; and a series of minor skirmishes on her Wikipedia page - of which this is the latest - although not the first effort to delete or discredit the page on the part of Nom https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Goffman&diff=696338847&oldid=696228036.  The fuss is over what standards should determine what constitutes evidence, over how transparent and verifiable sources should be, and even over the line between fiction and nonfiction, advocacy and scholarship, and the nature of truth.  Battles now being fought via anonymous emails, on academic listserves, in print, by online publication and, perhaps inevitably, on Wikipedia.   I want to thank Nom for his courtesy in notifying me, since I did not start the article, although I have been active in editing it
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)