Deletion of J. Marvin Herndon

Comment:  is incredibly vague, but this might meet  #7 ("The person has made substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity") as well as . He passes the  "Average Professor Test": how many average professors get a cover story on Discover Magazine, or have their work reported in mainstream news publications
Stance: keep
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Comment: Added sources. To highlight, he initially received a lot of attention after his theory was originally published in the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' one of the most influential scientific journals. He and the theory were featured as the cover story in the August 2002 issue of ''Discover (magazine)'', plus the many other sources: ''The Dallas Morning News'', ''USA Today'', ''Toronto Star'', ''U.S. News & World Report'', Discover (magazine)|''Discover'' (a 2nd article). He was also in the journal ''Science (journal)|Science'', based on a ref in one of the other sources, but having trouble finding a cite. Regardless if his theory is accepted science, passes , topic has received in-depth coverage in multiple reliable sources
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Editors JMHerndon and DavidWineberg need to read up a bit on what "|notability" means here on WP. As far as I can see, Herndon does not pass . According to the Web of Science, his works have been cited a grand total of 488 times (h-index of 13), which is not indicative of a lasting impact on the field (and my |crystal ball refuses to tell me whether this will change in future). I disagree with Colapeninsula that an article in ''Discover'' constitutes a pass of . However, it does constitute good evidence of notability under  and the other sources unearthed by Green Cardamon seal the deal: a clear pas of . As an aside, although his theories don't seem to be generally accepted (and PNAS has published its fair share of real fringe stuff), they don't seem to fall in what I would call "fringe" either. Fringe is when someone sticks to some unlikely idea with only some crackpot theory behind it or in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary keeps sticking to an invalidated hypothesis (like the AIDS denialism of Peter Duesberg - published also in PNAS...). None of that seems to be the case here. Anyway, even if it did, it's immaterial to this discussion. The article needs some cleanup to be reworked into an encyclopedic biography (and please note that Who's Who in America is not a |reliable source and should not be used to source this article - or even be mentioned in it
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:ACADEMIC||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:PROF||WP:GNG||WP:GNG||WP:RS)