Deletion of Scott Aaronson

Comment: Quantum Computing is still a very new field and has very few well-known academics associated with it. Aaronson has already received several awards (Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at the 2004 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing; the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity two years in a row (2003 and 2004); the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for his PhD thesis (given for a "truly outstanding piece of research as documented in written form"); and the C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award for his paper "Quantum Lower Bound for the Collision Problem)http://www.csail.mit.edu/people/1324. He has already published numerous papers.http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/a/Aaronson:Scott.html, http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&sa=G&oi=qs&q=%22scott+aaronson%22+author:s-aaronson.  is a guideline (and a very difficult guideline to read), but I suggest there is enough here to establish notability within that guideline already. You don't win those sorts of prizes, even as a student, without being exceptional
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: being an exceptional student (winning student prizes) doesn't mean one passes , imo.  Nor does publishing papers.  I agree with Nsk92, he seems promising, but a decision to delete would not be out of line with other delete decisions made here recently.  But if you can improve the article, then by all means please do so
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Comment: I'm not impressed by arguments about the margins of guidelines, the issue is that this article does not cite reliable independent sources of which Aaronson is the primary subject.  As such, it is part directory entry and part bio teased from coverage of fields in which he is active.  I consider thata problem per 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)

Comment: I feel compelled to point out that I have no idea who the nominator is. I have myself been a contributor to Aaronson's article, despite some skepticism on my part whether he passes ; I removed an earlier incomplete AfD nomination put there by an anonymous editor who was unable to complete the nom, and I undeleted a previous speedied version of the same article because I wanted to use some of its text in the present version. While contributing to the article, I found a half-dozen or so other articles in Wikipedia that refer to Aaronson and his works, so there may be an argument here for |building the web aside from our usual notability standards
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