Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Valentina Harizanov
Every discipline will have fields or subfields that are very specialized. If a subfield has only 10 active researchers in it, then the world authority in the field will have a very small citation impact, even though s/he will be “the” world authority. The result, in my view, is that the world authority will not meet  criterion #1, because that criterion refers to significant impact in a “scholarly discipline”. I think “scholarly discipline” was meant, in the context of  criterion #1, to refer to a broader area than a very specialized subfield. An analogy can be made to news topics related to science. A news topic becomes notable when it attracts broad interest, and this can come from very specialized science topics; e.g., discovery that may appear obscure at first glance, but that upon further inspection is found to have broad implications for society
— User:Eric, 17:51, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)