Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. Marvin Herndon
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
— User:Randykitty, 21:31, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:ACADEMIC||WP:CRYSTAL||WP:PROF||WP:GNG||WP:GNG||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)