Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shouryya Ray
Every once in a while one of these news stories about a "wunderkind" come out, and we have a little AfD about it (remember Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Barnett?)  The relevant criterion for assessing the notability of such individuals is .  Thus Terrence Tao and Karl Friedrich Gauss would have met this standard as teenagers, but Jacob Barnett and Shouryya Ray would not have (yet).  In case someone doubts the applicability of , believing sensationalist journalism in the yellow media makes for a pass of WP:GNG, well we also have  which ''clearly'' also applies here.  In fact, given that the subject did not actually solve and unsolved problem, contrary to initial reports, the current story will be of no lasting scientific importance: even the one event for which this subject is presumptively notable is entirely ephemeral
— User:Sławomir, 17:08, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ACADEMIC||WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Notability)