Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alanna Shaikh
I did not see any mention in the article of http://www.undispatch.com/author/alanna-shaikh/ her writings at UNDispatch (Not an organ of the UN but sponsored by http://www.unfoundation.org/ The United Nations Foundation) so there may be some  criteria if anyone wants to go digging. She is being quoted in news articles as the primary "counterpoint" voice. See {{cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-226774124.html|title=GLOBAL: USAID urged to tackle urbanization |newspaper=IRIN Africa English Service|date=19 May 2010||no-tracking=yes}} {{highbeam}} She and her writings/blogs have been mentioned in {{cite book|author1=David Lewis|author2=Dennis Rodgers|author3=Michael Woolcock|title=Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wJinAgAAQBAJ|date=23 January 2014|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-135-90263-6}} so here social media work (that is what the book is looking at) is recognized as influential there.   As to the "notability" of the being a TED Senior Fellow from http://blog.ted.com/meet-the-new-class-of-2015-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows/ this they chose 10 people in 2015 from a group who had ''already'' been TED Fellows so it is rather selective. To compare in 2015 the IEEE (the society given as an example in NPROF) elevated 297 of the  833 people nominated as an IEEE Fellow http://www.ieee.org/documents/fellow_stats_summary_years.pdf
— User:Jbhunley, 23:58, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
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