Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lisa Jones (scientist)
per  its very clear that its TOOSOON from an academic point of view - we do not create articles for everybody with a NSF grant. Even though a 1M grant looks impressive, these are very common for assistant professors and generally barely cover the professors salary, lab expenses and maybe one or two students. This is a 5 year grant, so this is ca 200k per year to put this into perspective and in the US this will also have to cover her salary. As Russ pointed out there are 450 awards per year and current notability criteria do not support this grant alone as a reason for notability. The "associated press coverage" is university press which is basically vanity press (every University has those to promote their own scientists). She works in my subfield and I did see her speak at notable conferences including Pittcon and she is clearly an impressive scientist with a promising career, but for Wikipedia it is TOOSOON (talks at conferences are not a current criterion for notability either). Furthermore, a h-index of 19 is quite common for assistant professors at her stage, so unless we make all assistant professors notable (we don't, not even full professors are notable) we would be making an exception here. The only reason for keeping this would be if there were regional or national press coverage about her research or her position in science as a black scientist. I am not specifically arguing against this article, but want to provide context and would like to point that we would first have to have a much larger discussion about professors and their notability first
— user:Hannes, 16:59, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPROF (Wikipedia:Notability)