Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Debra A. Brock
There's been a lot of smoke blown in the keep !votes so far. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but please bear in mind that this isn't our first rodeo: the |notability guideline for academics are designed to give us a lot of latitude in keeping academics with notable work wouldn't otherwise stand a chance of meeting |Wikipedia's standard criteria for inclusion. That long-standing |consensus is unlikely to be swayed by special pleading in this case. With that said, I do think there's a case to be made that Brock's discovery of amoeba "farming" bacteria meets #C1. It was published in ''Nature'', and while the number of citations is surprisingly low (77 cites in 6 years) it's still respectable, and it was ''very'' widely reported on in the popular science press: https://phys.org/news/2013-09-amoebas-farm-bacteria-crops-wild.htmlhttp://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/24/the-bacteria-that-turn-amoebas-into-farmers/https://www.wired.com/2011/01/bacteria-farming-amoeba/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421100822.htmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/25obamoeba.htmlhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/amoeba-animal-farmers/http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/01/worlds-smallest-farmershttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12227168. Most of these articles quote Brock extensively. However, if kept, the article would need a thorough rewrite to remove the overt promotionalism in its current version. &ndash;&#8239
— User:Joe, 14:48, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:GNG||WP:CONSENSUS||WP:PROF (Wikipedia:Notability)