Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sarah Ballard
I don't know how many of the "keep" eds here are familiar with academic procedure, but I gather it's not too many. Post-docs work under the supervision of an advisor. It is just as correct, if not more, to say that these are David Charbonneau|Charbonneau's discoveries &ndash; he's been detecting exoplanets for more than 20 years. In the low-awareness media world, Ballard was the beneficiary of author order and we are indeed doing  by reading sole credit for discovery into that (as many have done). This article, which seems certain to be kept, is another step in the listification of WP. We might as well start adding all postdocs that have said a few words in the media
— User:Agricola44, 12:17, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:OR (Wikipedia:No original research)