Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fatima de Madrid
It occurs to me that sources are likely to be non-electronic and non-English. Possibly Spanish or Arabic. Also, it isn't exactly true that |significant coverage of the subject is the only criterion that matters for notability. From Wikipedia:Notability (people), a scholar can be notable without her biography being the subject of secondary sources. She would be notable if she has made a widely recognized contribution to astronomy, or originated a significant new concept or discovery. Note that the concept or discovery is the notable thing that receives coverage, not necessarily the person; this is a possible exception to . Simply "being an 11th century female Muslim astronomer" isn't really a good claim, although Wikipedia:Notability (academics) suggests that she'd be notable if sources make note of the rarity of female astronomers in her time &mdash; and it would be surprising if no source made note of this fact. Whether such sources exist is another matter. Anyone know how to spell her name in Arabic
— User:Amatulic, 20:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:SIGCOV||WP:NOTINHERITED (Wikipedia:Notability)