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Mireya Mayor

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This is a pastiche of a number of sources, especially [1] , and the cited sources. This article was written as if she were a Media personality, with the references and much of this text all apparently copies of the same press release and bioblurb, presumably written by her or her press agent. There is no true third party verification of any part of her adventures. A typical reference from Google is "has Mireya Mayor had her lips done? Expedition Bigfoot viewers question doctor's appearance"[2] (and as PR it's out of date--she has also written an autobiography)

She is not a faculty member of any university, and never was. She is apparently director of Exploration and Science Communications at FIU[3]

But she is a biologist, and might be notable, but the article would need to be totally rewritten, which I can do if I find an actual CV to establish the objective facts of her life. She did not discover a new lemur species--she has always worked as part of a team as a relatively junior member. - She has been one of the 14 coauthors on a major summary of lemur taxonomy, which was not a formal revision in the taxonomic sense, and she has been one of the 7 coauthors on two papers which have indeed formally revised the assignment of previously known lemurs into a different arrangement of species. This is noteworthy taxonomic work, but not necessarily for the junior members of a group, and I cannot tell from the available material that she was responsible for that work- She's also published other papers, mostly as one of a number of junior coauthors, but some perhaps as the principle author--it will take a more detailed analysis.

Thisis a suitable place by TNT if there ever was. IThe only way to revise the article would be to remove almost all the content and the duplicative PR references DGG ( talk ) 02:39, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:01, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:01, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete there is a lot of press release puffery and no substance.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:15, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Is there any notability/truth to the new species she discovered? Oaktree b (talk) 19:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

She seems to be co-author on several papers about the discovery that turn up in a Google Scholar search, this would suggest notability. Oaktree b (talk) 19:22, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep remove puffery and add concrete references