Template:Did you know nominations/Priya Venkatesan

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The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Dying talk 05:33, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Priya Venkatesan

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• ... that Dartmouth College professor Priya Venkatesan said that a student's behaviour amounted to "fascist demagoguery"? Source: 'When the student who challenged the teacher was applauded by others, Venkatesan told them that the boy’s behaviour amounted to “fascist demagoguery”.'
  • ALT1: ... that Priya Venkatesan's dissertation, Molecular Biology in Narrative Form, studied links between molecular biology and French narrative theory? Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M_yuSbOLYhMC
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Created by Suntooooth (talk). Self-nominated at 00:48, 2 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Priya Venkatesan; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Rejecting. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Priya Venkatesan (heading for delete) would be reason enough to hold it, but I've spent quite a while scrolling past this on DYKN and being seriously concerned by the first hook. There are BLP issues here, most seriously a WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE -- we absolutely should not on ethical grounds run DYKs about subjects who have requested deletion. The first hook is a negative statement about at least one living person and probably two. The second hook is...not the absolute worst I've ever seen, but for this article in this context, with the subject requesting its deletion and accusing it of defamation, it's unconscionable to put it on the main page. Vaticidalprophet 09:32, 19 September 2023 (UTC)