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Ayana Jordan

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Assistant professor (MD/PHD in 2011, completed residency in 2015) who does not meet the notability standard for academics or GNG. The article itself is promotional and CV like, which reflects use of sources promoting Jordan such as https://votejordan.squarespace.com/. Eostrix  (🦉hoot hoot🦉) 08:22, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:25, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:25, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 08:25, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I am so sorry, the links to the page you mention have been removed as have the associated sentences. Other than this, she meets the notbaility criteria by a wide margin as she is the winner of many national awards (from the APA and the AMA) and she is the director of global health at yale and her research has been highly cited, and she is known in the media for her efforts to prevent a refugee from being deported from America based on mental health status and her research on Sierra leone. Please let me know if this conflicts with your ideas of notability and I am happy to discuss further. 08:38, 25 June 2020 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added byMicroglia145 (talk • contribs)
The awards are early career awards, I don't see how she meets any of the eight criteria in WP:NACADEMIC. Media coverage of Jordan is insufficient for WP:GNG. She certainly fits the profile of an outstanding young scientist, however that is insufficient for Wikipedia notability.--Eostrix  (🦉hoot hoot🦉) 08:43, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Are early career awards explicitly excluded from awards considered for merit in Wikipedia? If not I do not see how an award being early career is not notable. Many early career awards are extremely prestigious and notable. These awards are not made to students, but to young excellent scientist who already hold PhDs or equivalent degrees. Npadilla5 (talk) 18:05, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Eostrix: AfD is not for cleanup, if articles are promotional and CV like, that is not a reason for deletion. Also, please see the references provided below that demonstrate why this definitely meets GNG. gobonobo + c 07:27, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The sources provided do no establish GNG, and are mostly short interview blurbs within a larger topic.--Eostrix  (🦉hoot hoot🦉) 08:00, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that makes sense, but this is not the only criteria. There are many other ways she is notable. Can you speak to how she does not meet the other criteria? There are plenty of autobiographies on Wiki with lower H-indexes but the people are notable for other reasons. Let me know.
Microglia145 (talk) 15:57, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
it actually looks like she meets the criteria for notable physicians! Why don't we just go with that. Though she is more notable than most academics on Wikipedia, if we categorize her as notable physician (mostly for the awards and honors she has won) then this will be great. Let me know what I can do to remove the deletion tag and change her category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Microglia145 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I am not aware of a notability guideline for physicians, it is not listed in Wikipedia:Notability (people). Her awards are early career awards and do not confer notability. She does not meet GNG.--Eostrix  (🦉hoot hoot🦉) 16:26, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
here is the link for doctors notability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(doctors) and her honor of being elected to the APA is literally one of the notability criteria for academics "The person has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society) or a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor (e.g., Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)." I realized that you do not study psychology or neuroscience, so I thought I would point out that the American Psychiatry Association (APA) is a prestigious scholarly society. I think this concludes that she meets both the basic notability criteria for a person as well as for the academic category and for this doctor category that I found. Also, she was appointed to the director of the Global Mental Health Program at Yale, this is the highest position you can have at Yale in this program. This also meets the criteria. I hope this clarifies things. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Microglia145 (talk • contribs) 16:59, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Microglia145, the page you linked to for Notability of doctors (physicians outside the USA) starts with a notice that this page, and presumably the criteria included, have been retired. That's probably why it's not listed as a subject specific set of criteria under Notability_(People). MoneciousTriffid (talk) 20:55, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
in addition, she meets this criteria as well "The person has had a substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity". based on her research on mental health stigma, she was covered in The New Yorker for her court testimony to prevent the deportation of a Sierra Leone refugee. The fact that this was covered in high impact news and that she is able to use her research on mental health stigma in Sierra Leone to impact the community and prevent deportation in this way is making a substantial impact outside of Academia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Microglia145 (talk • contribs) 17:07, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This statement seems quite unsupported since you have not listed the types of awards that pass the criteria. She has won awards and recognition from the APA, ASCP and is was an International AWP Fellow... this is an internationally recognized honor. I am confused why these national and international awards and honors are not notable? There is nothing on Wikipedia that says they are not notable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Microglia145 (talk • contribs) 20:28, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Think it might be WP:Too soon as per Xxanthippe. Wp.Nprof isn't matched, though nearly there. If the Global Mental Health Program wasn't at Yale she would be accepted, that she has been invited to be a member of the advisory board of The Lancet does not count against nprof but is pretty notable outside of wikipedia rules. Apa is not an elected membership so does not meet this rule.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 19:37, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Her APA membership was elected though as per this APA link https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/awards-leadership-opportunities/leadership-opportunities/elections/2018-apa-election-results — Preceding unsigned comment added by Microglia145 (talk • contribs) 20:23, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
But its the organisation she belongs too. To be a member of a royal society you are nominated by a member and then voted by the membership to allow entry, which meets the rules. APA is not a such organisation, all you have to do is pass a residency test as per their own website.if she was voted to chair she would be notable. That's why I have not voted as I think she is close to notability. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 20:37, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete It is a very low h-index and insufficient individually cited article to support keep. I don't see much else. I've posted another women in a similar position, low h-index and barely any citations. There is not much else. scope_creepTalk 20:39, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Is H-index a necessity for an academic? If not for the H-index, she would meet the criteria, right due to her APA election and Lancet Editor position and being awarded an International Fellow of the AWP? It seems that she would meet the "General" notability criteria as well as the "Physician" notability criteria (which I just found recently, not sure if this is new?). Is there a way to change the "identity" of the article such that it is a general biography or a physician biography? It feels flawed that someone might be notable enough in other regards (excluding H-index) but then not be able to have a page?
Microglia145 (talk) 21:20, 25 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. All the h-index hand wringing above completely ignores the fact that the subject most assuredly meets WP:BASIC. A google search shows that this Yale professor has had loads of significant coverage related to her substance abuse work (NBC News, WBUR), on her methadone patients (Vice) and the role of telemedicine during the pandemic (MedPage Today), methadone precriptions (Lancet), the effect of cannabis on the brain [1], and whether people are getting high on wasp spray. (Inverse) She sits on the board of trustees of the American Psychiatry Assocation [2], studied mental health in Sierra Leone (The New Yorker), is medical director of one of Yale's training programs [3], and is principal investigator for Imani Breakthrough Recovery. ([4]) She also recently received media coverage for her role in SharetheMic (NBC News, Shape) and her opinion on the George Floyd protests. (Newsweek) All together, these multiple independent sources demonstrate notability. gobonobo + c 07:19, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Those links do not establish GNG, they are mostly just short interview blurbs within a larger piece and are not about Jordan. Throwing every single link, as you have, in which Jordan is devoted a one or two paragraph quote among quotes by other experts, is not GNG. The only link there of any depth is by her employer announcing an Special Instagram Live Session.--Eostrix  (🦉hoot hoot🦉) 07:58, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
That's twice that you've cherry-picked the weakest source then claimed it represented the whole. These sources establish GNG, and even if they didn't , per BASIC, If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability. gobonobo + c 22:46, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I took a look at the guidelines for notability in academics and it does seem to me that the subject does meet both (3) "The person has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society) or a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor..." as well as (7) "The person has had a substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity" based on the information shared above by Gobonobo.SevennRosess (talk) 05:52, 27 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I am confused why h-index is being brought up so much in this discussion, when the guidelines in WP:PROF clearly state that citation measures such as the h-index are of limited use in determining whether someone meets the notability criteria. I am in agreement with the above users who believe this subject meets notability criteria, for the reasons they have articulated. DK.Sci (talk) 04:31, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    • The h-index is a standard and frequent way for us to measure academic impact and passage of WP:PROF#C1. What the guidelines should say to more accurately reflect our practice is that even though we often use the h-index we should use it with great care, because the standards vary from field to field and because it doesn't work well in some fields. In this case the field is psychiatry, it is a field where citations are relevant, and in it citation numbers tend to be large. So we can factor that in when judging that her citation numbers are relevant and are not large enough to pass WP:PROF#C1. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:34, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
H-index doesn't seem like the best indicator in this case, since the subject is having impact on the field at an earlier career stage than usual (see: https://publons.com/blog/5-things-the-h-index-cant-tell-you/). There are more leadership roles than I would expect for an asst prof, particularly heading the global public health program and the APA leadership role. Unusual for early stage, and speaks to reputation and impact. The topic also doesn't usually get as many citations as other fields, so H-index seems to be a less accurate measure of impact than usual. Nicotinian (talk) 19:12, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well, saying that h-index isn't a good indicator in this case is one thing, but saying that her citations are impactful is another, and that needs evidence. Early-career leadership roles are not evidence of impact. Working in a subtopic that gets fewer citations is not evidence of impact. All the talk of h-index here amounts to the fact that the standard ways of providing evidence of impact do not show it in her case. We can interpret that as meaning that she does not have impact, or we can interpret it as meaning that the impact exists but is not measured by those standard ways, but the outcome is the same: without evidence we can't keep the article. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:29, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/share-the-mic-now-med-campaign-black-female-doctors. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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