Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sahar Qumsiyeh

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The result was delete. czar 19:12, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sahar Qumsiyeh[edit]

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Fails WP:NPROF WP:NAUTHOR and WP:ANYBIO. Nothing found in a BEFORE search to help notability Dom from Paris (talk) 15:11, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment. With only one publication in MathSciNet ("Mahalanobis distance under non-normality"), having only five citations in Google Scholar, she is very far from notability as a mathematician or statistician. Any notability would have to rest on her work with the Mormons. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:51, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

True, plus we would need some sources unrelated to the LDS, and my searches aren't finding them. Delete (but do ping me to reconsider if such sources are found.)E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:34, 28 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Everything makes me want to keep this article. I have struggled to include more articles in Wikipedia on Latter-day Saint women. "non-white" (maybe, the US census would count her as white) Latter-day Saints are also a group I have tried hard to include. Inclusion of more articles on women with careers such as math professor would also be wise. However now that articles on Mia Love and Astrid S. Tuminez among others have clearly reached the level of inclusion without question, I have accepted that we need to remove articles on people who just do not meet notability criteria. The issue is not that we need a source that is not in some way tied to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If we had a review of her work in BYU Studies and a whole issue of the Mormon Studies Review when it was under BYU control devoted to her book, than I think it would be clear she is notable. However not every writer of works in some way related to the restored gospel or the culture of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who gets a review of a book they wrote published in the Deseret News is notable, and that is the only thing tending towards a truly reliable source that we have here.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:35, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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