The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Ahem. AfD is not for cleanup, but wouldn't it be nice if editors added the references they found to the article? Clear keep, BTW. Drmies (talk) 19:42, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Qanta A. Ahmed[edit]

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Not notable. Fails WP:PROF, and - as far as I can tell - WP:GNG. St Anselm (talk) 07:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 15:24, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 15:24, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. I'm seeing a fair amount of national and international coverage of her book [1] [2] [3] [4]. And I think her prominent editorial writing in multiple major newspapers e.g. [5] [6] may take this beyond WP:BIO1E. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:18, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. In addition to the links provided by David Eppstein, I see a positive book review in Boston Globe [7] and editorial writing for CNN [8]... Tradedia (talk) 23:50, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The subject appears to have received a significant amount of coverage in reliable sources. The person appears to meet the notability guidelines for biographies. Alpha_Quadrant (talk) 17:55, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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