Makes me remember Donna Strickland, a Nobel prize winning physicist, whose Wikipedia article was rejected multiple times, saying she was not notable enough to have one.
This is a mischaracterization. The issue was lack of volunteer effort writing an adequate article, not failure of the subject to meet Wikipedia’s notability guideline.
> Was this article previously deleted because Wikipedia editors thought that Strickland was not notable?
> No. One previous attempt to create this article, in 2014, was deleted because it was copyright infringement. In March 2018, an editor declined to publish a draft article on Strickland, but this draft was not deleted; it remained in existence until it was superseded by the current version of the article, created in October 2018. The reviewer's pro forma reason for declining included a link to our notability guidelines for biographies, but in a subsequent discussion most editors agreed that Strickland was notable before she won the Nobel Prize. The reviewer clarified that they agreed that Strickland was notable, but had declined to publish the draft because at the time it did not include any references to independent, reliable sources.
