Philip Sandifer wrote:
See also Timothy Noah's recent article on Slate for this - it gives a good view of how notability guidelines look to the outside. In this case, it's how they look to the subject of the article, but I assure you - they look similar to people who are familiar with the subject. In short, they appear a Kafka-esque absurdity.
I'd have to say this is how it looks to many academics as well. Even biographies of extremely famous researchers are routinely hauled into AfD with piles of ignorant "d, nn" votes. There's a reason we almost never have an article on a Nobel Prize winner before he or she actually wins a Nobel Prize---because any researcher whose fame is even a bit short of "won a Nobel Prize" is deleted as non-notable.
-Mark