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That depends on whether it is considered a "notable award or honor" per
WP:ANYBIO. The contest/award does not have a Wikipedia article, which suggests that it may not be notable.
WWGB (
talk)
05:37, 20 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete, while this award is a great achievement for someone of that age, opening the door for biogs of ~140 school leavers per year has the potential of ruining the lives of at least a few of them. Unless they have other significant awards or achievements, the recipients can be listed on pages like "List of 2008 Presidential Scholars". John Vandenberg(
chat)22:38, 22 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep. While in principle I agree entirely with
John Vandenberg, the cat is out of the bag on this; there's an official Presidential Scholars site, which appears to be opt-in for the honorees
[1]. The award/honor itself is clearly notable. And there does seem to be a very rate of honorees accumulating other forms of notability.
Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (
talk)
00:17, 27 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete We have never considered such school honors significant in themselves for notability--at a much higher level, we don't even consider the Rhodes Scholars as necessarily notable, though of course a good number of them do become so in their later career. DGG (
talk )
19:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)reply
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That depends on whether it is considered a "notable award or honor" per
WP:ANYBIO. The contest/award does not have a Wikipedia article, which suggests that it may not be notable.
WWGB (
talk)
05:37, 20 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete, while this award is a great achievement for someone of that age, opening the door for biogs of ~140 school leavers per year has the potential of ruining the lives of at least a few of them. Unless they have other significant awards or achievements, the recipients can be listed on pages like "List of 2008 Presidential Scholars". John Vandenberg(
chat)22:38, 22 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep. While in principle I agree entirely with
John Vandenberg, the cat is out of the bag on this; there's an official Presidential Scholars site, which appears to be opt-in for the honorees
[1]. The award/honor itself is clearly notable. And there does seem to be a very rate of honorees accumulating other forms of notability.
Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (
talk)
00:17, 27 September 2009 (UTC)reply
Delete We have never considered such school honors significant in themselves for notability--at a much higher level, we don't even consider the Rhodes Scholars as necessarily notable, though of course a good number of them do become so in their later career. DGG (
talk )
19:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)reply
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