> The edit history on wikipedia shows an article was created and then deleted in 2014, not "just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel". Gioia is

> The edit history on wikipedia shows an article was created and then deleted in 2014, not "just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel". Gioia is referring to this page, which was created in March 2018 and rejected in May 2018, which is indeed "just a few months before Donna Strickland won the Nobel": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=842614385 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=842614385 (However, the stated rejection reason was that the draft article did not provide the required level of independent reliable sources.)