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Latest comment: 13 years ago8 comments3 people in discussion
WP:ACADEMIC: "It is possible for an academic to be notable according to this standard, and yet not be an appropriate topic for coverage in Wikipedia because of a lack of reliable, independent sources on the subject." HrafnTalkStalk17:03, 3 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
Nominate it for deletion if you like. Let me know and I will "vote" to delete, but the AfD will fail. WP serves as a Who's Who for professors, regardless of policy.Jaque Hammer (talk) 09:47, 29 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
Not much point -- that guideline tends to get ignored by the inclusionists who frequent AfDs. That crowd thinks that a former-camp-now-secondary-airstrip in Antarctica is notable, and a single sentence on an agreement in a book indexing approx 10,000 such agreements to be "significant coverage". To get this guy past that crowd, I'd have to prove that the men in black had erased all evidence that he ever existed. :/ HrafnTalkStalk(P)10:45, 29 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
He's not in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is however in Gales (but only has a short resume-like mention) -- I've added this to the article. HrafnTalkStalk(P)18:23, 29 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
You have to be dead to be in the ODNB! He's in Debrett, however, which I've converted to a ref, and with all those Fellowships he's got to be in Who's Who, which will have more biographical detail. I'll look in at the library tomorrow if I have time. --GuillaumeTell18:55, 29 November 2010 (UTC)Reply
