Talk:John Stuart Yeates

Notability

The notability of John Stuart Yeates rests on three factors (a) his MBE (b) the fact that he was founding heading agricultural botany at Massey University (c) his plant breeding and the international recognition of the same. Stuartyeates (talk) 05:06, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

conflict of interest

As User:Themfromspace correctly points out, I do have a conflict of interest, in that I'm writing about a family member (my late grandfather). I'm not trying to hide this. I still believe in the notability of the subject.Stuartyeates (talk) 05:56, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Maybe so, but WP:WHYCOI? -- samj _in^out 03:17, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

This incident was listed for discussion at WP:COIN -- samj _in^out 04:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Flagging an equal conflict of interest to Stuartyeates - writing about a family member peterxyz —Preceding undated comment added 22:38, 3 March 2009 (UTC).

TODO

• Make an infobox (adapt the one from Isaac Newton?)
• Find a pic
• Discuss Tararuas / Napier earthquake (references)
• add the Botanical Society obit to the references http://www.nzbotanicalsociety.org.nz/newsletter/nzbotsoc-2007-90.pdf
• maybe use the Bot Soc photo given acknowledged source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterxyz (talk • contribs) 14:38, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Notability

One objective criteria for Wikipedia:Notability_(academics) (and I've got a conflict of interest, so I can't use the subjective ones) is "6 The person has held a major highest-level elected or appointed academic post at an academic institution or major academic society." As said in the article "He was the founding head of Agricultural Botany at Massey" Head of department was one of only a handful of departments at the time and was the highest-level elected or appointed academic post at the institution.Stuartyeates (talk) 09:38, 23 February 2009 (UTC)