Talk:Bill Buchanan (computer scientist)

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Sourcing unacceptable for a BLP

This is almost entirely primary-sourced. It reads like an academic CV, not a Wikipedia article. There's a lot of facts here, but ... are there the third-party WP:RSes that show these facts are noteworthy enough to write about? - David Gerard (talk) 15:08, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Doing a serious cull of the bad sourcing. Wikipedia is not your resume - David Gerard (talk) 09:40, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Is there a source for the professional fellowships? (Those are basically the things that make him pass WP:NPROF) - David Gerard (talk) 23:07, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Buchanan is NOT listed as a Fellow of the IET - David Gerard (talk) 23:09, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

This list purports to be just a few of our recently elected Fellows, so Buchanan's absence does not indicate he is not a fellow. Of course, at the moment, the only source we have for his membership is the Napier bio. BenKuykendall (talk) 02:16, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

the claim can't go in without a source. Searching the site for "buchanan fellow" doesn't give any evidence - but it does give a newsletter in which another new fellow called Buchanan is listed - David Gerard (talk) 11:21, 22 December 2018 (UTC)

Is he the William Johnston Buchanan listed here? - David Gerard (talk) 23:12, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Mostly cleaned up

Since the article was substantially trimmed by myself and others in the past month, I think most of the points in the maintenance templates were addressed:

• The article is no longer written like an advertisement.
• Most of the contributions of Billatnapier (talk · contribs) and the ip editors have been removed, so little to no COI issues.
• A primary source is still used for basic biographical information. This is not ideal, but not dire enough to warrant a maintenance template.
• The puffery has been removed.

Notability might still be an issues, and at this point the article is a stub. But at least the remaining content is much more encyclopedic. BenKuykendall (talk) 07:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

This seems to have caught WP:PUFFERY again since the work summarised above. I have re-tagged as advertisement. Have also deleted some of the lengthy quotations after checking with Diannaa about excessive user of non-free content. Have tagged with some sources unreliable (self-published) and that some do not verify the statements to which they are attached. Am about to ask for help on WP:IMAGEHELP about copyright of recently added images. Unsure that the YouTube videos at the start belong in the article either. Tacyarg (talk) 23:35, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Have removed images with unclear copyright status (left in those which could potentially be selfies or taken by Billatnapier) and cut some unsourced or poorly sourced statements (primary sources, self-published info). Have tagged as CoI due to the promotional text added. Article currently has 345 refs, of which a handful are duplicates. As far as I can see, these are the only secondary reliable sources included:

• Times Higher Education, confirms award
• THES again, confirms one of the "50 most influential higher education professionals using social media in the UK"
• FutureScot magazine, lists Buchanan as "50 people from various areas of Scotland’s technology industries who are changing the world"
• Insider, unsure if this is reliable, may be based on a press release; Buchanan is quoted
• Deadline News, may be based on a press release; Buchanan is quoted

Interested in others' views, but thinking of stripping article back to what can be sourced as above, and similar to the 2019 version here.

I have tagged the most recent IP editors' Talk pages with CoI notices, but unsured how much point there is to this given the frequent changes in IP. Tacyarg (talk) 12:13, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

COI tag (December 2023)

Promotional text added by several IP editors - example, "has a reputation for high impact, fun and engaging presentations". Images uploaded by Billatnapier and then added to article by IP editors. Tacyarg (talk) 11:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC)