Talk:Paul Frampton/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

Vanity page

This looks like just a vanity page, but can someone with a little more experience come take a look? 96.2.245.30 (talk) 02:17, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

The page seems to match his resume fairly well and the title of "Distinguished Professor" is not given lightly, so I don't doubt the truth of it and whether it should be on Wikipedia. My father's a distinguished professor and if someone lied about it or his qualifications in general, trust me, they'd have his ass on a platter in minutes. The larger question is is the article too big. - Richfife (talk) 21:40, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

He's not lying about it; it's there on the UNC physics website. The problem is that it looks like the only person that has added anything substantial to this page is the subject himself. Also, is every distinguished professor qualified for a biography page? There are eight of them in the UNC physics department alone. (Muchacho Gasolino (talk) 04:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC))

Hmmm... One of the alternate (although not universally accepted) methods of determining academic notability is: "The academic is more notable than the average college instructor/professor". It would seem that a "distinguished professor" tag would satisfy that requirement, if only by a very small margin. - Richfife (talk) 16:15, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

That standard would imply that just slightly fewer than 50% of all college instructors merit an article. (If merit is continuously variable, then there is zero probability of any ties at the average or elsewhere.) —SlamDiego_←T 03:20, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't write it... - Richfife (talk) 02:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay, one question that I have is of how one knows that this page is autobiographical, rather than the work of a worshipful son or nephew? I'm not saying that worshipful articles are acceptable; they're not. (On the other hand, a worshipful author might none-the-less conform to the NPOV guidelines.) But were a hypothetical nephew editing this article, one could see how he would object to the article being tagged as autobiographical. —SlamDiego_←T 03:41, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Guessing its because he was original signing his comments with "Paul Frampton" and the names of three of his socks are all plays on that name. -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 03:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

The sockpuppets case presents a piece of evidence which clearly shows User:JohnHarold representing himself as Paul Frampton, and referring to what can only be this article as his “wiki-profile”. That argues against the Worshipful Nephew Theory. —SlamDiego_←T 04:02, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

(The reason that I had suggested a son or nephew was because one might well have exactly the same name.) —SlamDiego_←T 04:14, 30 June 2008 (UTC)