Talk:Robert Williams (geometer)

Bio

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Robert Edward Williams - (Class of 1960) - mathematician, architect, and designer. He is known for books on geometry for scientists and designers (The Geometry of Natural Structure), the development of theoretical principles of Catenatic Geometry (The Kiss Catenatic: The Introduction of Catenatic Geometry and its Environs), and the invention of the Ars-Vivant Wild-life Protector System for repopulating the Western Mojave Desert in California with desert tortoises.

ISBN 978-0-9823465-1-8

This isbn is not found in Google books. See this. Also see this edit (I've re-added the other book mentioned there, as I found its isbn in Google books). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:13, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Nevertheless, it is a valid ISBN according to the Library of Congress: http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&CNT=25+records+per+page&CMD=isbn+9780982346518. On the other hand, there is no showing that the book is notable, the publisher is not reliable, and the book and its writer appear to be WP:FRINGE. —Finell 05:28, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

I have his 1979 book The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure, very good geometric source book, but don't know about the new stuff. Tom Ruen (talk) 06:19, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

Change to article about book

At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Williams (geometer), there were strong arguments against keeping this as a biographical article. There was no notability established, other than arguably about the book The Geometrical Foundation of Natural Structure: A Source Book of Design. Therefore, this article needs to be rewritten to be about the book, rather than the person. — Sebastian 07:15, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm struggling to see that as the consensus from the AFD. There's barely anything in this article about that book.--Michig (talk) 07:59, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

There's barely anything in Google news, Google scholar, and Google books about that book. How are we supposed to make an article about it? —David Eppstein (talk) 17:01, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

I agree, a very strange close, which does not seem to me to reflect the AfD's consensus. Nsk92 (talk) 14:17, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

You have good points. I just replied to them at User talk:SebastianHelm#Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Williams (geometer). I usually prefer for such discussions to take place on the article talk page, but since this page may be deleted anyway, let's keep it on my talk page for now. — Sebastian 18:03, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

The article is now in excellent state. It should go back into main space. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:08, 16 July 2010 (UTC). Done. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:16, 18 August 2010 (UTC).