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Please also read Wikipedia:Notability. Deb (talk) 20:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, Deb. Thanks for taking notice of my work. I'm a physician in Princeton NJ, surrounded by a number of remarkable professors that don't have entries in Wikipedia. So, I started rectifying this with my first article on Prof. David August, which I'm guessing doesn't meet Wikipedia standards. Is this so? I've contacted the subject for more information about his career and contributions to add to the page, but any input from you would be much appreciated. Thanks!
- You might like to read Wikipedia:Notability_(academics). This gives the standards for when an academic should be included on Wikipedia. Currently, the article is up for speedy deletion, which means whoever tagged it doesn't believe it asserts notability (they should have notified you of this here by the way). If you have an idea of why you think they're notable, then please mention it. The article itself looks pretty good though. I hope you stay around and everything :) --Tombomp (talk/contribs) 21:38, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
- as the reviewing administrator, I see it clears at least asserts notability--I do not know if it does so sufficiently, but just asserting it is enough to pass speedy. What amounts to notability for a researcher is the notability of his research. This is judged by the degree to which other scientists regard his work as authoritative, which is measured by awards and positions, but also by the number and citations to published papers. Given the special nature of publications in computer science, you might want to check citations in both WebofScience and CiteSeer. Any science or engineering librarian can help you with this. I'd advise you to add this very quickly, before it gets nominated for regular deletion.
- As a general rule, even for places like Princeton, associate professors are considered borderline. Read some articles here about full professors, and then start with them. You might first want to see if any members of the National Academy of Scienc or the National Academy of Engineering do not have articles yet--such distinctions are considered as unquestionable indications of notability and suitability for an encyclopedia. DGG (talk) 22:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks DGG. I've worked on this first article for a while now, and hopefully it meets notability criteria. Please give me feedback. I'm also thinking about writing an article about (full) Prof. Leonard Babby, a well-published linguist at Princeton U. and/or Gillett G. Griffin, a notable authority on Pre-Columbian material culture and one of the last living friends of Albert Einstein. Neither of tbese gentlemen have Wikipedia articles, though I think both are mentioned in other entries. Any thoughts? Thanks again. Dlnathan (talk) 20:19, 29 June 2008 (UTC)