Talk:Sara Diamond (academic administrator)

Degree

There's a bit of dispute over Dr. Diamond's PhD. Diggitydawgforsythe (talk · contribs) added this link to 'clarify' but at the end of the day, it's still a computer science degree. --Me-123567-Me (talk) 18:43, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

I think that user might be right. There is a Globe and Mail article which uses the PhD title but when you look at smart lab they seem to state pretty clearly that SmartLAB offers "practice-based PhDs (Live and Online) in Media Art" nowhere on their site can I find a mention of a PhD program in Computer Science. None of the publications during Dr, Diamond's PhD period were in any journals of computer science. I also have yet to find a member of the SmartLAB faculty which has a PhD in CS. How do you award a PhD in computer science without any faculty who are PhDs in the same field? I want to go over the staff bios more carefully before we make a change but this is starting to look like reasonable doubt207.204.247.254 (talk) 22:18, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm glad that this issue has been raised again, and I'd be happy to conduct more research to support my original edit. That Dr. Diamond holds a PhD is not being questioned, but whether it's a PhD in Computer Science or in Media Arts certainly is - and that's no small distinction. The fact that SmartLAB doesn't offer a PhD. CS should be sufficient support for this change. Not to be picky, but a layperson's assessment that "at the end of the day" two things are roughly equivalent is no substitute for accuracy.Diggitydawgforsythe (talk) 20:02, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Yes, I should have been a bit clearer. There is no dispute about the degree just the specialty the main reason I was drawn to this was because I was looking to pursue my PhD in Computer Science and read the article in the Globe and Mail. While SmartLab wasn't really top on my list of schools I did try to make contact with some of them via email and didn't get a response. While trying to find further information I found this Wiki talk page. I've done a rundown of all the primary teaching staff at SmartLAB and I can't find anyone with a PhD in CS. I'll call and see if I can catch someone over there to clear this up.207.204.247.254 (talk)

Conflict of Interest

I placed a COI tag on the page as User:Sara L. Diamond seems to be both contributor and subject of the article - Yorkshiresoul (talk) 16:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

Article title

Should the article be renamed, such as to Sara Louise Diamond (her full name according to Canadian Who’s Who) or Sara Diamond (artist) or similar, instead of Sara Diamond (academic)? Isn’t the other Sara Diamond also an academic? When you search for papers written by Sara Diamond both come up in roughly equal numbers and I think it’s kind of misleading to label this one an academic and the other one not.—Al12si (talk) 15:10, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 8 March 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. There is consensus to move this page because the parenthetical "academic" is clearly ambiguous. I have chosen not to use birth years as a disambiguator because I consider 1954 and 1958 to be too close together to provide sufficient disambiguation. I have chosen not to move to "artist" because her field also encompasses design, and I get the impression she is notable as a university president rather than an artist. In line with similar articles (such as David Allison (college president) and Frank Peters (college president)), I have chosen to use "college president". I have not moved the other article because there was no notification of a potential move there. If this is not felt to be adequate or appropriate, please open a new request. DrKiernan (talk) 20:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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Sara Diamond (academic) → Sara Diamond (artist) – As the section above notes, the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Sara Diamond is also an academic. This one needs a more distinctive name. If the sociologist really is a primary topic, the old title should redirect to her. It might also make sense to move Sara Diamond to Sara Diamond (sociologist) and have a dab at the base title. I probably would've done this myself, but I didn't want to disrupt the ongoing Women in the Arts edit-a-thons, which has noted this article as of interest. I'm also open to other titles that would adequately disambiguate against the sociologist, such as, perhaps, Sara Diamond (Canadian academic) or Sara Diamond (scientist). --Relisted. Sunrise (talk) 01:36, 16 March 2015 (UTC) --BDD (talk) 17:56, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

• Comment well, the current title is ambiguous, so the disambiguator serves no useful function, thus needing to be renamed, whatever it gets called. Sara Diamond (born 1954) for this article and Sara Diamond (born 1958) for the other article would seem best, since they are both American-born academics, who do not have a single field in which they confine their studies -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 04:14, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, WP:NCPDAB discourages years, though that could complement an otherwise ambiguous disambiguator, e.g., Sara Diamond (academic, born 1954). Titles still need to be recognizable, and years alone rarely achieves that. --BDD (talk) 15:01, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

• Support as nominated. Sara Diamond (academic) → Sara Diamond (artist). And I also support Sara Diamond → Sara Diamond (sociologist) and make a dab page.  — Amakuru (talk) 18:28, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

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• Thanks, DrKiernan. I approve. --BDD (talk) 17:14, 25 March 2015 (UTC)