[WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings

Fri Sep 16 17:32:29 UTC 2005

On Sep 16, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Fastfission wrote:
>

>  Being a fellow with a job which
> you went to school for is not in itself notable to the world at large,
> even if that job is being professor at a prominent university.
>

>
For what it's worth, I disagree. I think that in an encyclopedia,  
which values peer-reviewed sources and academic knowledge  
particularly highly, there is a real case to be made that professors  
at accredited universities are notable. The way I see it, pretty much  
all professors, whether PhDs, JDs, or whatever, have made some sort  
of contribution to their field - law review articles, dissertations,  
other publications. If we're the sum total of human knowledge, we'd  
cover all those contributions. Thus articles on the professors seem  
sensible by default.

I'll go one further, in fact. I think everyone who has been main or  
sole author on a publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal  
deserves a Wikipedia article. Yes, this would include a whole lot of  
grad students. But if they're making or have made verifiable  
contributions to their field, we should be including them. No question.

-Snowspinner