FW: [WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings

Wed Sep 21 15:34:36 UTC 2005

I agree. Notability is useless. Certainly, if there was enough notable
information on someone to write a decent length article on the person,
then they should have an article. But, if you have to pad it with
stuff about his being arrested for playing too much ddr, then....

On 9/21/05, Worldtraveller <wikipedia at world-traveller.org> wrote:
> > 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
>
> Nah, I disagree with that.  I've written several papers in astronomy, and
> a referee's report has even described me as a world leader in my field,
> but I'd hate to see an article about myself.  The specific field I am
> allegedly a world leader in does not even deserve its own article,
> although it gets a mention in [[planetary nebula]] (because I wrote that)
> and one of my papers is cited in [[Cat's Eye Nebula]].
>
> Wikipedia readers are far better served by a brief mention of my field in
> the appropriate context than they would be by any article on my personal
> contribution to that field, and I suspect the same is true for 90% of
> published academics.
>
> WT
>
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