FW: [WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings

Thu Sep 22 10:51:51 UTC 2005

Dude, I'd say anybody with an Erdös-Bacon product of 27 is notable :P

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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