[WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings

Thu Sep 22 11:29:45 UTC 2005

Thing is, the only verifiable thing about me in this context would be that
I was one of the authors of a paper.  If I am no-one special then ipso
facto I shouldn't have an article.  I may have an Erdos x Bacon number of
27 but I reckon anything below about 10 for that is not notable enough :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony DiPierro [mailto:wikispam at inbox.org]
> Sent: 22 September 2005 12:17 AM
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: FW: [WikiEN-l] Improper speedy taggings
>
>
> Why isn't Wikipedia best served by both? If someone comes across one of
> your
> papers and wants to know more about the author, isn't that useful, even if
> they just find out that the author is no one special?
>
> There's clearly a potential benefit, and I just don't see what the
> negative
> is. As long as you stick to insisting that everything in the article is
> easily verifiable, anyway (which is already a rule outside of notability).
>
> I suppose you could argue that such an article is best served by a
> dedicated
> wiki, one for all authors, for instance. But that would mean either
> creating
> a fork or taking all articles on authors out of Wikipedia entirely. The
> other alternative, to have notable authors in Wikipedia and non-notable
> ones
> out of Wikipedia, would likely cause way too many problems in
> implementation. Taking all articles on authors out of Wikipedia is very
> unlikely to happen, so you're basically ensuring a fork.
>
> Anthony
>
> 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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