Talk:David States

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Notability[edit]

Hi.

This is a fascinating biography, and I realize it is still a work in progress. I added that tag at the top of the article because, as the article is now written, it does not meet our notability guidelines. The tag points you to the relevant policies so that you can find out where the article is lacking and fix it. As it stands however, it is dangerously close to meeting the criteria for speedy deletion.

In case you don't want to dig through policies, here is a quick list of my concerns:

The article needs to have references to reliable sources
The article needs to "assert the notability of its subject", in otherwords, why is Mr. Spade immportant? The article needs to say that, and that staement must be backed up with a source.
Guessing from your username, I think this may be autobiographical. Autobiographical articles are discouraged (but of course we have no way of knowing for sure).

The big thing is sources -- multiple published works that are independent of the article's subject which back up each and every statement made in the article. Get those in the article and the rest will take care of itself. If you really are this article's subject, you should be familiar with the concept of citing sources. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 04:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links to faculty page at University of Michigan added

Links to software co-authored by Dr. States that have their own Wikipedia pages CHARMM and BLAST added

Publications indexed at the National Library of Medicine added

Djstates 05:01, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

3rd opinion request[edit]

I've requested a third opinion in this matter. Perhaps I'm reading the guidelines a little too strictly, but if so it's because I've seen similar articles get deleted, and would like to see this one improved before someone else comes along and nominates it for deletion. At any rate, I won't add the tag back in just now. With luck someone will be by in the next day or so to take a look and provide another opinion. To whoever that is:Please note that most of the discussion has taken place on the user talk pages of User:ONUnicorn and User:Djstates. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 05:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Third opinion: Looks acceptable to me, though it needs to be wikilinked, cleaned up a bit, and hopefully expanded. --Flex 13:16, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating[edit]

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 09:47, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]