Talk:Alan Reid (mathematician)

Contested deletion
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here) --Rybu (talk) 06:31, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi there,

The article was originally contested as not notable. So I looked up the criteria for notability, and this included things such as endowed chair positions and prestigious awards and recognitions.

So I added Reid's ICM address (one of the highest and rarest honours in math) together with his two endowed chair positions, one that he currently holds, as well as his popular book.

I suppose I was shocked that, on the face of it, it looks like the notability concerns were addressed but the page was deleted without comment. If his endowed chair positions and ICM address aren't the kind of recognition you want to see, what would qualify? They seem to work for other mathematicians -- for example should Ian Agol's ICM address be removed from his page as "not notable"?

If you leave the draft up for a little while, the page will be thickened-up a bit by other people. I barely know Reid, I was just putting up something basic.

It seems Wikipedia is getting far more aggressive about deleting pages than it used to. This leaves one to wonder, how can pages be built if they are killed off when young? Clearly there is a new process. I've been contributing to Wikipedia for a long time and have created many successful pages. I don't think any have been deleted before.

Thanks,

-ryan


 * Hi, I'm not sure what happened here, but I can only assume it was some kind of mix up, as the page shouldn't have been deleted in my view. -Kj cheetham (talk) 19:55, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

AfC Reviewer Comment
I accepted the article submission since the barebone information on the page is verifiable and the subject notable. I would like to point out that WP:PROF explicitly does not require independent coverage in reliable sources. Felix QW (talk) 09:35, 25 June 2022 (UTC)