Talk:B. Montgomery Pettitt

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 * This looks like a resume and an advertisement for this individual and not a valid article. Indrian | Talk 22:29, July 22, 2004
 * Delete in present form/ask the contributor to rewrite it. This is an actual, honest-to-goodness CV.  The figure is notable, but a Clean Up crew probably can't know enough about him to write this in a narrative form.  On the other hand, the author of the article can easily make this look more like an encycl. article. Geogre 13:47, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, but it's a really weak keep. Camembert did great work, and it's now comprehensible, but it's still lingering toward the CV side.  It would have been good if the original author had looked at Wikipedia a bit before writing. Geogre 03:25, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how notable he is, chemistry is not my field, but if he is notable then keep, if not notable then delete. The info there is verifiable and can be reworked (or not, I'm not sure what's wrong with the CV form for your "more than the average" less than public intellectual professor, it concisely tells you what is important about them, hence why we use this format in academia.  Perhaps with another paragraph on "research interests", which is usually a part of the CV anyways--Samuel J. Howard 21:13, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
 * Just a comment: One of the commands of the wiki is "encyclopedic format," I believe. A CV lists items without explanation, as they're put there to entice employers.  I would think an artice would, instead, explain the life in the context of the world, rather than bullet-point achievements.  Geogre 00:25, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Not a vote, but note that I've reworked the CV-like parts into prose (a CV format is concise, I agree, but we're an encyclopedia, and it isn't really suitable for our purposes - the CV format also doesn't take to expansion very well), and moved the page to B. Montgomery Pettitt. I've not made any attempt to expand the article, but remember that an article needing expansion is no reason to delete it. --Camembert 00:59, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Your efforts certainly help bring the page more up to snuff, but this does not allay my original concern that this is merely a CV of an insignificant figure. I am no chemist, and if some experts comment in here, confirm he is an important figure, and provide the necessary information to update the article with the figure's signifigance, then I am perfectly satisfied by this and think no further action is necessary.  However, I do not feel this site should list every professor at every university in the United States that is engaged in research of only minor signifigance or has only the potential to become something important.  I eargerly await more input.  Indrian 02:00, July 24, 2004
 * Keep. Getting an endowed chair at a major university is sufficient notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 15:58, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with Wile E. Heresiarch. Ianb 00:26, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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