Talk:Bill Buchanan (computer scientist)

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Sourcing unacceptable for a BLP
This is almost entirely primary-sourced. It reads like an academic CV, not a Wikipedia article. There's a lot of facts here, but ... are there the third-party WP:RSes that show these facts are noteworthy enough to write about? - David Gerard (talk) 15:08, 22 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Doing a serious cull of the bad sourcing. Wikipedia is not your resume - David Gerard (talk) 09:40, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Is there a source for the professional fellowships? (Those are basically the things that make him pass WP:NPROF) - David Gerard (talk) 23:07, 21 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Buchanan is NOT listed as a Fellow of the IET - David Gerard (talk) 23:09, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * This list purports to be just a few of our recently elected Fellows, so Buchanan's absence does not indicate he is not a fellow. Of course, at the moment, the only source we have for his membership is the Napier bio. BenKuykendall (talk) 02:16, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
 * the claim can't go in without a source. Searching the site for "buchanan fellow" doesn't give any evidence - but it does give a newsletter in which another new fellow called Buchanan is listed - David Gerard (talk) 11:21, 22 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Is he the William Johnston Buchanan listed here? - David Gerard (talk) 23:12, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Mostly cleaned up
Since the article was substantially trimmed by myself and others in the past month, I think most of the points in the maintenance templates were addressed: Notability might still be an issues, and at this point the article is a stub. But at least the remaining content is much more encyclopedic. BenKuykendall (talk) 07:53, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The article is no longer written like an advertisement.
 * Most of the contributions of and the ip editors have been removed, so little to no COI issues.
 * A primary source is still used for basic biographical information. This is not ideal, but not dire enough to warrant a maintenance template.
 * The puffery has been removed.
 * This seems to have caught WP:PUFFERY again since the work summarised above. I have re-tagged as advertisement. Have also deleted some of the lengthy quotations after checking with about excessive user of non-free content. Have tagged with some sources unreliable (self-published) and that some do not verify the statements to which they are attached. Am about to ask for help on WP:IMAGEHELP about copyright of recently added images. Unsure that the YouTube videos at the start belong in the article either. Tacyarg (talk) 23:35, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Have removed images with unclear copyright status (left in those which could potentially be selfies or taken by Billatnapier) and cut some unsourced or poorly sourced statements (primary sources, self-published info). Have tagged as CoI due to the promotional text added. Article currently has 345 refs, of which a handful are duplicates. As far as I can see, these are the only secondary reliable sources included:
 * Times Higher Education, confirms award
 * THES again, confirms one of the "50 most influential higher education professionals using social media in the UK"
 * FutureScot magazine, lists Buchanan as "50 people from various areas of Scotland’s technology industries who are changing the world"
 * Insider, unsure if this is reliable, may be based on a press release; Buchanan is quoted
 * Deadline News, may be based on a press release; Buchanan is quoted
 * Interested in others' views, but thinking of stripping article back to what can be sourced as above, and similar to the 2019 version here.
 * I have tagged the most recent IP editors' Talk pages with CoI notices, but unsured how much point there is to this given the frequent changes in IP. Tacyarg (talk) 12:13, 31 December 2023 (UTC)

COI tag (December 2023)
Promotional text added by several IP editors - example, "has a reputation for high impact, fun and engaging presentations". Images uploaded by Billatnapier and then added to article by IP editors. Tacyarg (talk) 11:37, 31 December 2023 (UTC)