Talk:Gordon Rausser

Neutrality and citations needed
In three edits, who has no other edits, made significant additions to the article. These additions primarily seem to be written to make Rausser seem important or are otherwise biased in favor of him. For example, Dr. Rausser is proud to be a product of California’s public education system, The effects of Rausser’s leadership and achievement at Berkeley are broad and deep, and Rausser’s imprint on the Berkeley campus is nowhere greater than at the College of Natural Resources, where his leadership as dean from 1994 to 2000 made a crucial difference. Faced in 1994 with a campus realignment proposal that would have significantly cut the College’s faculty and discretionary resources, Dr. Rausser instead led a fundamental restructuring that substantively increased the quality of all of its programs. Also, these additions have no sources, other than a single book by Rausser that is not even a biography. I'm loathe to revert the changes entirely, but there's some massive cleanup that needs to be done.

See also WP:BLPN for discussion there.

Gbear605 (talk) 00:58, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
 * The same user (and an anonymous user that is almost certainly the same person) made some significant changes in this series of edits. I've removed the "awards" section and the "selected publications" section, since both were overly length and WP:UNDUE. I left most of the changes to the body text, although I re-added many of the references that had been removed. Gbear605 (talk) 23:37, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Another single-purpose account has been making recent changes as well. I presume that it is the same person yet again.
 * Both SPAs have made changes again that removed all the sources, in addition to making Draft:List_of_awards_and_honors_received_by_Gordon_Rausser (which was not originally in Draft space but was moved there by ). Gbear605 (talk) 01:06, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

"Awards and Honors" Section
In Articles for deletion/List of awards and honors received by Gordon Rausser, they reached Consensus is to do a partial merge of only the notable awards back to the main article on Rausser. However, merged all the awards and honors into this page under the "Awards and Honors" section. This large section is WP:UNDUE, given that it's larger than the entire rest of the article, but per the consensus on the AfD, some of the awards/honors should be present, although ideally they would be integrated into the article's body. Both Choielliotjwa and have been in an edit war removing and re-adding this awards section.

There is an ongoing discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents about this. Per Reywas92, the list is copyrighted by Rausser. I do see a lot of the awards listed there as well, but it doesn't appear to be blatant copyright to me.

It seems clear to me that the right move now is to remove most of the awards from this list, since we only want to include the notable awards. However, I'm not sure which of the awards are notable. Does anyone want to provide any commentary?

Gbear605 (talk) 18:58, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

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Edit request: Copyright banner
I am currently working as a paid, disclosed COI editor. My COI disclosure statement can be found at User:Choielliotjwa & Talk:Gordon Rausser. I am working to get the copyright banner removed from the article on Gordon Rausser under the 'Awards' section. The Awards section with the source in question has since been removed and will not be added again in the future (both the Awards section & source). A description of the banner can be found here. Would it be possible to have the banner removed at this point? Choielliotjwa (talk) 23:55, 5 April 2021 (UTC)


 * The issue is with admins,copyright clerks, or the volunteer response team. Once a ticket has been opened, editors shouldn't just go and delete the section. Let the process run.  They'll get to it eventually. Ferkjl (talk) 13:15, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The banner has been removed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:09, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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