Talk:John Vidale

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Can this page just be deleted? This person is nowhere near important enough to have their own wiki! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.35.141.39 (talk) 00:03, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please delete this article. I originally started it before reading the relevant guidelines, and if it seems a degradation in wikipedia to readers, let's send it to Timbuktu. John (talk) 03:48, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Notability
This page was marked for my lack of notability on 4-10, so I put in more detail (4-11-07), with a criteria I noticed somewhere of 2 mentions in the popular press as the target. Now potential lack of an objective point of view is invoked, which I don't really see from the prose.

Some less productive scientists than me are listed, but many more productive ones are not (I'm tempted to start adding some of the most accomplished seismologists to make my entry less of an eyesore). I'm not offended whatever the moderators decide, if they even notice the existence of such a picayune entry.

I've copied the file to my user article, so deletion of the article would not lose the formatted info. (John 13:35, 12 April 2007 (UTC))

I see the notability comment has reappeared, so this is where I saw the standard I thought applied:


 * Keep per Dhartung: Subject of two independent media articles = Passes WP:BIO with flying colors. -- Antepenultimate 23:52, 9 December 2006 (UTC) at this link - [].


 * The reference standard is  A person is notable if he or she has been the subject of secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject. from []

I'd argue the combination of newspapers in NY, India, Moscow, plus some specialist and mainstream magazines passes the notability criteria, but again, I wouldn't object to deletion for lack of NPOV. (John 18:41, 14 April 2007 (UTC))

NPOV

 * Can you re-write this in a NPOV, from the 3rd person? Otherwise, I'll do it. Bearian 17:34, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Be my guest, I don't see where it lacks an NPOV. (John 17:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC))
 * Try to keep to a single voice -- i.e., all active voice. Bearian 19:26, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Editing can make things flow better. Hopefully, that helped. Bearian 19:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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This article was reviewed and cleaned up by two editors in 2007-2008, and there has been no further discussion since then. The article looks neutral & encyclopedic to me. Unnecessary maintenance tags are a distraction to readers. JerryRussell (talk) 22:33, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

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