Talk:Mary Lou Zoback

Notability of subject
Does this subject meet Wikipedia's notability guideline? Subject appears to have achieved some prominence in their sub-discipline of research, especially in leading the world stress map program in the 1980s and early 1990s and being a member of the National Academies of Sciences. Article states that subject is a consulting professor of the Stanford University Geophysics Department, but the department's website shows no record of this (https://earth.stanford.edu/geophysics/people). Did subject contribute notable accomplishments that merit a Wikipedia page? Text is embellished and repetitive (see next topic), making it difficult to evaluate notability. Tensorsum (talk) 19:51, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
Article is embellished throughout and reads like an autobiography. Also repetitive. I removed some egregious cases early in the article (such as, "She has led an incredibly successful life with a long list of accomplishments and publications"). Many more remain. If subject is deemed notable (see other topic), better referencing is needed throughout. For example, is subject actually a consulting professor at Stanford University? No citation is given and subject does not appear on department's webpage. Tensorsum (talk) 19:56, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * You tagged this page as an autobiography. I see that five editors have each contributed more than 1000 bytes to the page. Which one of the editors do you believe is connected to the subject? pburka (talk) 21:54, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * @Pburka Not sure whether any of the editors are the subject of the article. I added this tag because it "reads like an autobiography." Would you recommend a different tag given the multiple editors? If this article is to be kept, I recommend rewriting to reduce apparent bias. Tensorsum (talk) 04:01, 31 August 2022 (UTC)

Propose removing all subheadings under Life and Career. They mostly repeat first part of section. Propose to consolidate any important detail into first part of section. Tensorsum (talk) 17:15, 3 September 2022 (UTC)