Talk:Matthew T. Dickerson

Query inclusion and notability
With all due respect to this person's multifaceted interests, I don't quite understand how it made DYK - let alone wikipedia in the first place. Most people do several things in their life, this person's are no more notable than probably 20% of the population of the planet, we don't need a billion biographical articles, so could anyone enlighten me as to how this article meets notability guidelines in any of the pursuits mentioned? Existence does not equal notability, and this article looks to me a little like a myspace page for academics - the ISBNs all over the place don't establish notability of any of the components. Also, the fact that the sole author of the article is also a computation geometrist who also has an equally (arguably) unnotable wikipedia article raises for me a query about conflict of interest, but if everyone's fine with that and this is what wikipedia has become while I haven't been looking then I'd better go find someone for whom I can write a wikipedia article about me in exchange for them doing one about me, or my band, or something. Thanks. SeventhHell (talk) 00:54, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Inclusion in Wikipedia and DYK are two separate things. For DYK one only needs a verifiable article that's not too stubby with a sufficiently interesting hook. As for why he merits an article at all, I think the strongest case is through WP:AUTH: he has written multiple books several of which have been the subject of multiple independent periodical reviews and one of which was shortlisted for an important award in its subject area. That evaluation, that it's his book writing that he's notable for, is also borne out by looking at "what links here" for this article: what links here is not so much computational geometry articles, but articles concerning Tolkien's books. For the purposes of deciding whether he merits inclusion, it should be irrelevant that he's also done other less-notable things. It's true that some of his computational geometry work is with me, but not the work I cited in the article; it's not a conflict of interest to work in the same field and have similar interests. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:03, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Great! Thanks for your reply - very well, and with apologies for any inconvenience - I am learning! :) SeventhHell (talk) 01:33, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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