Talk:Owen Astrachan

Notability?
Huh? What's this guy done that's gotten written about? i kan reed (talk) 18:03, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Astrachan's teaching
I removed the section on his teaching because the source did not support the material. , now that you have added some of it back, I will give you a chance to find a source that supports what that sentence says. His web page does not say that he regularly teaches three courses; it lists twelve courses. It says nothing about his method of teaching. I understand that you would like to say something about his teaching, but unless there is a published source that says what you want to say, you must leave it out. The article includes a link to his faculty page, which does list his courses. He is an expert in the teaching of computer science, how to teach it and how not to teach it. I suggest reading some of his papers and adding material sourced to that instead. Just adding what you know is not proper for an encyclopedia article. StarryGrandma (talk) 01:29, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Selected publications
A "Selected publications" section is standard in articles about professors, and I have added back the one I added earlier. They do not need some independent publication to show that these are the most important - they don't need to be the most important in fact. I usually add the most cited, but also enough to illustrate a researcher's development. They only need to be written by the person and in that sense they are self-citing. StarryGrandma (talk) 06:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Disagree. "The most cited"--I don't see where that is verified either. Listing professors' articles is not standard procedure, and in many of the sciences it would be a ridiculous proposition. This is not LinkedIn and we don't publish resumes. Listing books makes sense: presumably books by academics of some standing received reviews, which is precisely how the NPROF bar can be proven. This article, BTW, doesn't cite one single secondary source--it cites the subject's own articles, a number of press releases, a few primary web pages, and the subject's CV. Drmies (talk) 12:10, 9 April 2024 (UTC)