Talk:Raymond Arritt

Math
Unfortunately, the ref for the hook fact is offline. When 2000 people share something, I'd arrive at .05%. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:43, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I found it online and added it: . Maybe agronomists aren't known for their math skills. :) Softlavender (talk) 01:13, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The year the IPCC won, they split it with Al Gore--he got 50%, they got 50%: . So it's closer to .0025%, just rounding down.Sarritt (talk) 04:40, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * And of course he was saying the "0.002 percent" thing totally informally so he clearly didn't really care if he got the math exactly right, as evidenced by him preceding it with the word "like". IntoThinAir (talk) 14:38, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, for explaining and adding an online ref. How about a footnote with the explanation, - but perhaps I'm the only one. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 1 December 2018 (UTC)


 * The thing is, even so-called "rounded off" it's wrong -- it should be .025% (or .02% if he left off the 5). I don't know if Raymond spaced out and forgot that a percent of a decimal changes the decimal placement, or whether the newspaper misquoted him, or whether he was just being sort of silly. Softlavender (talk) 22:40, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia
Not the world's greatest source, but it is a source, if someone wants to briefly add that he was a Wikipedian:. I'm not usually in favor of doing that except for people who are publicly notable for being Wikipedians, but I saw it mentioned above, so I did a Google search. Softlavender (talk) 02:30, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
 * You know whose website that is?  :)   ——  SerialNumber  54129  12:58, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, did not know that .... Softlavender (talk) 22:36, 9 December 2018 (UTC)

Notability
I hate to say this but I am unable to see about his passing NACADEMIC. I do neither feel that being a co-author of IPCC report makes the cut. Views are welcome:-) &#x222F; WBG converse 13:32, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * If you hate to say this, why do you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:38, 3 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Notability is somewhat borderline, but I can assure you that if this went to AfD the result would be "keep", as it was with Articles for deletion/Chris Sherwin. As said to me when I email queried him about that particular article in its early stages, "Borderline by our normal standards. Considering the great respect he had on WP, it would in my opinion not be reasonable to try and delete it. I would even be prepared to defend it using IAR if necessary, but it will not be necessary.  We're human, and our feelings matter." Softlavender (talk) 22:48, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks like a likely keep on WP:PROF grounds to me even without connection to Wikipedia or Nobel. Google Scholar is showing 21 publications with over 100 citations each and an h-index of 41, easily enough. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:14, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note that his Google Scholar profile is here. IntoThinAir (talk) 22:34, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Hook wording
OK, I'm thinking somewhere on the order of:


 * Researcher Raymond Arritt (pictured) was one of three Iowa State University contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore?

-- Softlavender (talk) 00:28, 10 December 2018 (UTC)