Talk:Sharon Inkelas

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This article about Sharon Inkelas is important and should not be deleted because she is a well-known linguist in our day and age, such as Paul Kiparsky, Robin Lakoff, Mark Liberman, and Bruce Hayes. She has contributed many important works to the field of morphophonology and is seen as one of the main proponents of cophonology theory. This page should NOT be deleted because it is a biographical piece on an important linguist today. If one deletes this page, than the pages of all others mentioned above should also be deleted as well. Expectfailure 14:21, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I've removed the speedy deletion notice, but have taken it to Articles for deletion for a deletion discussion. -- Samir 16:39, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The list of courses is unnecessary and not of general interest, and has been removed; the list of doctoral students supervised has also been summarized--its not usual to include it here. The publications and the status seem enough for notability. DGG 04:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia's policies on who counts as "important" are to say the least inconsistently applied. There are many linguists who are at least as important as Inkelas whose Wikipedia pages have been deleted as "unimportant people". The fact that few pages link to this particular page might be taken as an indication. I assume the main reason this page is here is the Stanford/Berkeley mutual admiration society. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.150.203 (talk) 23:23, 16 October 2009 (UTC)