Talk:Stanley E. Trauth

Article issues
The article contains lots of fluff and inflated claims, so much so that it is impossible to see whether this person actually is notable. Instead of concentrating on his academic "genealogy", which does not contribute anything to notability, it would be better to concentrate on finding reliable sources about real accomplishments of this person. --Randykitty (talk) 21:43, 9 February 2015 (UTC)


 * If someone's name appears in a list of "notable XXX" produced by the leading expert on XX, then I would suggest taht when I cite taht list, taht it is actually an opinoin of merit.  Academci genealogy IS something that contributes to merity.  It is how a person ends up who they are.  This is standard practice to identify an academic.  Sorry you have not been informed of this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Herpetology2 (talk • contribs) 00:14, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * No, genealogy is perhaps important for royalty, but not for academics and it does not add anything to notability. Please see WP:NOTINHERITED, WP:ANYBIO, WP:GNG, and WP:ACADEMIC. Adding stuff like "John Doe did his PhD with Important Scientist, who did his PhD with Big Scientist who won the Important Award" is just name dropping. "Important Scientist" is clearly relevant as the direct thesis supervisor. "Big Scientist" and "Important Award" just give the impression that this has anything to do with "John Doe", but it hasn't, of course. --Randykitty (talk) 08:45, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Edit reverts
I note that all edits I did yesterday have been reverted wholesale. This includes standard edits to make the article WP:MOS compliant, re-addition of peacock terms, incorrect capitalization of names, trivial stuff (like OR about numbers of publications), use of unreliable sources such as IMDb and WP, etc, etc. There are also several inappropriate in-text external links. The category "American zoologists" was added again, even though "American herpetologists" is a subcat of that one, so it isn't needed. Several references fail verification. For example, Mehaka's GS profile does not mention Trauth. I note that Trauth's own GS profile (see here) is not mentioned in the article and is not indicative of much notability. This was the last, relatively clean version of the article. --Randykitty (talk) 08:58, 10 February 2015 (UTC)