User talk:Mike barrie

re Diane Massam
Our notability criteria for academics is at WP:PROF, and Massam appears not to meet them. Specializing in an obscure field is not proof of notability (quite the opposite in fact, generally) nor is being a top person in a field if the field is small. If she does meet our notability standards, you are welcome to recreate the article with verifiable citations and material showing why Massam is a truly notable person. Don't be discouraged; we all have had articles deleted, especially when first starting out. It takes a while to get used to all this. Hope to see you around, cheers, Herostratus 03:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of Professor Diane Massam
A page on Diane Massam was deleted and I would like to suggest to have it re-instated. I have read through the lengthy discussion regarding notability and academics and feel that this person does meet notability requirements. Regarding the requirements on the following page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29

Massam answers affirmatively to the first two criteria as she is often invited internationally to give guest talks in her field (Austronesian Syntax). She has also been invited as a guest professor at Harvard to teach in her field of expertise. Regarding the third criterion, her work on pseudo noun incorporation (admittedly rather obscure) is virtually a required citation for anyone who works in this area or any closely related area. The fourth criterion is represented weakly by Massam; however, she her work is frequently the discussion of other scholars in her field. Her proposal for pseudo noun incorporation was a novel approach to a difficult problem and has since served as a spring board for other researchers in related fields, which, I believe, meets the 5th criterion. Regarding the 6th criterion, Massam has been awarded Full Professorship at her home institution, a honour which is conferred upon a small number of tenured faculty.

Let me briefly mention why I authored this article in the first place. I came across the following site:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguists

I noticed that many people listed here did not have pages, so I thought it was up to someone who has access to the relevant resources to make pages for people on this list for whom they felt they were qualified to do so. If this was an unwise assumption for me to make, then I apologize.User:Mike Barrie 21:14, November 19, 2006 (UTC).
 * I've restored the article and moved it to User:Mike barrie/Diane Massam. You should add some of the information you gave above and anything else you can to show that she meets WP:N.


 * BTW, your signature shows User:Mike Barrie but your actual username is User:Mike barrie (with a lower-case b). You should probably fix that so people don't start sending messages to User talk:Mike Barrie.  —Wknight94 (talk) 21:29, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Elizabeth Cowper
Another editor has added the "prod" template to the article Elizabeth Cowper, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the editor doesn't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and has explained why in the article (see also What Wikipedia is not and Notability). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia or discuss the relevant issues at its talk page. If you remove the prod template, the article will not be deleted, but note that it may still be sent to Articles for deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. --Eastmain 17:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Notability
Is it possible to find some more sources of information on this topic Elizabeth Cowper? It is tagged with a notability tag, and there are currently 31 articles in the scope of wikiproject Canada which are tagged with notability concerns, so I am contacting all the article creation editors to see if the quantity of notable articles can be reduced, and quality increased. For more help see this note. Kind Regards SriMesh | talk  18:03, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Canadian Linguistics Association
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Lampingtons disease
I have added a "" template to the article Lampingtons disease, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. Natural number is e 02:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Gay chicken
I have added a "" template to the article Gay chicken, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but I don't believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. AJR | Talk 00:30, 19 May 2007 (UTC)