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Alfred Hubler
Hi Richard, you normally don't de-orphane a new biographical article by putting it in the main template of the field like you did with Alfred Hubler in the Template:Systems science. These templates are always restricted to a small selection of the most prominent scientists in the field. -- Mdd (talk) 20:23, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the feedback. Bear with me, I'm new at this. I am a bit confused, though. Just how prominent does a researcher have to be to make this list and who gets to decide? Prof. Hubler is the director of the Complex Systems Research Center at the University of Illinois, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Insititute and the executive editor of the journal Complexity. He has chaired/co-chaired eight Complex Systems symposia and is well-published in the field over a number of years. In my humble opinion, he deserves to be listed as a Systems Scientist. Richardjb25 (talk) 20:53, 30 March 2011 (UTC) richardjb25
 * There are over a 1000 articles about systems scientist and the template only mentions a few. I would focus on the article at hand. At the moment it is hardly more than a curriculum vitae. Try to describe his work and contributions, in the article and other directly related articles. -- Mdd (talk) 22:41, 30 March 2011 (UTC)