User talk:Shaww

AfD nomination of William Shaw (mathematician)
I have nominated William Shaw (mathematician), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Articles for deletion/William Shaw (mathematician). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:35, 4 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Basically this means your article failed the google test. Nerdy math professors  who write specialized books on remote areas of math that the vast majority of human beings have not heard of seldom have high google presences.  Also, as the article is about a living person the standards are a bit higher for citations to the information in the article, although this is more important with negative information.  Most of the information in the article can be sourced to the academic sites, but this may not satisfy notability, which will, once more, fail the holy grail of Wikipedia standards: if it already has a presence on the web (googled!) it is good enough for us to write about.  However, Wikipedia seldom steps outside of the cyber bounds into current publications available in academic libraries, making asserting the notability of professors of applied mathematics difficult.  If it gets deleted, I will simply ask it to be transferred to one of my user pages and get around to referencing it as time permits.  --KP Botany (talk) 18:26, 7 February 2009 (UTC)