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December 2014
Hello Smurray1120, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Scott K. Silverman has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Meters (talk) 06:14, 8 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I've also removed verbatim copies of bios from two other articles you created. Please stop doing this. Meters (talk) 06:19, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
 * And from a fourth article you created. Meters (talk) 06:24, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Martin D. Burke


A tag has been placed on Martin D. Burke requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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 * also notable: highest citation count over 900. I've asked for restoration & it;; has been restored,. I'll rewrite as needed.   DGG ( talk ) 19:45, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

December 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but you removed a speedy deletion tag from a page you have created yourself. If you believe the page should not be deleted, you may contest the deletion by clicking on the button that says: Contest this speedy deletion and appears inside the speedy deletion notice. This will allow you to make your case on the article's talk page. Administrators will consider your reasoning before deciding what to do with the page. Thank you. MadGuy7023 (talk) 22:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Jefferson Chan


The article Jefferson Chan has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable academic. No claim of notability. LOTS of similarly named people in google scholar, so it's hard to tell notability using the usual means.

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 * Assistant Professor. checking further.  DGG ( talk ) 19:47, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Ryan C. Bailey


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 * Non-notable academic. No claim of notability. No independent refs.

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 * deprodded. Probable notability thru citations, tho still an Associate professor.  DGG ( talk ) 19:26, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Scott E. Denmark


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 * Non-notable academic. No claim of notability. No independent refs.

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 * deprodded. Named chair.  DGG ( talk ) 19:18, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Zaida Luthey-Schulten


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 * Non-notable academic. No claim of notability. No independent refs.

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 * deprodded. Named chair.  DGG ( talk ) 19:20, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chad M. Rienstra


The article Chad M. Rienstra has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable academic. No claim of notability. No independent refs.

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 * deprodded. Citations show notability -- top paper has over 1700 citations.  DGG ( talk ) 19:17, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Scott K. Silverman


The article Scott K. Silverman has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable academic. No claim of notability. No independent refs.

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 * I removed the prod; notable as shown by very high citations. Needs expansion.  DGG ( talk ) 19:10, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

where the problem is
Most of the people you have been adding are clearly notable, although the material in the article as you wrote it is so sketchy as to give no clear information why they are. I have been checking in each case, and adding the minimum information to support stub article which can then be expanded. For our criteria, see WP:PROF. The simplest ones to meet are holding a named professorship, being editor in chief of a major journal,receiving a national level prize, being president of a significant national society, or being the elected Fellow of a really major society like the National Academy of Sciences or the IEEE. Demonstrating any of these is enough to support a stub, Otherwise, it rests on their being an authority in the subject. This is normally shown by their citation record. GS is an adequate source. The necessary standard varies from field to field, but in most areas of chemistry anyone publishing multiple papers with over 100 citations each is clearly notable.

As an example of the problem, for Scott E. Denmark you said merely "joined the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor." Assistant professors are very rarely notable, but a quick look at his official bio shows he may have joined at that low rank, but is now the holder of a distinguished chair. I added that and removed the prod.

Writing articles as sketchy as you have been doing, especially when they are written by copying directly the official bio, does not help the encyclopedia. We're not a mere directory, and people looking here expect to find some actual information. I think that very probably all the full professors in any department of U Ill. are notable--certainly none of them has ever been deleted in an AfD discussion here, but it has to be shown in each case.  DGG ( talk ) 19:10, 29 December 2014 (UTC)