User talk:Swannbridge

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Stefan Ralescu
I suggested that the article on Stefan Ralescu be deleted, since he does not appear to be especially notable, see Notability. I would suggest that you add more material to that article to really make the case that Stefan Ralescu a famous enough mathematician (not just a professor with a few good publications) that he deserves an article. Otherwise, the article will get deleted.

You can reply here (under this text) if you have comments. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

what to do about it
Not being the author, I have removed the deletion tag, which stops the process for the moment.

He  seems a worthy subject for an article, but if you would like the article to remain you must write it with more details.
 * saying in the first sentence something to demonstrate notability, like "A.b. is professor of X at, winner of the XYZ prize..." (whatever applies). Use the exact word: "notable" or "internationally-known" or "nationally-known"; do not use "famous" -- May sound silly, but that is what people look for here.
 * listing college degrees with university and year -- and putting the university names in double brackets
 * listing important awards
 * listing important memberships and offices held
 * listing books published as formal references style: Author, title, Publisher, year ISBN if possible.
 * listing some major published papers, say how many total. State the importance the journals are. Say how many other papers cited them.

and, most important, giving some 3rd party sources. A website at a university etc. can be one, but it cannot be the only one. Book reviews are fine, or a newspaper stories. Print or web is OK, but not from a list or a blog. These is, very  unfortunately, prejudice against people from the academic world.

There is serious prejudice here against articles written by the subject or a member of his family, so it has to be a really solid article. See WP:AUTO and WP:COI

If you do not do this immediately, the article will probably be deleted in a day or two--though not by me. If this happens, just recreate it, but take you time--maybe in a week after careful preparation I apologize for not having the time to help  personally. DGG 21:37, 11 February 2007 (UTC)