Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richtmyer Memorial Award


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Mkdw talk 20:28, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Richtmyer Memorial Award

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I'm not seeing independent coverage here. Three of the links have nothing to do with the award, while the fourth is a press release from the group that bestows the award. - Biruitorul Talk 23:47, 25 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Dear Biriutorul: the Richtmyer Award is one of the most sought after prizes within physics academia.  I am attempting to document some of the awards given to various physicists on Wiki, and several of them have won this award for their excellence in teaching.  Some of them have also won the Samuel Friedman Foundation Award, which you are also attempting to delete.  The entire idea of teaching being a "respected" career is somewhat neglected, and documenting the fact that there ARE rewards for teaching excellence, especially in the sciences, is an important point that is not often made.  I do not know if you have something against philanthropy or teaching awards, but in the United States especially, there is a long tradition of endowed Awards for Academics.  Often there is not much information from a wide variety of sources about these various Awards and Fellowships, and Wiki is a valuable source of information that will help raise awareness of issues such as the availability of awards for teaching in the sciences.  Again, if you can let me know what further types of sources you consider independent enough for you, I will try and find them.  Please bear in mind that academia in general is a fairly narrow field, and not likely to be filled with plentiful links about such matters.   Ybidzian (talk) 11:32, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I have added citations from relevant universities announcing which of their staff have been awarded the Richtmyer Memorial Award, hopefully to demonstrate that it is a well regarded and sought after Award that is valued by the physics community 15:20, 26 January 2013 (UTC) If totally necessary I suppose this might be merged with the page on Floyd K. Richtmyer. I forgot to mention that, although I still feel that his creation of the Award in 1941 stands totally separately from his physics career.  He clearly intended the Award to stand as an enduring legacy to teachers after his demise.  Ybidzian (talk) 12:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Ybidzian, no, it's nothing personal or bias-related on my side. I appreciate your thorough response and your good intentions. It's just that I don't quite see WP:GNG being met - I'm not sure that the topic "has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". But the discussion runs for a week, so let's see what other editors have to say; I may well be in the wrong. I'll let this answer stand for the Friedman article as well, and I won't be nominating other articles of yours for deletion. - Biruitorul Talk 16:05, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:01, 27 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep. Important physics award. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:19, 27 January 2013 (UTC).
 * Keep as has been awarded to many notable people, so an explanation is good to have here. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:39, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think articles such as this one (an announcement listing the confirmation of Carl Wieman to associate director in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, listing this award among other unquestionably notable honors of Wieman including the Nobel) makes it clear that its recipients and their employers see this as a high honor. And the sourcing, while a little thin, does not look out of line with what I'd expect for this sort of thing — it is only natural that the main people writing about such awards are the awarding body and the employers of the recipients. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:20, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
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