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Latest comment: 17 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Despite the assumptions to the contrary, I nominated this article for deletion in good faith. There are still not enough sources in this article. I would as that those of you who so strongly insisted that the subject of this article is notable, that you would go ahead and fix this article by properly sourcing it, instead of taking the time only to accuse me of acting in bad faith and then letting this article sit with virtually no third-party references (which, like it or not, means it fails WP:N). --Cheeser121:11, 28 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
Since no one has commented or added to the article, I've gone ahead and tagged it as needing more sources for verification of, among other things, the notability of this person. Even the guideline on notability of academics states: It is possible for an academic to be notable according to this standard, and yet not be an appropriate topic for coverage in Wikipedia because of a lack of reliable, independent sources on the subject. Every topic on Wikipedia must be one for which sources exist; see Wikipedia:Verifiability. --Cheeser117:49, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
Obviously, but those sources are supposed to be cited or listed, not just alluded to in some "but they exist" argument. I insist on these improvements because they are required, but more importantly, because they improve the article (or, if they cannot be made, allow us to delete articles that should not exist). I'm glad my actions spurred improvements in this article, even if I took a bit of a slandering in the process. --Cheeser120:09, 29 October 2007 (UTC)Reply
