Talk:Thomas H. Greco Jr.

Notable?

Doesn't seem notable--he's an advocate, not an academic, and his notability appears to consist of attending and speaking at a few conferences. And yes, I am mostly raising this because his ideas seem really flaky, sure to have no following within serious economics. Before nominating this article for deletion, let me ask: should we retain this article? --Anthon.Eff (talk) 01:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Business week is announcing one of his next speaking engagements. Obviously the topic is notable enough to have a number of articles in the See Also. And he is a leading expert in the field as a couple of books and various other sources note. Since there are working alternative money systems (including multimillion dollar barter clubs which can be considered alternative money systems), these ideas are not flaky and unworkable, only crowded out by the government run system. (Which even makes some forms of workable currency, like Liberty Dollars, illegal. Just like it's illegal to compete with the post office to deliver mail.) Finally the article itself is thoroughly sourced unlike many articles that do need deletion on wikipedia. CarolMooreDC (talk) 12:53, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

The article is a puff piece, full of spin. For example, dropping out of a PhD program is presented as doing "additional course work pursuant to a Doctor of Philosophy". Sounds like most of this was taken from his blog where he claims to have held a "tenured faculty position" at Rochester--hardly likely for someone without a terminal degree. It is clear that he is not a "monetary economist". My guess is that this WP article is one of the key elements helping him to get speaking engagements. In my opinion, the article should be deleted--WP is not a tool for self-promoters.--Anthon.Eff (talk) 18:13, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

The Life and Work section will have to go, unless reliable sources can be found. And these shouldn't be self-published.--Anthon.Eff (talk) 14:16, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

First of all, I wrote the article because I thought an important personality in the alternative money movement like him could use such an article. I met him maybe 20 years ago a couple times. I'm not setting up speaking gigs for him.

Second, self-published sources are OK for information about people's own activities. If some of the info seems questionable a) one can say that he is the source and b) one can look for better sources, which may have be put up in the last year and a half since article was created. I'll look around. There certainly are a few other sources which note that he is an important individual in this movement, so it's not just him. CarolMooreDC (talk) 02:38, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

OK. Thanks. In your hands now.--Anthon.Eff (talk) 02:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Fyi Just looking at it now, I can see that back then I didn't always properly reference things - just using links instead - and will fix that. CarolMooreDC (talk) 03:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC)