Talk:Wei Biao Wu

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Russ Woodroofe in topic Notability

Notability

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Comments: It seems to me that Wu is notable under WP:NACADEMIC #1. As I mention in the article, his top-cited work appears in Proc Natl Acad and has over 350 citations. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a Google Scholar profile, but a GS search shows that his top 10 cited papers all have over 100 citations. He also doesn't have a cv posted online, so I resorted to LinkedIn for basic vita information (only). I'll disclose here that I have a COI with Wu's advisor, but I don't see any conflict with Wu. Several colleagues of the advisor identified Wu as notable, and after looking at his citation record, I agreed. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 08:42, 24 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

I have since met Wu, and consider it likely that I now have a mild COI. I've added a picture per WP:COIU, and have no intention to make further edits at this time. I'll make a more formal disclosure if any established editor requests. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 06:41, 3 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Sources

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I want to collect here some sources that don't seem to yet merit inclusion in the article. Several were found by User:Vycl1994 (see the revision history), who deserves the credit.

  • The TC Koopmans award is a non-trivial award, but probably not of sufficient interest for wikipedia. Otherwise suitable for inclusion in an article is the following bullet point:
  • Wu received Multiscripta award is given for publishing repeatedly in Econometric Theory, but this is less notable than the TC Koopmans. A reference is at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27975471.
  • A Chinese source for Wu's undergrad education is at http://bbs.netbig.com/thread-2520267-1-1.html. (But it appears to be unofficial, and not necessarily more reliable than the linkedin record.)

Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:09, 23 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

I realize that the Chinese source may not be reliable. It claims to be a list of Fudan alumni, and says that Wu graduated with an undergraduate degree in mathematics in 1997, before stating that he completed a doctorate at the University of Michigan in 2001. I'll note that Wu himself did not directly state that he graduated from Fudan in the published 2006 interview,[3] either. The time period matches up with Wu's LinkedIn profile, and that remains the best and most detailed source. LinkedIn is a primary source, but it fulfills WP:SPS. I simply tried (and failed) to look up his Chinese name so I could locate sources in that language. Vycl1994 (talk) 00:49, 24 October 2019 (UTC) Addendum from my talk page. edited 04:29, 24 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ "Past Tjalling C. Koopmans prizes". Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  2. ^ "Statistician emerges from numerical vortex with econometrics prize". EurekAlert!. July 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  3. ^ "University of Chicago professor rejected for Chinese passport renewal because he practices Falun Gong". Minghui.org. 20 December 2006. Archived from the original on 21 December 2006. Retrieved 15 October 2019.