Talk:H. Jay Melosh

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The speedy deletion of this article is not appropriate because:

1. It is clearly stated that the following are acceptable persons for biography publishing: "published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more". Dr. Melosh's book has been republished twice and he has more than 150 articles in renowned journals.

2. There are already pages on Wikipedia which link here.

3. Dr. Melosh is an important figure in geophysics today, as a simple Google search would show everyone interested.

Did you check "the professor test" at WP:BLP?, Also is his book a standard text in a decent number of university courses, and if so can you prvide verifiable evidence of that? I'm not unsympathetic to the idea he might pass WP:BLP, but evidence is iportant. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C]

AfD? 12:42, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Notable enough for the National Academy of Sciences. Notable enough for Discover to want to interview him. So nonnotable by your standards that you'd can his article without even bothering to have a debate. James James 13:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Allow me to quote:

"Jay Melosh literally wrote the book on impact cratering," said Michael Drake, head of the LPL and UA planetary sciences department. "His 1989 book made us all aware of the importance of extraterrestrial impacts in shaping our Earth. The book ("Impact Cratering: A Geologic Process," Oxford University Press) is still the universal reference used by all scholars."

This is not an AfD debate, remember, JzG. This is some guy slapping a speedy tag on an article -- to have it deleted without debate. I'm just going to take the tag off. If you want to AfD it, please do so but there's no way this is a speedy. James James 13:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

JzG, I cannot find any reference to the "professor test" you mentioned, and I think measuring a scientist by how many univ. courses use his book borders with complete nonsense. The book in question is not written to be a textbook (see citations above). Anyway, just because I made an effort to look for courses using it as a reference here is a list (you can always look them up in some search engine):

3C11 - Planetary Geology: APL@University College London

Seminars at Geodynamics Program @ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

EPS 200 Problems in Hydrogeology @Berkeley

various courses @ Auburn University Geology Department

UMR 6594 CNRS/Universités d'Aix-Marseille

Ge 151a: Fundamentals of Planetary Surfaces @ Caltech

ASTR 5830 @ University of Colorado at Boulder

B277: Geology of Planetary Bodies @ School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck College, London Lejean2000

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