Talk:Philip S. Khoury

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Philip S. Khoury article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.

If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Lebanon Start‑class Low‑importance

	Lebanon portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Lebanon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Lebanon-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LebanonWikipedia:WikiProject LebanonTemplate:WikiProject LebanonLebanon articles
Start	This article has been given a rating which conflicts with the project-independent quality rating in the banner shell. Please resolve this conflict if possible.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

The following Wikipedia contributor may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of this article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view.

Khoury (talk · contribs) / Khoury, Philip S. This user has contributed to the article.

Notability

Full professors at major research universities who have published books are certainly notable. Art. just needs some refs.DGG 19:03, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not necessarily according to Wikipedia:Notability (academics). I'll give it some time for proof of notability and the references to be brought, otherwise it may have to survive an AfD. -- Avi 19:18, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Khoury has been the President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). As such (+ his books, which are used as reference at several WP articles) he is certainly notable. Regards, Huldra 17:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

add to the article...:

I would like to add to the article the following categories, but I cannot at present as the page is protected: [[Category:American Middle Eastern studies|Khoury, Philip S. ]] [[Category:Living people|Khoury, Philip S.]] [[Category:1949 births|Khoury, Philip S.]] [[Category:Arab Americans|Khoury, Philip S.]]

Regards, Huldra 17:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In general, you should put an {{editprotected}} tag on the talk page when you wish to have edits made to a protected page. It flags it for admins. The categories have been added. -- Avi 17:31, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, thank you Avi (both for your edit and the inf.) Regards, Huldra 18:05, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

PS: the Arab-American cat. seems a bit messed up?

Yup, sorry about that. It's fixed now -- Avi 18:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

fixed --Skatewalk 19:12, 29 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced & posible conflict of interest editing

User:Khoury created this article about Philip S. Khoury, and later added unsourced claims about his achievements in fundraising, maintaining academic excellence and starting new programs at his institution. Source tags were added two years ago, and Khoury was also warned about conflict of interest on User talk:Khoury. Instead of ever providing the missing sources for these claims, User:Khoury has now gone and just deleted the unsourced claim tags, with no comment explaining this action.

I have reinstalled them. They should now either get replaced by sourced information, or the claims should be removed entirely from the article, I think. Khoury has also added Philip S. Khoury to "notable alumni" lists at the articles on his high school and his university. I've left these alone for now. Most of User:Khoury's edits are about unsourced achievements of Philip S. Khoury. If User:Khoury and Philip S. Khoury are the same person, he should read and follow the Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest policy, and especially Wikipedia:Autobiography. 151.203.119.5 (talk) 17:36, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]