Talk:Richard T. Snodgrass

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Notability

It is not evident that this article meets WP:ACADEMIC. Blue Rasberry 17:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm inclined to disagree. According to Google Scholar, his publications on temporal databases are referenced quite extensively. Favonian (talk) 20:31, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The only citation seems to be in books he has writen (I.e. he is listed as either editor or author). This in fact seems to be a list of his work, not works that cite him.Slatersteven (talk) 19:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you referring to the output from Google Scholar? Sure, that's a search for his name, so it returns his publications, but if you for instance click on the reference count for his book The TSQL2 temporal query language, you get this list of 586 other publications referencing the book. Favonian (talk) 20:10, 27 April 2010 (UTC)##][reply]

I was looking at the books in your first link. By the way at least one of the 'referances' in your new link is by Prof Snodgrass.Slatersteven (talk) 21:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just added g- and h-index that indicates research productivity; it is *very* high. (h-index of 45 and a g-index of about 87) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vk2010 (talk • contribs) 21:13, April 26, 2010 (UTC)

Sources

Notability here is not the problem as much as the fact that right now, all the "sources" listed (except one, the ACM fellowship) are either the guy's personal webpage or articles in which he was an author. That is not proper citing of independent reliable sources, thus in its current state, the article does not properly establish the notability of the subject according to Wikipedia guidelines (again, ACM fellowship by itself is not that strong evidence, as most readers will not know how hard it is to be a fellow in that association).--137.122.49.102 (talk) 15:13, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, someone added some sources, but they all boil down to the Association for Computing Machinery. Has the guy not been mentioned/recognized by anyone else? Hasn't his research been noticed elsewhere? It would be good to have more than a single source.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 21:03, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ACM is the most prestigious organization for computer science. He has an h-index of >45 (Criterion #1), he is an ACM Fellow (Criterion #3) and has been editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (Criterion #8). I suspect that relatively few people in Computer Science would be more notable than him. Here is a list of most notable Computer Scientists: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/h-number.html