User:Mr. Pincus F.

Frank Alcock

Hello,

I am thinking of recommending the page Frank Alcock, which you created, for deletion, as it appears to be a vanity page. But I wanted to notify you first and get a reaction. Still A Student 14:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Please don't. Check Jstor and ProjectMUSE to access the publications of those political scientists. The information in those articles meets Wikipedias standards of verifibility. Please do not destroy the information there. Mr. Pincus F. 18:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

These sources meet the standards for verifiability, but perhaps not for notability. I have no doubt that Alcock and the other New College of Florida politicial scientists are who the pages say are. I'm just not sure they are notable. See for instance Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies/Academics, WP:BIO and Wikipedia: Deletion Policy. I'm not trying to start a fight. But I've been working with others to get the list of political scientists to conform to these criteria.Still A Student 23:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

You can go ahead and remove them from the list of notable political scientists if you insist. We can go ahead and agree to disagree on that matter. (I certainly disagree with regard to Lewis, who is one of the main theorists who developed the concept of political entreprenuership. On the other two.) Deleting the articles is inappropriate. Notablity is not the major criterion for the inclusion of articles. On Wikipedia articles tend to be kept so long as the author has published in a well-known jorunal or with a well-known publisher. Mr. Pincus F. 06:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Notability is the criterion, as spelled out here, Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies/Academics, among other places. Having published in a "well-known" journal would apply to pretty much every academic. (Of the 19 people who have articles in the current issue of the APSR, none have wikipedia bios.) But I'm not in any position to unilaterally delete anything. It would be for the Wikipedia community to decide. It sounds like a case might be made for Lewis, but not the others.Still A Student 13:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)