Talk:Greg Turk

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Why does this guy have a wikipedia entry? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.231.191.138 (talk) 19:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'd never heard of him (no reason I would). But, technical papers chairman at SIGGRAPH '08. You have no clue of the impact of that. My interest is AI, not graphics, but SIGGRAPH is perhaps the most influential of all the ACM SIGs. We're talking about the jewel on top of the diadem on top of Computer Science. Pete St.John (talk) 21:19, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see that this has been flagged regarding notability; has the person who took this action perused the earlier discussion about notability?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Greg_Turk

Scooge (talk) 17:52, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The guy may be notable, but the article does little to assert that. The lead just says he's an assistant professor and that he digitized a sculture long ago. Whatever he's notable for should be made clear. Will Beback talk 19:29, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, he's famous for his research, and it says "research." Also, he introduced the Stanford Bunny, which is still used. I know that this might not mean much to people who don't get the research side of CGI--at least outside of the private companies that create the really splashy effects used in motion pictures. What would you recommend to enhance accessibility?Scooge (talk) 19:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If I understand correctly, he didn't digitize the bunny singlehandedly, and people don't call it the "Turk Bunny". In any case, it's just one of many standard images, and it's own notability appears minor. According to the AFD discussion, Turk's chief notability appears to be that he was (once?) the technical papers chair for SIGGRAPH. If that's his claim to fame then it should be placed prominently, in the first sentence. Right now the biography does not make him appear more notable than any other assistant professor. He might in fact be notable, but the reader shouldn't have to search for it. Will Beback talk 21:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, he DID perform the original scans, although he was working in a lab at the time so there is one other name on the paper--but IIRC Dr. Turk's name is first; the bunny was his idea. Also, as I understand it it's customary to give these object place-names, rather than people-names. (cf. the Utah Teapot). But I'll re-work the first graph.Scooge (talk) 22:35, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

While the bunny may have achieved importance as a test image, the article on it does little to indicate that it is so important that even the people who created are notable for that mere fact. We hav a whole category devoted to test images, and I doubt that every creator is deemed notable. Anyway, I'm not saying that the guy isn't notable, just that this article doesn't explain his notability. Will Beback talk 22:54, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for making those significant improvements to the article. Will Beback talk 06:36, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Okey-doke. Any time.Scooge (talk) 06:59, 30 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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