Talk:Ravindra Nanda

Nobility

As the question raised by Respect reviewer that, The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for academics. I would like to provide the details to respected reviewer for the same. Wikipedia:Notability (academics) criteria No. 5 says this point( 5. The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research). Dr. Nanda is first Indian origin Professor who have received and reached upto such a high level in the one of the largest and best universities in America (UCONN). So with due respect I think this page should be consider under the academics only. This page also motivates lots of indian student who consider Dr. Nanda as a Role model in their life as i am considering Him. I also want to say that I am in no way connected to Dr. Nanda except emails as reviewer had raised the point( A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject). I am modifying this page so that all indians should be feel proud and must know about Dr. Nanda and will inspired by him and his work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MathurAjay (talk • contribs) 02:13, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your answers. Please do NOT remove maintenance tags until other editors had a chance of expressing their views. Unsubstantiated removal of maintenance tags can constitute vandalism.

As to your objections:

• Please note the difference between a chair and a named chair. Although Ravindra Nanda is a chair of a university department, there is nothing in the article that suggests that Ravindra Nanda is a named chair and the tag is fully justified in view of the information contained in the article.
• You mentioned no sources of your information except for a LinkedIn profile page and a staff profile on the University of Connecticut website. All your other "references" are in fact links to the home pages of some institutions. They do not contain any information on Ravindra Nanda and all these links should normally be removed.
• You seem to have a very close connection with the article's subject as you mentioned you receive email correspondence from the person. This may pose a risk of a conflict of interests and thus the respective tag has been put in place. Please do not remove it until a neutral editor carries out substantial copyedit or review.
• Finally, the purpose of Wikipedia is not "publishing motivational pages for students". See WP:NOT.

Please do not remove these tags until the issues have been resolved by yourself or another editor. You have already removed tags twice - if you continue in this style I will have no choice but to take this up with Wikipedia administrators. kashmiri 18:34, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Dear Kashmiri

Thank you for your suggestions and guidance for the article. I will try to add some more references regarding the tags. I also wants to something about Dr.Nanda and try to provide some more details one by one:

Regarding notability guideline for academics.

point 1: The person is or has been the head or chief editor of a major well-established academic journal in their subject area. Dr. Nanda was cheif editor of Journal of Clinical orthodontics(JCO) one of the oldest journal and at present he is on the editorial board of 9 most reputed journals in the world including American journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthpedics(AJODO).

Point 2: The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution of higher education and research (or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon). Dr.Nanda holds the hieghest position in a department and he is also a Endowed Chair of Department of Cranifacial Sciences. He had also published more than 150 publications and all of them are in the most reputed journals with an impact factor of more than 1.2. He also had more than 10 US patents in his name, for eg. connecticut intrusion arches, special brackets, Acceldent etc.

Point 3: The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level. Dr. Nanda had received life time acheviment award (selected from all over the world) at 49th IOC conference.

Point 4:The person is or has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society) or a Fellow of a major scholarly society for which that is a highly selective honor (e.g., the IEEE). Dr. Nanda was Pas president of Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists. He is also a fellow of the biggest organization of orthodontics called World federation of Orthodontics.He is also the founding member of University of connecticut health center,school of dental medicine. (University of connecticut is one of the most reputed and in the first top 10 universities of United states).

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Dear kasmiri I had added the references for the points which i have added and all of them are working. Still i will try to add some more references.

A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject.

I already clarified that i dont have a close connection with Dr. Nanda, I am a very small person in front of Him. I requested him some photographs of his for my department and he sent me 8-9 photographs of his. Then after attended his key note lecture at APOC at new delhi, i searched for his details on internet and found his wiki page. then i realized that it doesn't have complete information regarding Dr. Nanda. After that i have start editing it. I also want to tell you that i have done small changes but my name is appearing many times because I am new and have less knowledge of editing the page. Although AMIRD81 had contributed most to that page not me. I wish now I made my point and its your decision to accept it or not.

the purpose of Wikipedia is not "publishing motivational pages for students". I can understand that purpose of wiki is not to motivate students but at least we can provide some information regarding a great doctor who started from nothing and today who is a very renown person with great respect among more than 3 million doctors world wide.

Dear [kashmiri]

I just trying to modify this page so that the right information can reach peoples through out the world. I had invested lots of time to support wiki. I wish, I made my self very clear. Still if you have any suggestions, please guide me. Thanks again for your support.

Best Regards

Dr. AJAY MATHUR — Preceding unsigned comment added by MathurAjay (talk • contribs) 07:03, 3 January 2013 (UTC)