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List of awards and honors received by Gordon Rausser

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Attempt to bypass draft space with promotional overcoverage. It was previously contributed, and I moved it to draft as Draft:List of awards and honors received by Gordon Rausser with the comment "Overextensive list. The major awards belong in the article on him/. The minor ones don't belong in WP at all. The ones from his own university don't belong in WP at all This seems to be a promotional attempt to give the same overextended treatment we give performers." Perhaps I should just have merged back the ones worth merging and redirected in the first place. DGG ( talk ) 22:34, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:43, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Promotional, WP:UNDUE list of largely non-notable awards. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 23:14, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If DDG's only contention that Gordon Rausser's awards are considered promotional and over coverage solely for the reason the recipient works there, this is completely invalid and should not prompt deletion of the page for the following reason:

1. The Citation Award, Builders of Berkeley, and Fellowship awards are not given simply because of an UC Berkeley affiliation, but given to less than five individuals at a given year who have distinguished themselves through their work and experience. It is unclear why DDG believes the "ones from his own university don't belong in WP." This seems to imply Gordon Rausser owns UC Berkeley, when in fact, he is a professor there. If DDG can clarify this with more than a condescending statement, it would be more constructive to provide evidence. Over the course of history, there are thousands of faculty members and supporters of UC Berkeley. Only 100 of these people are named Berkeley Fellows. With respect to the Citation Award, this is given to one person per year for which everyone who is ever been associated with the CNR either as a student, faculty, alumni, or friend, can be selected. The selection committee is totally blind and does not take any favors. The Career Achievement Award is for one faculty or graduate student member for scientific contributions. The selection committee is also totally blind and does not take any favors.

2. DDG does not understand the prestige of receiving this award simply because DDG does not understand the honor process in academia. In other words, DDG does not have any expertise nor the competency to determine which awards are minor. It is worth noting that DDG has attended UC Berkeley and should understand how major these awards are. There might be a conflict of interest due to DDG's affiliation with UC Berkeley's CNR, whether he has a negative intention towards Rausser and CNR. If DDG can pinpoint which awards he considers "minor awards," I will be more than happy to explain why it is not. Furthermore, this is an insult to the UC Berkeley institution as well as to Gordon Rausser. In the future, DDG should provide reasoning and evidence before making such outlandish statements and a request for the deletion of a Wikipedia page with all the necessary sources and citations.

Choielliotjwa (talk) 00:40, 8 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]