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I have updated this page. Be gentle! I as new at this! The information included on the page is publically available. The page previously was out of date. Do you really want me to link to e.g. the page listing my Troland Award at National Academy of Science? http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/troland-research-awards.html ? Can do!

Could I follow the format of "J. Anthony Movshon" as a model? And who might update the text? New York University (staff) created the original page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltmaloneynyu (talk • contribs) 17:25, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All requests to add information to the article should be placed here on the talk page. The article itself should not be edited by you. I have placed some search suggestions at the top of this post to assist you in the search for more reliable sources to propose here on the talk page.  Spintendo  19:39, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Note - Draft:Laurence T. Maloney - I left a note for the user to requested edits here on the talk page and not through AfC. Draft was declined. --CNMall41 (talk) 00:21, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
With regards to the J. Anthony Movshon page the COI editor was asking about, as a model there are good and bad things in that article which both should and shouldn't be emulated.
  • Good:
  1. The awards that the article mentions are only awards which have links to existing Wikipedia pages. The article does not mention any awards which are not already noteable themselves in Wikipedia.
  • Not Good:
  1. The article contains almost no secondary sources which are unconnected to the subject.
  2. None of the journal articles contain DOI's. Actually a couple of them do, but not all of them.
  3. The subject's BA is listed when undergraduate degrees are typically omitted in BLP articles.
  4. Several claims are uncited ("This work lead to the suggestion that a visual percept could be due to the activity of a handful of neurons" and "Since 1975 he has been a faculty member at New York University, where he is University Professor and Silver Professor and Director of the University’s Center for Neural Science, which he founded in 1987.")
Regards,  Spintendo  00:55, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Request edit on 16 January 2019

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Hi! I'm new at this. I've added material linked to supporting material to a version of the article in my sandbox. The new material are updates to the article and removal of material that seemed to be just opinion. I don't know who wrote the original but the English usage is not great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltmaloneynyu (talk • contribs) 19:44, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry, the draft version that I see has only one reference. Is this the version you're talking about? Please advise.  Spintendo  21:02, 16 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Yes it is. I linked the honors and awards and fellowships to existing wikipedia pages. I thought another editor was suggesting I do that.
What should I do for (e.g.) a Guggenheim Fellowship? Do you want external links to the Guggenheim Foundation webpage, etc? What format?
Help...
The current online article is not by me (I removed all my changes). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltmaloneynyu (talk • contribs) 20:51, 17 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, and thank you for your reply. As far as using Wikipedia articles as references, while we can use paraphrased text from one article in another article, it's really whichever source is backing up the claim that is important here and which would be needed for the article. For example, if a claim in the first Wikipedia article is that something happened on such and such date, and you wanted to use a second Wikipedia article to verify that fact (because it's mentioned in the second article that the thing happened on such and such date) then this can be used in the first article — but the reference placed in the first article should not be the second Wikipedia article, but rather, whatever source the second article is using for that date. I hope that explanation makes sense. As far as the Guggenheim fellowship, something originating from them would work. Please advise, thanks!  Spintendo  00:29, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

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The criterion of Wikipedia:Notability (academics) is still subject to sourcing policies. This article has nine references and all are authored or co-authored by "Maloney, L. T." calling into question the actual notability. The "merits of an article on the academic/professor will depend largely on the extent to which it is verifiable." and this is not shown when one author is primarily involved in all sourcing concerning notability selection. In fact, it can be argued that all nine sources may count as one meaning the BLP is severely under sourced.
The criteria provides for identification of notable individuals, still subjected to sourcing, and not just that a subject "conducted studies", allowing for a standalone article. Otr500 (talk) 08:40, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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