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Third-party sources?

Mark Lemley is probably the most influential, and at least most-cited, IP professor active today. Why is it that this article is so deeply dependent on sources from or affiliated with the article subject himself?

Of the fifteen cites in the article, ten of them are to affiliated sources:

his archived Stanford bio (1 cite);
his law firm bio (2 cites);
another Stanford bio (4 cites);
his resume (1 cite); and
his SIEPR bio, also at Stanford (1 cite).

Surely someone other than Lemley is talking about him. Why is there such a reliance on affiliated sources? Where are the independent sources? TJRC (talk) 20:29, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removed "Publications" subsection

The second of my edits to this article today removed a subsection about an oft-cited article co-written by Mark Lemley. The edit was poorly written, not in compliance with the spirit of Wikipedia's WP:NOTABILITY policy, accompanied by a small yet unacceptable citation error, and an inexplicable highlight of a minor work when a clearly more worthy work should have been added.

The subsection's title was just the title of Lemley and Doug Lichtman's article, Rethinking Patent Law's Presumption of Validity. That's no good. It contains no context explaining for the layperson what they're about to read, it wasn't italicized, the article's title wasn't in the subsection's actual text, and there's no apparent reason this information needed to be in its own subsection apart from the top section "Publications."

The section congratulated Lemley and Lichtman for publishing "one of the most cited IP Law articles in the last ten years." According to the source, that is incorrect: Rethinking was one of the most-cited articles between 2005 and 2009, which is not the last ten years nor is it a ten-year period.

The citation incorrectly credited Stanford law professor (and that blog's owner) Lisa Larrimore Ouellette as the post's writer. It was written by University of San Diego law professor Ted Sichelman.

Several basic writing errors. The phrase "most cited" was missing a dash, the unencyclopedic shorthand "IP Law" with a grammatically-incorrect capitalization was used, the second sentence's use of the words "task" and "tasks" was redundant, etc.

The biggest issue is enough that this whole subsection has to go. This congratulatory to Lemley and Lichtman was for an article that was the 17th most-cited article in that time period. That's undeniably an accomplishment but why in the world are we only spotlighting #17 when Lemley co-wrote the articles ranked #2, #3, and #6? For that matter, why mention anything but Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding? On the list of most-cited articles between 2005 and 2009 it was far-and-away #1 and it was written by Lemley alone. We're trying to show that he's just about the most frequently-cited expert in this topic and we skipped #1, a sole credit, for #17, a co-credit. Why?

This was added by User:Kylabutler as part of a Wiki Ed school assignment and it's a perfect entry in that genre of editing. The assignment's requirements were the only priority, neither Wiki Ed nor the instructors expected the student to meet this site's standards for contributing, and the result was a low-quality, misleading addition that just stuck here for months and months. 2600:1700:B7A1:9A30:8579:32DC:EC66:96B1 (talk) 00:05, 9 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]