Talk:Melanie Mitchell

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Cleanup

There's a bit of puffery in the article, but let's not be too hasty with the deletion, shall we? I just tagged the statements for sourcing this week, and WP:There is no deadline. If I thought the statements were without hope of a reasonable solution, I would have left them deleted, rather than reverting and tagging them. Jclemens (talk) 06:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is a link to her google scholar articles enough to substanciate the fact that she's among the most cited authors? 3000+ citations for a book is impressive...Zorbid (talk) 14:53, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say so. I removed the tag. Jclemens (talk) 15:01, 16 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The statement could - and should - be more precise about two points: first, the meaning of "most highly cited" (is that the top 10% or 5% or 20%?); and second, the group of comparison ("researchers in the USA" is not precise enough, since it is - depending on the first point mentioned - wrong, cf. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3A%22Paul+Samuelson%22&btnG=Search and http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3A%22John+Nash%22&btnG=Search and go on with looking up the numbers of citations of every US Nobel prize laureate, Fields Medalist, etc.) Consequently, I doubt that her Google Scholar link is enough to substantiate the claim in its present form. However, since I am not an expert, I do not feel able to change it myself. 92.227.177.157 (talk) 11:16, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Absent any good way of making it more precise in its claims, I've toned down the verbiage. Look better? Jclemens (talk) 16:13, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you. At least to me, that seems more to the point. Wish you a happy New Year! ivbauer 62.143.93.53 (talk) 00:13, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There a lot of articles on scientists who are clearly good scientists, but really shouldn't have articles on them. I think it's reaching the point of silliness. Wikipedia is not supposed to be a place to post CV's. She is clearly an excellent scientist, but wikipedia simply shouldn't have articles on every highly intelligent person on the planet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.4.50.98 (talk) 13:24, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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