User talk:Pscience writer

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Proposed deletion of Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process because of the following concern:

Non-notable biography.

All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised because, even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. TN X Man 15:28, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

advice

As reviewing admin, I stopped the immediate deletion process. But you absolutely must say more. If, as I suspect from your username, you have a conflict of interest, please read carefully our FAQ about business, organisations, and articles like this. Then read WP:PROF, for what makes professors notable. You need to show she is an authority in here field. Don;t assume people will know the significance of her position. Talk a little about her career, list any awards and editorship, and then give a short list of her most important papers, with the number of times they've been cited. This is the critical factor, for the citations show her an authority. I advise you to improve this article very quickly, before the article gets deleted by a regular deletion process. DGG (talk) 03:20, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, do not do it like you did George P. Chrousos‎. First, do not copy from the ISI or other web page, ever. Second, don't try to list everything. WP is not a place for CVs. I will trim this down to a reasonable size. If you;re going to do scientific bios, look around at some others first. I am familiar with the profession, and I can and do defend such articles in Wikipedia--they're very important. Please enter as many as you can at this high level of accomplishment. But do them right. I'll be glad to help & to answer questions, but first see see our guide to writing Wikipedia articles, and WP:BIO.
One key thing: avoid adjectives of praise. Show how the work is important, do not say it is. Otherwise it sounds like a public relations workup, and we are an encyclopedia. I removed a remarkable amount of what I can only call puffery from the article on Dr. C. The article would have qualified for speedy deletion as promotional, and I would have deleted it as such, except that it can be edited into a proper article. By the way, h index is relevant. Adding up the IP factors of individual articles is not. And only peer-reviewed articles count. Any editorships (editor in chief only)? They prove notability. DGG (talk) 03:28, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback and advice. You're completely right. I'll rewrite this article, but it could take some time to do it right. Thanks for cleaning up the Chrousos article. Agreed, it contained too much "puffery" and I should have cut most of that content earlier. Thank you.

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz was recently inducted into the national academy of sciences, and is a pioneer in confocal microscopy.

Is it possible for me to create "stubs" with links and publications for some researchers, so they can be properly vetted by the wikipedia community? I would like to be transparent and assist in providing unbiased information for articles and do not want my connections to NIH to influence articles. Pscience writer (talk) 05:24, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]