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What is a scientist or scholar? Somebody exclusively in government or commerce should not be considered. Where to draw the line? One criterion is the necessity of somebody to have appeared in scientific literature and somewhat built up a career. Soyinka and Achebe might not fulfill that requirement, but they are recognized as scholars who speak or spoke with authority.
What is a Nigerian scientist? Only those born and working in Nigeria? Those born elsewhere but now working in Nigeria? There are a number of cases of Nigerians who grew up abroad and stayed abroad. Should these be on the list?
Checking the authors with an affiliation as a Nigerian university in the top 100 of number of publications there are only a handful mentioned in this list of scholars. The top 5 are O. Gureje, G. Oboh, E.O. Farombi, A. Sowunmi and S. Misra. These have no Wikipedia pages.
Better to let this page disappear and add all present names to category of Nigerian Scientists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pjtverheijen ( talk • contribs) 18:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm a great admirer of Chinua Achebe, but why is he in this list? His notability is as a writer, and he is (of course) listed in List of Nigerian writers. Was he a notable scientist/scholar as well? I don't get that from our article Chinua Achebe. Bishonen | talk 14:45, 28 April 2016 (UTC).
May I ask how to go about indicating that a person on the List of living persons had died? Openworks ( talk) 04:16, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
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What is a scientist or scholar? Somebody exclusively in government or commerce should not be considered. Where to draw the line? One criterion is the necessity of somebody to have appeared in scientific literature and somewhat built up a career. Soyinka and Achebe might not fulfill that requirement, but they are recognized as scholars who speak or spoke with authority.
What is a Nigerian scientist? Only those born and working in Nigeria? Those born elsewhere but now working in Nigeria? There are a number of cases of Nigerians who grew up abroad and stayed abroad. Should these be on the list?
Checking the authors with an affiliation as a Nigerian university in the top 100 of number of publications there are only a handful mentioned in this list of scholars. The top 5 are O. Gureje, G. Oboh, E.O. Farombi, A. Sowunmi and S. Misra. These have no Wikipedia pages.
Better to let this page disappear and add all present names to category of Nigerian Scientists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pjtverheijen ( talk • contribs) 18:27, 3 February 2016 (UTC)
I'm a great admirer of Chinua Achebe, but why is he in this list? His notability is as a writer, and he is (of course) listed in List of Nigerian writers. Was he a notable scientist/scholar as well? I don't get that from our article Chinua Achebe. Bishonen | talk 14:45, 28 April 2016 (UTC).
May I ask how to go about indicating that a person on the List of living persons had died? Openworks ( talk) 04:16, 24 May 2022 (UTC)