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How come people keep removing her from Category:American mathematicians? — Keenan Pepper 15:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't think one paper is enough to make a mathematician notable, unless that paper was remarkable itself.
Have any other published papers cited the one written by Melanie Wood? Google scholar gives 3 citations, one of which one is a preprint. I've nominated this article to be checked for its importance tagged this article as not establishing the notability of its subject. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
Joeldl
15:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
You can doubt it, and so can I, for that matter. It's been a learning experience seeing what the community at large considers worth keeping over the last couple years. There's definitely been shifts in focus. I don't even agree to a large extent on WP:Notability, but it seems to have a lot of support. -- C S (Talk) 23:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
This article is disproportionately long, especially compared to articles on legends like Bombieri and Bourgain. I agree that the subject is notable, but an entire section on childhood, another on college years and a third on trivia borders on the ludicrous. Six sentences suffice. 72.79.88.51 05:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
please realize that you are taking up the time of people like me before you complain further. Basically, in the time I took to respond to you, I could have written some more mathematics or improved a mathematican bio (as I am wont to do), but I don't really have the time or energy for it now -- C S 01:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
That doesn't make sense. I can't fix it myself because I don't know any facts of the case so I don't know what it's supposed to say. Somebody with the facts, please fix the English?
198.144.192.45 ( talk) 22:15, 9 January 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)
So she was a "math whiz"? The language-related definitions in whiz are: Slang for urination ("take a whiz") and British slang for amphetamines. Neither does fit in the context. 85.217.47.2 ( talk) 14:05, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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How come people keep removing her from Category:American mathematicians? — Keenan Pepper 15:50, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I don't think one paper is enough to make a mathematician notable, unless that paper was remarkable itself.
Have any other published papers cited the one written by Melanie Wood? Google scholar gives 3 citations, one of which one is a preprint. I've nominated this article to be checked for its importance tagged this article as not establishing the notability of its subject. Maybe there's something I'm missing.
Joeldl
15:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
You can doubt it, and so can I, for that matter. It's been a learning experience seeing what the community at large considers worth keeping over the last couple years. There's definitely been shifts in focus. I don't even agree to a large extent on WP:Notability, but it seems to have a lot of support. -- C S (Talk) 23:45, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
This article is disproportionately long, especially compared to articles on legends like Bombieri and Bourgain. I agree that the subject is notable, but an entire section on childhood, another on college years and a third on trivia borders on the ludicrous. Six sentences suffice. 72.79.88.51 05:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
please realize that you are taking up the time of people like me before you complain further. Basically, in the time I took to respond to you, I could have written some more mathematics or improved a mathematican bio (as I am wont to do), but I don't really have the time or energy for it now -- C S 01:03, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
That doesn't make sense. I can't fix it myself because I don't know any facts of the case so I don't know what it's supposed to say. Somebody with the facts, please fix the English?
198.144.192.45 ( talk) 22:15, 9 January 2011 (UTC) Twitter.Com/CalRobert (Robert Maas)
So she was a "math whiz"? The language-related definitions in whiz are: Slang for urination ("take a whiz") and British slang for amphetamines. Neither does fit in the context. 85.217.47.2 ( talk) 14:05, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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