The result was delete. Nandesuka 12:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC) reply
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Mensa International is a social organization that requires annual dues for membership, which they will neither confirm nor deny. Being a member does not represent a lifetime achievement (unlike List of Eagle Scouts or List of Nobel laureates), but merely a genetic predisposition to score higher than 98% of the population on a certain kind of test.
"Member" is also unqualified ... should former or deceased members be listed as well, such as Ian Meldrum and Isaac Asimov?
Six million people in the US alone are "Mensa qualified", although less than 1% (around 50,000) are currently members ... most "famous" people (like anyone who has won a Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer Prize) are by definition potential members, but for reasons of their own, they have chosen not to pay the annual dues.
Mensa may be "the largest, oldest, and most well-known high IQ society in the world," but there are several others whose requirements are much higher and restrictive (1:1000 as opposed to 1:50), and whose members are more worthy of being considered geniuses.
If anything, this should be a Category with a Tag, rather than just an arbitrary list that will require constant monitoring. The History of the article shows that it is a magnet for trolls and vandals.
See also: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of geniuses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dennette ( talk • contribs)
Delete with extreme prejudice! This article is yet another bloody smeggy list and as all the lists I have found seems to be in violation of both Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a directory. The article has a very brief one sentence introduction. Also I really do not see how this article can ever be verified as either complete or accurate. It may be better if it were a category. Displaced Brit 01:39, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Delete with extreme prejudice! Per displaced brit. Extreme Prejudice... I like that. -- Targetter (Lock On) 02:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply
The result was delete. Nandesuka 12:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC) reply
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Mensa International is a social organization that requires annual dues for membership, which they will neither confirm nor deny. Being a member does not represent a lifetime achievement (unlike List of Eagle Scouts or List of Nobel laureates), but merely a genetic predisposition to score higher than 98% of the population on a certain kind of test.
"Member" is also unqualified ... should former or deceased members be listed as well, such as Ian Meldrum and Isaac Asimov?
Six million people in the US alone are "Mensa qualified", although less than 1% (around 50,000) are currently members ... most "famous" people (like anyone who has won a Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer Prize) are by definition potential members, but for reasons of their own, they have chosen not to pay the annual dues.
Mensa may be "the largest, oldest, and most well-known high IQ society in the world," but there are several others whose requirements are much higher and restrictive (1:1000 as opposed to 1:50), and whose members are more worthy of being considered geniuses.
If anything, this should be a Category with a Tag, rather than just an arbitrary list that will require constant monitoring. The History of the article shows that it is a magnet for trolls and vandals.
See also: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of geniuses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dennette ( talk • contribs)
Delete with extreme prejudice! This article is yet another bloody smeggy list and as all the lists I have found seems to be in violation of both Wikipedia:No original research and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a directory. The article has a very brief one sentence introduction. Also I really do not see how this article can ever be verified as either complete or accurate. It may be better if it were a category. Displaced Brit 01:39, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply
Delete with extreme prejudice! Per displaced brit. Extreme Prejudice... I like that. -- Targetter (Lock On) 02:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC) reply