Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan M. Newmark

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep Proto||type 14:23, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nathan M. Newmark

Appears to just be a college proffessor of no notability. If it's kept it at least needs to have something added to the first paragraph to explain who this guy actually is. Tango 17:48, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. A badly structured lead is not a deletion criterion. Not a "college professor", but a research professor and head of department at a major university (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other prestigious societies. Received the National Medal of Science, and the John Fritz Medal and several other awards. The American Society of Civil Engineers has named a medal after him.[1]. He was "widely known for his research in structural engineering and structural dynamics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for his contributions to the design of earthquake-resistant structures—including the Latino Americana Tower in Mexico City—and, most recently, for his work on the design of the trans-Alaska pipeline." [2] Tupsharru 19:50, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
  • P.S. Let me just add that I know far too little (which is to say absolutely nothing) about Newmark's line of work, so I am not willing to try to rewrite the article. But I'm pretty sure there are people around who can do that. Tupsharru 20:04, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This article appears to me to be plagiarized from somewhere, so it needs to be rewritten, not deleted. But as a recipient of the National Medal of Science, which is a pretty major national award, and all the reasons cited above, he was more than just another professor. Also his work on the Torre Latinoamericana, doing the engineering that made it withstand earthquakes, was notable in that it made the building itself notable. (In the interests of full disclosure and adjusting for POV, he was a distant cousin of mine, but I never met him.) Bruxism 19:55, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Withdraw It looks like I might have been mistaken here - the article doesn't actually mention any of these medals, which might well make him notable. Looking closer, I missed one of the medals on the "what links here" page, and the other has his name mispelt (as does the articles reference) as Newark. Google finds hardly any hits for the alternative spelling, so I expect is is the same man as is just a mistake. The article needs serious rewriting, but I guess it's worth keeping. I withdraw the deletion request (BTW, how do I actually do that?). --Tango 20:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: I would have said delete as a copyright violation. The article has many signs of being a copyright violation. It even has "figure 1" in the text. However, I have been unable to find the source of the text. -- Kjkolb 23:42, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.