Talk:David Hanson (American)

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Not very notable, did some doctoral work that got a little press attention, but nothing meriting a bio here. --fvw* 18:15, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)

  • KeepI just moved this page to where it is, as it was sharing a page with David Hanson (MP)'s biog which I thought deserved its own page. I had to create a disambiguation David Hanson page for it, but didn't really know if it was relevant. Having altered links to the page, I saw that there are a few pages that link to it, chronicling some detailed research, so it is relevant in some respect.81.153.212.124 18:41, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep - Developing one of the world's most advanced robot heads is fairly notable in my opinion, and his work has been covered internationally (there's a BBC article about it). - Starblind 19:45, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
    • It should be noted that the bbc tech/sci news department do a lot of these fluff pieces, many of them about interesting or fun but (in my opinion) non-notable subjects. And the "most advanced robot head" claim from the article is nonsense ofcourse, this is merely (one of) the most realistic imitations of a human head. --fvw* 19:51, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)
      • And or course that always comes down to the individual's opinion of what notability, uh, denotes. And I don't intend to say that mine is correct or yours is incorrect. But it remains that Hanson is a pioneer in a very small field of research, whose work has attracted acclaim and attention on a global scale, which by itself puts him well above probably a good half of single-person Wikipedia articles. Starblind 20:10, Jan 6, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. He's in USA Today and the BBC and he's a leader in his field. This passes my notability test by a comfortable margin. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:49, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. As others said. Paranoid 20:57, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, borderline notability, needs expansion. Megan1967 01:39, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, seems no notability to me Ejrrjs | What? 02:58, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. He's notable enough to be featured in various publications. --Deathphoenix 21:01, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Notable by any fair measure... Salazar 02:40, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Certainly looks notable to me. Raven42 14:07, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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The article describes his skin substitute as requiring "1¼20 less force" than human skin to move. What is meant by "1¼20"? And what's the source for this information? --LostLeviathan 03:22, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

What's this? 1¼20

[edit] Random Picture?

What's with the random einstein picture?

A. That's a robot that the guy built.

If you look at the edit history, you find that this page was written by dayofid@hotmail.com, and if you email dayofid@hotmail.com, you find that it is David Hanson. In other words, David Hanson wrote most of the page on David Hanson. Then when you actually read what he wrote, you find that it sounds more like a public relations piece than an unbiased encyclopedia entry. -This was not signed but done by 68.88.70.21-

  • Agree. This does read and "feel" like a PR piece. I do however think he is notable. I will work on a revision. Been busy lately so if somebody else wants to take it up it would be appreciated. Please sign your posts by putting four "~"s at the end of your edit. Thanks. -- ×××jijin+machina | Chat Me!××× -- 01:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
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