Talk:Eugene Lewis

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[edit] Vanity?

Is this a vanity page? It looks like it might be, but I could be wrong. Can anyone make an argument for why it is not? Still A Student 14:43, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Still A Student 23:52, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me that if a person is both a published academic and a former provost of a college, then it is useful to have a stub on that person, for various reasons. . .such as for people trying to do research in a certain field. However, the rhetoric would have to be toned down for this article to be NPOV. Words like "influential" and "effective" ought to be deleted. I didn't write the original article, but it would only take me a couple of minutes to revise it. --Shakantala 21:44, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I went ahead and deleted the terms "influential" and "critically acclaimed"; these two things may be true, but there was a lack of citation showing which critics acclaim him, which people are influenced by him, etc. I believe that, now that this page is less glowing, it gives off the impression of a "vanity page" much less than it did before. I believe the article should be kept for several reasons: research on political bureaucracy, or on provosts of New College, etc. --Shakantala 18:36, 4 May 2006 (UTC)