Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Schmitt

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The result of the debate was DELETE. I've ignored the only "keep" vote because of irrelevant insults towards another Wikipedian. — JIP | Talk 15:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Schmitt

High school teacher, and winner of the The Greenwood and Trjitzinsky Prize for an undergraduate paper. Is that notable enough? I would think any research university faculty would be a better mathematician, but this guy is in a different category, so I am not sure. However,

• Delete Oleg Alexandrov 01:59, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: I don't think every professor is notable, so I certainly can't sign off on this guy. Anyway, this is a clear-cut case of a vanity page. -Lethe | Talk 02:09, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete: Vanity. (The picture caption gives pause as well.) --KSmrq^T 04:38, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I'm not sure. I was thinking Delete, but I checked what links there and if the sentences at Detroit Country Day School were true than maybe a keep. ("developed the WebWork system that so many of America's schools use", "making him world-known among mathemiticians") Astrokey44 09:34, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Vanity, not notable. If you do keep, this article suffers many NPOV problems. Velvetsmog 19:59, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. WebWork is open source--it has many many developers. Chick Bowen 04:22, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Schmitt is a very well known mathematician who founded one of the first webwork movements in the united states. He is a very notable person in the mathematics world. None of you losers know what you are talking about. (unsigned post by User:68.61.101.254)

Note that this anonimous user has been vandalizing user pages. Oleg Alexandrov 15:55, 18 September 2005

Note that Oleg cannot spell anonymous... Get a life loser(UTC)

• Delete - vanity, not notable. — ciphergoth 15:56, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - I've attempted to make the article a little more encyclopaedic based on other Google matches. His award was for an undergraduate school paper given by his own math department (apparently with very few paper submissions, since some years have only 1 winner and ties are frequent and 3rd place is rarely given). WeBWorK is an indeed an open-source package, and as Chick Bowen pointed out above, Mark was probably just one of many contributors to it (if he did anything beyond simply installing and promoting use of it at his high-school). -- Bovineone 07:14, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: created by sockpuppet or through open proxy - David Gerard 16:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

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