Talk:Cosma Shalizi

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This article was nominated for deletion on October 4, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

This scientist has contributed a major algorithm to the analysis of discrete time-series, and was ranked by Nature as a top-50 blogger.

[edit] Why was this individual given a Wikipedia article?????

I know that attempts have been made to remove this article. It barely escaped deletion last time, due to two moderate votes in favor of keeping the article. However, it is clear to me that this individual has not really made any significant advances in the field of computer science. How do I know this? I looked him up in the Web of Science. I found that he only has about 60 citations, which is not notable in any way. Furthermore, I find it ridiculous to give someone an article just because they write a blog on the internet that a lot of people read. By the way, although Nature may have listed him as a "top blogger," he has never published anything in this journal, nor has he published in Science. There are thousands of other researchers who routinely publish in these journals. Boab (talk) 18:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Shalizi is notable mainly because of his internet presence, and being nominated in the top 50 science bloggers by Nature in and of itself makes him much more notable than the great majority of the "thousands" of people who have merely written articles in Nature. Related to this, his "notebooks" are, having been online since 1994, an early example of a proto-blog. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.228.200 (talk) 00:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)