User talk:Dindimus
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[edit] April 2008
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[edit] S. N. Balagangadhara;
Hey there, brother. No need to be defensive, but the S. N. Balagangadhara needs some work. Reads like a puff-piece by adoring fans. The link was to a book review: such things are not normally listed on a scholar's WP page: they're too darn trivial. An academic listed on WP has got to be known for more than book reviews. To wit: the journals S. N. Balagangadhara has published in are quite weak. No offense, but S. N. Balagangadhara sounds like a rather ordinary scholar, who has published some articles, book chapters, and a couple of books published with non-notable presses. That's true of 10,000 scholars who don't appear on WP.
If you feel committed to S. N. Balagangadhara, you might work a bit to prove his notability.
A discussion board is not an appropriate link (see policies and guidelines).
Basically,S. N. Balagangadhara looks like a very ordinary scholar: he has his fans and his influences, but he's not particularly well-known, hasn't published with any major academic presses, hasn't published in any notable journals. He has virtually no presence on WP in other articles. I'm afraid his notability is rather in question. But perhaps I'm wrong: perhaps his notability can be established. Smilo Don (talk) 15:17, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
