User talk:Djstates

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[edit] License tagging for Image:Djstates.gif

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[edit] Notability

Yes, I did add the tag. I also added a note on the article's talk page, explaining why I added it. The main problem with the article as it stood when I added the tag was that the article did not cite any puhished sources independent from the article subject that discussed Mr. States. Whenever notability is questioned on Wikipedia, the main thing is to CITE SOURCES. I assume by your username that you are the Mr. States in question. If so, as a university professor you really should be famiiliar with the concept of citing sources and should make your students do it in papers they write. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 04:34, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

You mentioned the article on CHARMM. See near the bottom of the page where it has a section called "References" that tells where the authors of that article got their information? That's what the article on David States needs. That's what will prove notability, if other people are talking about him, then there can be no question that he is notable. The links you added in the external links section are all well and good... but they don't prove notability. You seem to think that the mere fact that he is a professor at University of Michigan means he is notable, but the biography notability guidlines suggest that to have an article a person should be more notable than the average university professor. I do see how he is notable under the guideline that says, "The person made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in their specific field", but the article isn't really as clear in asserting that he has made such a widely recognized contribution and, more importantly, the article doesn't cite a source for his widely recognized contributions. Am I making any sense to you? ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 05:05, 12 October 2006 (UTC) (p.s., you can have your username and the date automatically added to your posts on talk pages by typing four of these ~ at the end.)

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