User talk:Nacogdoches

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Dean Mengler

The page you have edited on him , has been listed for speedy deletion. I have removed the deletion tag, which stops the process for the moment. He seems a worthy subject for an article, but if you would like the article to remain you must write it in the WP style, which includes:

  • listing college degrees with university and year -- and putting the university names in double brackets
  • listing important awards, important memberships and offices held --a list is more readable than paragraphs
  • listing books published as formal references style: Author, title, Publisher, year ISBN if possible.
  • listing some major published papers, say how many total. Do not just link to Google, list the most prestigious papers. State the importance the journals are. Say how many other papers cited them
  • and, most important, giving some 3rd party sources. A website at a university etc. can be one, but it cannot be the only one. Book reviews are fine, or a newspaper stories. Print or web is OK, but not from a list or a blog. These is, very unfortunately, some prejudice against people from the academic world.

and the other law school faculty bios you are writing have similar problems. Writing them is a meritorious and highly worthwhile activity, but sometimes it is not easy to understand from such a short article that the person is notable. There are a number of editors engaged in the essential activity of checking newly created articles and deleting those about truly unnotable people, of which there are several hundred each day. To keep your articles from being deleted by mistake, always include at least the information mentioned above. There is no point doing the work if the articles don;t stay in WP.

If any additional articles get deleted or labeled for deletion--and you can tell because you should have the articles you create on your watchlist--please let me know & I'll help a little if I can. But its you who has to do the work of expanding them.

This is all the more important as several WP editors over the last few days have been making a university by university search for academic bios to delete, and the seem to be picking the more prominent people, with an emphasis on distinguished holders of named chairs. Don't ask me why. I & other eds. are trying to keep up with them, but we need your help in writing truly sound articles--which are much easier to defend. I try to rewrite 1 or 2 a week myself, but I'm overwhelmed. DGG 22:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC)