Talk:Shirley Jackson (physicist)

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Contents 1 Article needs to be rewritten 2 Notability 3 Controversy 4 EMPAC

[edit] Article needs to be rewritten

This article needs to be rewritten. It copies straight from the link specified and had numerous mistakes. I corrected a few. But much needs to be done. Эйрон Кинни 01:38, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Some work has been done so as not to make it a direct copy, and credit was given where due. Any more improvements are welcome. Danski14 23:16, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Notability

The article may not be great, but I can't see how she isn't notable. Just look at the article. I'm tempted to consider the notabiltiy template vandalism and remove it. —Ben FrantzDale 23:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Of course she's notable. Gzuckier 14:11, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy

Hi,

I just removed the controversy section, which read

In March of 2008, Jackson used her authority as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to censor artist Wafaa Bilal's on campus installation of a controversial anti-war piece. Jackson ordered the exhibit shut down. When it moved to an off-campus site, the city of Troy used code enforcement to shut down that site as well. Jackson has not commented on the issue since her initial act of censorship.

since it was unsourced. Feel free to re-insert a section on the controversy, but please, especially as we are dealing with a living person bio (see the links at the top of this page!), cite reliable sources (cf. WP:RELIABLE). Markus Poessel (talk) 15:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] EMPAC

Having the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center as a separate second-level subheading in this article is a clear violation of WP:UNDUE. Additionally, the subheading for "Scientific career" also includes her career in administrative positions. I'm going to reorganize this article a bit within a few days, if someone doesn't get to it first. -FrankTobia (talk) 03:20, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree, EMPAC does not warrant it's own section here. Shirley Ann undoubtedly had major influence on the project, but it is debatable and unclear how big of a role she actually played. Certainly other administrators, and the director of EMPAC, Johannes Goebel helped promote the project as well, as well as the campus planning team. I think we should reduce it to one or two sentences and merge with the previous paragraph. I would like to see some improvements on the EMPAC page, though Danski14^(talk) 15:04, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

So I made some improvements. I think there's a sentence in the RPI section about a teach-in that doesn't belong in this article either. Also I ran across some heavily physics-related stuff in "Career" which probably should be pared down or made less technical. I'll be taking care of these issues in a few days if I don't hear any opposes. -FrankTobia (talk) 15:30, 22 May 2008 (UTC)