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Contents 1 William Manchester 2 Massive deletions restored 3 Sam Bunker Allison 4 Michael Goodman 5 Dr. Larry "Lightnin'" Dougherty 6 Paul W. Florsheim

[edit] William Manchester

Does anyone know the dates of William Manchester's affiliation with Wesleyan? - Jmabel | Talk 03:37, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Massive deletions restored

I just restored some massive anonymous deletions. It is possible that some of the deletions were fine; I don't have time to look at them one by one; and it is clear that someone was using an axe where a scalpel is called for. Basically, this removed everyone who doesn't already have an article, and removed most identifying information about those who remain. In short, it removed the two main things that are reasons why we have lists rather than just categories.

To give some indication of how arbitrary the removals were, among the people removed were:

• Christopher Wink, founder of the Blue Man Group
• Walter Wriston, former chairman of Citicorp (who has an article, it just wasn't linked)
• Jay Hoggard, one of the most prominent living jazz vibraphonists, routinely mentioned in the Downbeat poll
• Eric Asimov, New York Times restaurant columnist (Issac Asimov's nephew, if you were wondering)
• Amy Bloom, a rather prominent author

All of these five certainly deserve articles (except maybe Wink should be a redirect to Blue Man Group. Lists like this are often incubators of articles; it's one of the things they are good for.

I'm not at all convinced that the long list of business people are all worthy of articles; there may be little interesting to say about the CEO of The Conference Board of New York beyond the fact that he is CEO of The Conference Board of New York; still I think that is a reasonably appropriate inclusion in an alumni list. I'd be willing to see a removal of those who aren't worth an article or a redirect if there is a consensus to do so but not on the unilateral undiscussed action of one anonymous editor. - Jmabel | Talk 07:01, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I would argue that anyone without an article should be deleted. This list is useless as it stands. I don't think that 'The Conference Board of new York' is anything meriting inclusion. I don't think most people know or care to know. This list should be short just a few dozen, anything more is ridiculous. ---being Isaac Asimov's nephew is NOT an accomplishment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.133.124.199 (talk) 00:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sam Bunker Allison

Is not a renowned photographer, nor inheritor of the Shaoling lineage, as far as I have been independantly able to verify.

[edit] Michael Goodman

Michael Goodman 2005, listed as a professional poker player. There is a professional poker player by this name, and he is judging by his face about the right age; does someone have a citation that he attended Wesleyan? - Jmabel | Talk 17:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dr. Larry "Lightnin'" Dougherty

Does anyone have a citation for this nickname for Dougherty? - Jmabel | Talk 19:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paul W. Florsheim

Paul Florsheim 1983 is indeed a professor of psychology at the University of Utah and has been a consultant to the government of Palau, but is there any citation for the claim that he is "the only psychologist registered to practice in the Republic of Palau"? - Jmabel | Talk 19:22, 2 December 2007 (UTC)