On Sep 16, 2005, at 12:31 PM, Fastfission wrote:
Being a fellow with a job which you went to school for is not in itself notable to the world at large, even if that job is being professor at a prominent university.
For what it's worth, I disagree. I think that in an encyclopedia, which values peer-reviewed sources and academic knowledge particularly highly, there is a real case to be made that professors at accredited universities are notable. The way I see it, pretty much all professors, whether PhDs, JDs, or whatever, have made some sort of contribution to their field - law review articles, dissertations, other publications. If we're the sum total of human knowledge, we'd cover all those contributions. Thus articles on the professors seem sensible by default.
I'll go one further, in fact. I think everyone who has been main or sole author on a publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly journal deserves a Wikipedia article. Yes, this would include a whole lot of grad students. But if they're making or have made verifiable contributions to their field, we should be including them. No question.
-Snowspinner