[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[The Cunctator]

Sheesh. I was on a press conference call today with one of the deleted
people as a speaker.

*Robert Corell* is the Director of the Global Change Program at The H. John
Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment and is a Senior
Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological
Society<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Meteorological_Society>,
and he recently completed an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow
in the Belfer
Center for Science and International
Affairs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfer_Center_for_Science_and_International_Affairs>of
the Kennedy
School of Government<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_School_of_Government>at
Harvard
University <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University> which began in
January 2000. He is currently actively engaged in research concerned with
both the science of global change and the interface between science and
public policy. He is particularly interested in global and regional climate
change <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change> and related
environmental issues, and in the science to facilitate understanding of
vulnerability and sustainable
development<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development>
.

Dr. Corell is the co-chairman of an international strategic planning group
that is developing the strategy for and the programs and activities that are
designed to harness science, technology and innovation for sustainable
development. This planning effort is sponsored by the International Council
for Science <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Council_for_Science>(ICSU),
the Third
World Academy of
Sciences<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World_Academy_of_Sciences>(TWAS),
and a major international initiative, supported in part from a grant
from the Packard
Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Foundation>entitled
“An International Initiative for Science Technology, and Innovation
for Sustainability (ISTS).” He is the leader of an international partnership
intended to better understand and plan for a transition to
hydrogen<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen>for several nations,
entitled the “Global Hydrogen Partnership,” currently
focused on Iceland <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland>,
India<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India>,
and the eight Arctic nations seeking to address this important new
energy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy>strategy and economic
policy.

Dr. Corell is leading a research project to explore methods, models, and
conceptual frameworks for vulnerability research, analysis, and assessment.
The current focus of which is on vulnerabilities of indigenous communities
in the Arctic. Further, he currently serves as the Chair of the Arctic
Climate Impact Assessment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Climate_Impact_Assessment>;
an international assessment of the impacts of climate variability, change,
and UV increases in the Arctic Region, and the Chair of an international
planning R&D effort for the Arctic region and with a time scale of a decade
or two ahead. He is also the Senior Science Advisor to ManyOne
Networks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManyOne_Networks>,
a Silicon Valley <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley> team
designing the next generation of Internet Web Browser, the initial focus on
planet earth and Chair of the Board of the Digital Universe
Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Universe_Foundation>
.

Prior to January 2000, Dr. Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at
the National Science
Foundation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation>(NSF)
where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences
and the global change programs of the NSF. While at the NSF, Dr. Corell also
served as the Chair of the National Science and Technology
Council<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_and_Technology_Council>’s
committee that has oversight of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Global_Change_Research_Program>and
was Chair of the international committee of government agencies
funding
global change research. Further, he served as Chair and principal U.S.
delegate to many international bodies with interests in and responsibilities
for climate and global change research programs.

Prior to joining the NSF, Dr. Corell was a Professor and academic
administrator at the University of New
Hampshire<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Hampshire>.
Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training,
having received the Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees at the Case Western Reserve
University and MIT and has held appointments at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woods_Hole_Oceanographic_Institution>,
the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography>,
the University of
Washington<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Washington>,
and Case Western Reserve
University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Western_Reserve_University>
.


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:45 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Agreed with David G. on this point. The general sentiment to keep up
> > with BLPs is ok, I think; but most of the time sources can be found
> > for most bios. (And yes, I do make an occasional hobby of sourcing
> > random BLPs
>
> I do this sometimes as well, but not random ones. I pick ones I know
> will have a plethora of sources. I guess that is cheating, but I don't
> have the time or motivation to scrabble around for sources for some
> random stubs, when I know in my heart of hearts that some articles
> just aren't really suitable for Wikipedia (the question is whether to
> allow others a chance, and for how long).
>
> > it's hard work and takes at least a good hour or two
> > per bio to do properly, and that's with access to a full university
> > library).
>
> To be fair, it only takes time if you allow yourself to get
> distracted, and aim for relatively high standards (which you should do
> for BLPs as a matter of course).
>
> I took half an hour to do this:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronald_Urwick_Cooke&action=historysubmit&diff=340263275&oldid=306734087
>
> Clearly, there is still more work both possible and needed.
>
> But I could have just thrown in the "won the Gold Medal of the RGS"
> statement and the accompanying reference, both to this article and to
> two others I spotted:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drewry
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Holdgate
>
> Indeed, I will now go and do just that for the other two (actually, I
> will likely get distracted again - one source will lead to another,
> and I will keep going until I've done the best I think I can do in a
> half hour or so for each one - clearly, this amount of time is reduced
> if you find yourself unable to find any suitable sources).
>
> But the question is whether it is better to pass through all the
> unsourced BLPs quickly (a "rough and ready" approach), or to take the
> time to do each one to a higher standard, at the cost of taking
> longer.
>
> Ideally, someone would both set deadlines, say how much effort to
> spend per BLP, work out how long it will take to clear the current
> backlog, and cut off the incoming flow (or delegate a separate task
> force to do rough-and-ready sourcing of newly created BLPs).
>
> But that requires both leadership, organisation and a dedicated and
> committed workforce.
>
> Does Wikipedia have that? Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
> Depends on the workflow and the nature of the work.
>
> Carcharoth
>
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