[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

Wed Jan 27 04:46:04 UTC 2010

Where was Robert Corell's article previously?  Perhaps my search was
inadequate but I didn't find it looking quickly...

-george

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:07 PM, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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