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Speedy candidate
This article, as it is currently written, is probably a candidate for WP:SPEEDY#Articles #7:
An article about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is distinct from questions of verifiability and reliability of sources, and is a lower standard than notability; to avoid speedy deletion an article does not have to prove that its subject is notable, just give a reasonable indication of why it might be notable.
The article currently only states that he is a historian of science who studied under a prominent historian of science, lists one book he wrote (and, by mere footnote, that he has published a single article in a journal). It says nothing about why this historian of science is notable -- e.g. that new ideas he came up with, or books he wrote, were widely acclaimed -- or alternatively caused controversy. I don't want to nominate this article for deletion, as I suspect the topic may well turn out to be notable (which is why I purposefully didn't use template:notability) -- but will if the bare bedrock minimum of Speedy A7/template:importance aren't met. HrafnStalk 09:32, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
- The reference in the Isis journal is a Eulogy written by another historian. It's an independent, reliable source: not written by Sayili as Hrafn tries to claim. --Firefly322 (talk) 15:51, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
- My apologies, I misread the citation. But if this is a four page eulogy, then why can't you say anything more about him than that he once studied under a famous professor? This does not assert notability. Hundreds of thousands of students have studied under famous professors. A good number of these have gone on to publish at least one book. The article states no "reasonable indication of why it might be notable." HrafnStalk 16:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)