User talk:Ealtorfer

Welcome
~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:11, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Andrew Nierman
I noticed your understandable objection to deleting the article on Andrew Nierman. You might not be aware of the notability expectations that Wikiquote and its sister project Wikipedia have for university professors. Please review the information at w:Wikipedia:Notability (people) and w:Wikipedia:Notability (people) for more information. (Consider especially the comments from professor/WP editors Average Earthman and cmf in w:Wikipedia:Notability (people).)

To make a case for keeping the article, it would be helpful if you could mentioned the more prominent of Mr. Nierman's works so his credentials might be reviewed by the community. Please understand that, if the decision is ultimately made to delete the article, it doesn't impune the reputation of the subject. It's just that university professors (like so many other groups whose members number in the millions) must typically rise above their peers in some significant manner. I suspect that the IHIQS contest is not an adequate measure (even in Mr. Nierman's apparent opinion, based on the Ann Arbor News article I linked to). Of course, other Wikiquotians besides yourself may disagree.

Another way to help make the case for a specific person is to create a Wikipedia article for them, which Mr. Neirman does not appear to have at the moment. WP has a vaster audience of editors who can more thoroughly investigate notability and verify sources. Your article may be nominated for deletion there as well, but the VfD process [AfD on Wikipedia] itself often establishes, rather than dismisses, a subject because of its cited sources and rationale. (That's why I took so much trouble to check out and provide links to some of the points raised in your WQ article and other web pages I found.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 03:37, 4 February 2006 (UTC)