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Greetings, thank you for your help on the Mitchell L.R. Walker page. There is a note at the top of the Mitchell L.R. Walker page that I'd like removed. I think it should be removed because I've removed promotional information. I also updated the wiki Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering page with his information. I don't know who created that page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology_-_Daniel_Guggenheim_School_of_Aerospace_Engineering but it had the interim chair and now it has the current chair. Please tell me if I need to do anything else to the page to have the note removed. Thank you, again. Monique Waddell (talk) 17:22, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ldm1954. I am wondering what you meant by "significant statements" when you left the following comment on our draft: "You need to include sources to verify all significant statements, including his prior positions. He might be notable enough, but the page needs to be fixed first to meet Wikipedia to verification standards." Please let me know where exactly -- preferably down to the word -- sources are needed. Thank you. E00nyc (talk) 19:02, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Read the relevant pages WP:NPROF, WP:V, WP:MOS. It is not my job to tell you what to do, also read WP:BURDEN. Ldm1954 (talk) 19:15, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Ldm1954,

thank you for your helpful critique and advice concerning the Draft:Hajo_Leschke. I have resubmitted a revised and extended version (now including many references) to resolve issues. For clarification please read the following comments:

• I have not chosen the "5 to 10 best" publications of Leschke, because, I think, this can be done seriously only by himself or, better, by the scientific community. Therefore I decided to chose (now) 10 "selected publications since 2000". They appeared in rather prestigious journals and, as it happened, I am quite familiar with most of them, see the new section "Selected research achievements". He also has an invited contribution to the Memorial Volume for Harold Widom (1932–2021) (see [14] in the resubmission).

• The total citation number of the 10 publications is about 450 according to Google Scholar and the newest ones are just getting more and more citations, some of them being highly influential. If this number is considered to be "not high", it should be considered that the publication and citation rates are typically higher in experimental than in theoretical/mathematical physics. Moreover, many theoretical physicists have the annoying tendency to ignore rigorous results for a long time as being either "obvious" or as "too mathematical". In contrast, the value of rigorous results in theoretical physics can hardly be overestimated, because they may confirm or rule out promising intuitive ideas and numerical computations. Nevertheless, to this day Roger Penrose is the only mathematical physicist having received the Nobel Prize in physics (2020).

• Leschke's early awards Studienstiftung and Siemers-Preis (prize) are not routine funding because one cannot apply for it oneself.

• I know that Leschke did not accept offers to become "head of department" or "chief editor of a journal", because he considered himself not to be efficient enough for such mainly administrative jobs. Two exceptions: He was a dedicated member of the advisory board of the Annalen der Physik and in charge of the physics library of the FAU for more than a decade.

• Leschke is well established in the international community of mathematical physicists which includes the famous Michael Aizenman, Abel Klein, Elliott H. Lieb, Leonid A. Pastur, and Barry Simon (his MathSciNet-collaboration distance to each of them is "2"). His work is cited not only in scientific journals, but also in many textbooks or monographs, for example in:
  • Gert Roepstorff: Path-integral approach to quantum physics 1994
  • Barry Simon: Functional integration and quantum physics, 2nd edition 2005
  • Konstantin Efetov: Supersymmetry in disorder and chaos 1997
  • Fritz Haake: Quantum signatures of chaos, 2nd edition 2001
  • Georg Junker: Supersymmetric methods in quantum, statistical physics and solid state physics, 2nd edition 2019
  • Peter Stollmann: Caught by disorder–Bound states in random media 2001
  • Victor Chulaevsky and Yuri Shulov: Multi-scale analysis for random quantum systems with interaction 2014
  • Michael Aizenman and Simone Warzel: Random Operators–Disorder effects on quantum spectra and dynamics 2015
  • Toufik Mansour and Matthias Schork: Commutation relations, normal ordering, and Stirling numbers 2016
  • Thomas L. Curtright, David B. Fairlie, and Cosmas K. Zachos: A concise treatment on quantum mechanics in phase space 2019

My summary:

Leschke is clearly more successful and accomplished in research and teaching than an "average professor" and has gained the international notability required to justify an entry in the English Wikipedia.

Best regards, Cptcall Cptcall (talk) 12:06, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Posting here does not do anything to help make him verifiably notable. Information must be on the page, and cannot include WP:PEACOCK (bragging). It does not matter, for instance, why he did not become dept head or who cited him. Please carefully read both WP:BURDEN and WP:NPROF.

N.B., it appears that you know him. Please see read WP:COI, that is important. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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You are an emiretus professor of Physics. Can you explain how a well accepted Philisophical Position like Mathematical Platonism and thus listing established Notable Platonists doesnt meet Notability Transhumanistnerd0 (talk) 12:06, 28 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your note on Draft talk:Phil Casey. I was going through articles at Category:Articles with a promotional tone from January 2025 and saw the article, I should have slowed down and made sure you were finished to avoid confusion. (Normally nobody is working on articles tagged promotional in real time.) 🄻🄰 23:08, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, conflicts happen. I think we have the same view about that page. Ldm1954 (talk) 23:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing the link to the category so your page doesn't show up as having promotional content lol! Yes, I think DRAFT is the right place for the article unless it gets deleted. Thank you for being understanding! 🄻🄰 06:33, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Ldm1954, I saw your AFC comment for Draft:Jill L. McNitt-Gray and she seems to pass WP:NPROF via criteria #3 (Fellow for the American Society of Biomechanics in 2013 and two others) and #5 (Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering). Not sure if the awards she received would count towards #2 but she seems to clear academic notability with #3 and #5. Agree article could use some cleanup. Also, should I have written this on the article talk page or perhaps under your comment? Not exactly sure what's best. Nnev66 (talk) 17:14, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The talk page is probably better, but since you started here I will respond. I personally would be reserved about the Gabilan since C5 is way too vague and unclear, plus it is a limited time chair which I think is not exactly what C5 is for. The FASB is also not so clearcut since they have a membership of ~1000 from their 2023 report, which is small. I cannot find anything for National Academy of Kinesiology membership. The combined weight of her (important) awards might make it, particularly the IOC, but first I think the WP:MILL such as getting an NSF grant (everyone does) or USC awards (too local) should be removed. Her area is too far from my expertise so I only left a comment rather than actually reviewing it, and I only rarely will edit AfC that I am also reviewing. Ldm1954 (talk) 17:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found the following about the two awards McNitt-Gray received in an article with a section about a woman named Doris Miller: Pioneering women of the International Society of Biomechanics:

Of the 19 recipients of the Jim Hay Award since 2004, only one other woman, Jill McNitt-Gray, has received this prestigious award. In 1993 Miller was awarded the Geoffrey Dyson Lecturer award, the most prestigious award of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS). Since it was first awarded in 1987, only six females (17.1 %) have received this annual honour.

In the acknowledgment section of the article, the author thanks McNitt-Gray for feedback so it isn't completely independent, but suggests these awards are considered important in the field of Biomechanics. In any event, I think I can make modest improvements to the draft when I have time. Thanks for your perspective. I may add my thoughts about notability on the talk page as well. Nnev66 (talk) 20:47, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good. While I am also retired it is only recent so I still have enough research to keep me too busy. Ldm1954 (talk) 21:17, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This article has significant problems. Please consider moving it back to draft. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:02, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@UtherSRG, I agree that it has format problems, but in my opinion these are moderately minor, certainly by comparison to many others. Sorry but I dont see the peacock although I do agree with you about the sources for his career -- I meant to tag that but forgot. Note that he flies through WP:NPROF on both #C1 & #C2.

My opinion is leave it with the tags and let the editor clean it up. If they don't in a reasonable time frame (2 weeks?) then draftify. Of course you can draftify yourself if you want, I wont edit war. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@UtherSRG, N.B., maybe a bit of newbie nurturing is needed here. The original editor is a new one, enthusiastically creating some BLP drafts with an unconventional format. I left them a note on their talk page and a link to Starry Grandma's guide which I like. Please add to their talk page if you feel that would be useful, everyone makes mistakes at first. Ldm1954 (talk) 14:48, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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