User talk:Jda

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Deletion of Melanie Mitchell article

I deleted it under the conditions of WP:CSD A7, an article about a person which does not assert the importance or significance of its subject. At the time that I deleted the article, it stated she is a professor at Portland State University. Other than that, there was no claim to any sort of notability. There is still some debate regarding the notability of professors as to whether simply being a professor in and of itself is notable enough. Generally speaking, from what I've seen of the debate, there doesn't appear to be a lot of support for the being a professor as being notable enough by itself. You can view some of the debate at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for inclusion of biographies/Academics. I would suggest to you that if you recreate the article that you include information regarding her being a leading researcher in her field and cite references to support that claim. Simply stating it of course is insufficient. Contrast with Douglas Hofstadter. All the best, --Durin 20:22, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]