Talk:Lists of Massachusetts Institute of Technology people

message: Should this list be replaced or paralleled by a category?  18.26.0.18 20:47, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: I just noticed a prank entry, "Michael Beregovsky, Women's Studies." I think it's a prank, anyway, as the MIT online directory believes that Michael Beregovsky is a fourth-year math major.
Seems to me that entries for people that do not have Wikipedia articles should be required to be accompanied by a source citation, per verifiability policy, that at least shows that these people a) exist, and b) are actually on the MIT faculty. Dpbsmith (talk) 21:26, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source citations? 

message: Not trying to get trigger-happy here, but the following person does not seem to be listed in the MIT online directory at all:
*Ascher Shapiro, mechanical engineering
A spelling error?
**(Blush) No, here's why he's not in the directory: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/obit-shapiro.html. Sorry. How very embarrassing. This list consists mostly, but obviously not exclusively of living people.
The following have listings that do NOT identify them as "Institute Professor" or "Institute Professor Emeritus":
*Arthur von Hippel, EECS (listed as "Professor Emeritus")
*Thomas Magnanti, EECS and management (Listed as "Dean/Faculty")
*Ascher Shapiro, mechanical engineering
*John Waugh, chemistry (listed as "Professor Emeritus")
I don't know how carefully the online list is maintained... the press release cited above indicates that von Hippel has been an Institute Professor since 1998. I'm assuming that when an Institute Professor achieves emeritus status he is automatically an Institute Professor Emeritus, i.e. it's not even thinkable that he could have been downgraded from Institute Professor to Just-Plain-Old-Professor Emeritus. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:02, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Institute Professor list anomalies 

message: I have removed this entry from the list of Institute Professors:
*Michael Beregovsky, women's right activist
This is because the online directory listing,  indicates that he is not an Institute Professor nor even on the faculty at all, but is a 4th-year math major. 
Please do not reinsert without including a verifiable source citation, per the verifiability policy, showing that Michael Beregovsky is in fact an Institute Professor. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:31, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Beregovsky 

message: The article titled Institute Professor has been nominated for deletion by user:Kane5187, who says not all of the 10-or-12-or-so Institute Professors are notable.  This while many MIT professors who are not Institute Professors have Wikipedia articles and are universally considered notable (and so do most of the Institute Professors).  Please opine at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Institute Professor.  Your input is needed! Michael Hardy 00:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Institute Professor" nominated for deletion

message: All the lists were long and impenetrable, so this revision is my stab at making everything more organized and understandable. However I have noticed considerable overlap between the "Notable Alumni", "Notable Professors", and "Institute Professors." Is there a hierarchy to be followed or should each group represent a complete set even with overlap?Madcoverboy 07:24, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories & Overlap