Talk:Melanie Wood

message: I don't think one paper is enough to make a mathematician notable, unless that paper was remarkable itself.
Have any other published papers cited the one written by Melanie Wood? Google scholar gives 3 citations, one of which one is a preprint. I've  nominated this article to be checked for its importance tagged this article as not establishing the notability of its subject. Maybe there's something I'm missing. Joeldl 15:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As clearly mentioned in the lead, she has set numerous firsts as a woman in mathematics. This has led to media coverage which is more extensive for something like this than you might expect, as partly indicated by some of the external links. If you Google her you will see some more, although there is some MAA stuff I can't seem to find online. --C S (Talk) 19:13, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Who would you say is an academic who has been the subject of an AfD debate and was kept, and is less notable or equally notable to Melanie Wood? Joeldl 21:19, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can try to AFD this article (I'm getting a strong feeling you have an urge to do so), but I'm certain it will be an overwhelming keep. There are much less notable people kept daily on Wikipedia, if that's what you wanted to know. The bar for inclusion is not very high. See WP:Notability for example. It's clear that Melanie Wood meets it, so I think it's highly doubtful an AFD would result in a delete. --C S (Talk) 22:01, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

text: By the way, you are trying to compare someone who is notable for being an academic to one who is notable for having been in the press (mostly for her math competitive resuls). A simple way to put it is that the set of people on Wikipedia ordered by "notability" is a poset. For example, who is more notable: a guy famous for eating a lot of hotdogs or the inventor of an artificial heart? --C S (Talk) 22:16, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that people who have been widely mentioned in the press for minor achievements are acceptable. "Takeru Kobayashi" "hot dog" gets 38,000 hits on google, not to mention that there might be hits in Japanese I'm not getting. I've seen reports on TV about this guy, and in the mainstream press. "Melanie Wood" "math" gets 540 hits, and the publications mentioned seem marginal, especially the Duke University thing. They are not widely read. I think that the point is that for academics, the bar is set much lower for public name recognition. If a person doesn't qualify as an academic or for another special reason, you can include them for "being famous", but it seems doubtful to me whether that's the case here. Joeldl 12:17, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
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message: That doesn't make sense. I can't fix it myself because I don't know any facts of the case so I don't know what it's supposed to say. Somebody with the facts, please fix the English?
198.144.192.45 (talk) 22:15, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It means she's also very keen on breaking other types of records, if you know what i mean >P... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.129.220 (talk) 05:28, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: she is devotes a lot of time

message: So she was a "math whiz"? The language-related definitions in whiz are: Slang for urination ("take a whiz") and British slang for amphetamines. Neither does fit in the context. 85.217.47.2 (talk) 14:05, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
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