Talk:Caroline H Thompson

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Sam,

Sorry for the late reply, you are most welcome to post the articles you mentioned.

Good luck and by all means let us know if you need to use any more.

Cheers,

Daniel Thompson

Caroline's work is fundamentally important for theoretical physics. The fact she is published in arXiv attests to the level of respect held for her. She was, what I call, a cross-over physicist. Her original training was in computer science, but because of her fresh perspective - made great strides in physics. ..I have read the "WP:NOT" page and believe I understand it. This is NOT a memorial page for Caroline. It is NOT a soap-box for her or me.. I believe "time will tell" the importance of Caroline's work. And it will be in WP's interests to keep "her" here. &Delta 01:55, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Please reflect that in the article. Instead of giving a link to a search engine improve the article by giving specific 3rd party citations and sources to assert her notability. As it stands her and her work may be notable but that is not shown in the article. Give referenced links to anything she may have published. At the moment the article IS just a memorial to her work as it does not make her notability or her excellence clear to the reader. It is written as a POV rather than as a encyclopaedic article. The whole point of an article such as this is to show her 'talents' up front and not make the reader work by having to track them down themselves. WebHamster
  • thanks for the attention.. arxiv is not a search engine - it's an academic repository for published scientists. if a reader clicks on that link (the arxiv link), they find the 8 published papers authored by her at arxiv. any explanation of her noteworthyness, in my opinion, is simply that - and belongs on the discussion page (here). her research speaks for itself (one must be versed in the language of physics to understand and appreciate her work). everything is a point-of-view but scientists try to remain objective with multiple points of view minimizing bias. if the article is allowed to remain, i'm sure there will be many ppl who can find those "3rd party refs" better than me.. &Delta 02:30, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
It certainly needs a rewrite to meet Wiki stadards. It's 3:30am here so unless someone else does so in the meantime I'll have a go at it tomorrow. WebHamster 02:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC)