Talk:Fundamentals Of Stack Gas Dispersion

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Beychok's Cover.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The image is free content and the above tag is invalid

After I questioned the use of the above tag at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, User:TEB728 removed the two tags from the image page and all is well now. It was all a big mistake and the GFDL license that I selected when I uploaded the book cover image (which I created myself) is correct. - mbeychok (talk) 06:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of this book

This book was first published 29 years ago in 1979 and it is now in its fourth edition.

  • It has been purchased in 60 countries worldwide (see here).
  • It has been cited in the technical literature and on the Internet over 130 times (see here), including being used in environmental protection regulatory documents issued by various governmental agencies in the U.S. as well other nations. It has been used as a textbook or as recommended reading at 18 universities in the U.S. as well as other countries.
  • It has been purchased by over 60 libraries in the U.S. and over 80 libraries in other countries (see [http://www.air-dispersion.com/interest.html#Libraries here). I say "over ..." because many libraries purchase through bookstores and I have no way of determining the ultimate disposition of books sold to bookstores.

A great many professionals working in the field of air pollution dispersion modeling are well acquainted with the book.

Admittedly, I am the author of the book. However, in my opinion, the above facts speak for the notability of the book.

You may easily verify the above facts by reading the links provided above. You may also read my user page to verify that I have been contributor of a many, many technical articles to Wikipedia.

For the reasons given in this posting, I am removing the notability tag. - mbeychok (talk) 03:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC)