Talk:L. Stephen Coles

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This article was nominated for deletion on 11 November 2007. The result of the discussion was No Consensus.

[edit] Ph.D.

According to his deleted MySpace blog, I believe he said he has a Ph.D. in computer information systems, not systems and communication sciences. Same thing different wording? I'd prefer the former. Neal 21:15, 9 November 2007 (UTC).

The current bibliography of L. Stephen Coles is much improved over an earlier version. Because of questions about the accuracy of the earlier version, I sent a copy of a recent version to him on 11/15/07, and asked him if there were any inaccuracies in it. His response was, "It's OK, but two patents and over 100 papers in the scientific literature. -- Steve Coles." I have not attempted to verify his exceptions to the current version. Note that he did not volunteer this information, but that I requested it in order to ensure that there were no serious inaccuracies in the Wikipedia edition. Some personal information has been added since the version I sent him. StanPrimmer (talk) 03:53, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Searching scientific databases such as PubMed and Web of Science renders much fewer publications. PubMed lists 36 articles by "Coles_LS" (several of them by a person with an Australian address, almost certainly another person). Web of Science (searching for "cited references", which includes citations to articles/book chapters that themselves are not included in this database and therefore renders the most complete results) lists 50 items (some of them variants due to errors in page numbers and such and others from the above mentioned Australian LS Coles). "Over 100 papers" is either exaggerated or concerns publications in journals that are never cited by other scientific journals. --Crusio (talk) 13:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)