[CODE4LIB] Wikipedia notability (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey)

2014-09-22 Thread Stuart Yeates
I'm currently spending a chunk of time attempting to balance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_academics for recentism, gender imbalance and racial imbalance, creating >100 biographies so far. I can tell you that google scholar is a really crappy measure once you move outside

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-21 Thread Karen Coyle
Ed - I don't know why, but that sounds quite defensive. If your CV emphasizes speaking engagements and writings, then what you have written is relevant. But please look at the notability suggestions for Wikipedia for people and for academics before focusing on that one piece of information. I b

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Perhaps this topic could be taken up in another thread? -Mike On Sep 20, 2014 4:22 PM, "Edward M. Corrado" wrote: > I don't know anything about the lawsuit or what has transpired to cause it, > but since when does an H-index score make one a notable librarian? Many > notable librarians don't pub

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Riley Childs
ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey I don't know anything about the lawsuit or what has transpired to cause it, but since when does an H-index score make one a notabl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Edward M. Corrado
I don't know anything about the lawsuit or what has transpired to cause it, but since when does an H-index score make one a notable librarian? Many notable librarians don't publish anything at all. Edward On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Lisa Rabey
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is > extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and > not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is > that men

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Karen Coyle
Roy, this is pretty much in line with what I said, below: "shameless self-promotion" can be seen as a plus or at least not a minus for men, but few women would have replied the way you did. It does make you wonder how much more visible women would be if self-promotion were more culturally accep

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Roy Tennant
Just a minor point. Despite my relative index score it doesn't necessarily mean that I am not a shameless self-promoter, it may just mean I've been at it longer. Just sayin'. Roy > On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > > Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time read

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Karen Coyle
Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard of this "famous" librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference circuit than he is.) I also was interested because I've recently