Talk:Leonid Berlyand

Creation

Created new page with Berlyand's biography; most of information taken from his page on the PennState site.--Asimsky (talk) 20:08, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

and therein lies the problem...Wikipedia has essentially no interest in anything that a subject says or wants to say about itself: it is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject have published about it, in reliable places. There are no secondary sources which discuss him yet? Theroadislong (talk) 09:37, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

I will work on it; give me some time. My reasoning was that his site in Penn State is not his personal site. The University is responsible for it and would not allow false information. So I saw the site of Penn State as a reliable source. The publications in peer-reviewed journals can also give an objective idea about the scientific profile of a person - as long as you can make sense of it - I do partly being a physicist. But in any case I will look for additional 3rd party sources.--Asimsky (talk) 11:57, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

I have an error, which, probably, contributed to the negative impression: the link confirming Berlyand's honorary professorship was incorrect due to a copy/paste error. Now this is fixed, and I have also added a few independent sources. I hope it is sufficient; at this point I can't add more (may be I could look for a confirmation of grants?). This is what I have now to support notability:

• Honorary professorship at the Univ. of Moscow confirmed with a report of the seminar where he gave a talk. The report talks about him in the tone of high appreciation and he stands in a photo with a medal (they give a diploma and a medal). The report also contains the formulation of his achievements, which I have partly quoted. This can definitely be counted as a prestigious international award, which alone would be sufficient for admission to Wikipedia (right?). I also included a Twitter post of the PSU, which covers the award and clearly states that the award is prestigious (given to Nobel Prize winners etc).
• Berlyand is a managing editor of one scientific journal and a member of the editorial board with two others (one of the two was stopped in 1916). Being a managing editor of a well-established journal is also a significant notability factor, which, even alone, could made him eligible (or I read something incorrectly in the list of notability criteria for academics?).
• The link to a press release which publicizes one of his mathematical results in homogenization (item 2 of "External Links").
• I included a reference to a Ph.D. thesis and a conference paper from another University which is fully based on the use of Berlyand's concept "transfer-of-aproximation" (Xin Wang). This is also an independent source.
• Membership in professional associations.
• Site of the brain concussion center at the PSU includes independent information regarding his grants and visiting positions.
• I added confirmation of some of the grants from public sites.

Could you please re-consider the amended paper? I hope that at least notability is now clarified.--Asimsky (talk) 22:30, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

By the way, the article is popular: 70 views per day--Asimsky (talk) 09:44, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

I added so much independent evidence of notability that I feel I can dare to remove the tags. I asked those who placed the tags to review and re-assess the article, but they did not respond so far... By all accounts I feel there is enough independent proofs for notability. Please use this discussion page to comment.--Asimsky (talk) 09:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)