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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Hayford Peirce (talk | contribs) at 03:35, 5 August 2004 (what means "several best-selling books"?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Non-notable person, ludicrous article. RickK 22:12, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

  • Comment. Well, he wrote 'The Physics of Star Trek', quite a popular and famous book. Not sure if he's done anything else notable, but perhaps with a major overhaul, this article could be acceptable. Darksun 22:19, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • He's written about a dozen books, he's the chair of a major physics department, he's been a science writer & commentator in the mass media for about ten years, and he's coauthored over 200 papers (checked his uni's webpage[1]). The article needs a lot of work, but he's notable- Keep. -FZ 22:40, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, a poor stub but a notable person. - SimonP 00:47, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Clean up, clean up, clean up on aisle 5! Keep it only, and I mean only, if it's cleaned. The guy is a major popularizer of science. He has been a happy radio contributor and a spokesman, and it's better by far to have nothing at all that to have this. If it's not expanded after clean up, I think we're better off deleting and waiting for a new article. Geogre 01:03, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • I'd lay money on this article appearing due to Scientific American running a Q&A with him in the August 2004 issue. -- Cyrius|✎ 01:18, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Even more so now that I checked the page history where it's explicitly stated :) -- Cyrius|✎ 01:18, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • OK, I did some work on it, it's (hopefully) looking a little better now. Could still do with cleaning up, and expanding if possible. But should be a keep now. Darksun 08:21, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. --Palapala 09:24, 2004 Aug 4 (UTC)
  • Keep, notable based on books and the work as a popularizer of science (possibly notable on other aspects as well, but those are enough). Andris 09:30, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, a good clean-up job. - TB
  • Keep, I guess. But I wonder exactly what "several best-selling books" means? More than 2? More than 3? Why not give the exact number? Looking at the list of books he's written, I can't believe that any of them except the two Star Trek books could possibly have been bestsellers. And in any case, who says even those two were bestsellers? Hayford Peirce 03:35, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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