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Eszter Hargittai

Improperly (in my opinion this is apparently disputed) speedied under CSD:A7 now listed for due process  ALKIVAR™ 01:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, Notable internet sociologist interviewed by the BBC and CNNfn. Quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, BBC News, and Wired Magazine. Mentioned in US Senate during hearings on the PROTECT Act of 2003. Considered one of the prominent experts on "the Internet and its social effects" which I believe (have to check) was the subject of her dissertation for her Princeton Ph.D in Sociology. Currently a professor at Northwestern University and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at that university.  ALKIVAR™ 01:15, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete being interviewed or quoted doesn't make one notable, getting a scholarship doesn't make one notable. Being an adjunct professor is not notable. This person is on a tenure-track, and when she gets there maybe that will be notable. Ruby 02:35, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Keep - I'd disagree: being interviewed or quoted DOES make one notable. You seem to be suggesting, Ruby, that for academics the ONLY measure of notability is tenure. I'd disagree; it's only one measure. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 03:14, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Comment Not to be a WikiLawyer or anything, but the guide for notability says, "Professors are not notable unless they have made significant contributions to their field of interest." This is a high bar to clear. The contributions of Eszter Hargittai seem to consist of writing a dissertation on the internet and being the media's on-call expert on internet issues. Now if she had invented the internet like Al Gore that would be a horse of a different color. Ruby 03:26, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I'd disagree with a reading of those guidelines that implies that professors have to clear a higher bar than non-professors. To clarify, I don't think she clears the notability bar by very much, but I think she clears it. The article in its current state is way too vanity, though. —Matthew Brown (T:C) 03:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete one interview does not make you notable. --Pboyd04 03:23, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep A fairly close call but quite a lot on Google Scholar and the media stuff just about tips the balance for me. Dlyons493 Talk 03:47, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Arbustoo 04:10, 21 January 2006 (UTC)