Talk:Mark Bowen (writer)

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DoB

About 2005, in the American Scientist interview i lk'd, he said he'd climbed for 25 years. If he started at age 15, he was born 1965. So 1960s is a decent guess. Undergrad degree date would give us a much better one.
--Jerzy•t 18:20, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"A decent guess" is a slang expresssion for "the most reasonable estimate available at this time", and such an estimate is valuable, as long as it's labeled as such (that's what "c.", for "circa" does, widely in WP), both for improved confidence in identifying him and for putting him a little more in context (e.g., helping us speculate on how long a career he has left).
--Jerzy•t 18:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think WP:NOR is clear on this sort of thing. --Dweller (talk) 20:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ProD

ProD-tagger said

No special evidence of notability presented. Strongest claim (climbing Kilimanjaro) is interesting, but doesn't really convey notability.

Creator's responses:

- Against notability: Kilimanjaro confers no notability per se: i've drastically out-climbed a younger guy who did it, and i am far from notability as a climber.

- For notability: This is a stub, and a one-month old one. I created it (without being sure if he has sufficient notability), bcz of the topics he writes on, the doctoral-level expertise he brings to the relevant science, and the charisma he brings to the climate debate by having personally inspected K's retreating glaciers.

Nom this bio for AfD, if you care too. My hope is that 6 months or a year will build the article up to where keeping it is a no brainer, but any AfD debate will bring forth more concrete evidence, quicker, and probably a good decision. The article certainly deserves more consideration than to disappear on a ProD.
--Jerzy•t 18:21, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK. It'd have been more constructive if you'd just improved the article, but ho hum. Off to AfD we go. --Dweller (talk) 20:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]