Talk:Sergey Macheret

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Relating to edits regarding violations of the BLP policy

Why is it that this page has been semi-protected and previous edits removed under BLP policy violation? There has been reporting on the allegations and Purdue itself have placed the professor on leave according to that source. ComputerLem (talk) 16:12, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Because Wikipedia policy is that, apart from a few specific circumstances, we don't report allegations of criminality which have not been tested in court. On this occasion I believe (though I am open to correction) that the person in question has not even been charged, let alone tried. JBW (talk) 16:32, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JBW I see. Thank you for the explanation! ComputerLem (talk) 16:34, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2024

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In response to the stated need for 2 citations in Career section, here are the two references citing the original source (AIAA). https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/bulletin/february-2022-aiaa-bulletin/ https://www.aiaa.org/news/news/2022/06/03/aiaa-to-present-technical-excellence-awards-at-the-2022-aiaa-aviation-forum SciPhysEng (talk) 19:04, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done I added both of these sources, thanks. Jamedeus (talk) 00:16, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for deletion

As the article's subject, I'd like to request that the article be deleted. Here are the reasons:

This BLP article is already designated as low-importance one. Indeed, although I have made contributions to my field, numerous individuals who have made much more significant and impactful contributions do not have their Wikipedia pages. Although I have been elected a Fellow of AIAA, my professional society, overwhelming majority of other AIAA Fellows and Fellows of other societies do not have Wikipedia pages. As specific examples, here are several people in my field who are much more famous, have much higher citation counts, are Fellows of one or more professional societies and Members of the highly prestigious National Academy of Engineering (of which I am not a Member), and have no Wikipedia pages: Prof. Richard B. Miles, Texas A&M University (formerly of Princeton U.), Prof. Mark J. Kushner (U. of Michigan), Prof. Graham Candler (U. of Minnesota), Prof. Alexander A. Fridman (Drexel U.). In short, I believe that my notability is too low for a Wikipedia BLP article.
My notoriety stems from the single offence described in the current article as Legal Issues. However, all that notoriety is due to initial police-made accusations of dealing drugs, which was immediately interpreted by the media as a real-life case of "Breaking Bad" TV series. When these bogus accusations of drug dealing disappeared (they were never filed in court rather than "dropped") and only a misdemeanor offence remained, national and international media immediately lost all interest. Only local media, i.e. a student-run newspaper, a small-town newspaper, and a local TV station reported on the developments since then. As it is, the offence certainly does not rise to the Wikipedia level.

Thus, as a low-profile person, I see no reason for a BLP article about me. SMacheret (talk) 20:59, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]