Talk:Dragan Marušič

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Marusic has no preprints listed on the arXiv and I've certainly never seen any papers by him, hence my nomination. AFAIK, the Zois award has nothing to do with mathematics. Is is possible that some patrioc Slovenian is attempting to populate Wikipidea with biographies of less than notable Slovenians? Or maybe, since this is likely only to annoy people, even some anti-Slovenian?---CH (talk) 23:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This article does assert notability by mention of getting awards and founding theories, so IMHO this isn't a speedy. I would suggest VfD for this one. JYolkowski // talk 01:24, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

J, I really don't get it. As far as I can see, someone wrote a biography about Marusic on the grounds of alleged professional merit, but as far as I can see, the award has nothing to do with mathematics at all! I.e. it is apparently not awarded by a major mathematical society. Are we to encourage proud parents of every high school athlete who has ever won a minor trophy to create a biography? If I get an award from a local Kiwanis Club, should I create a biographical article about myself? I don't think so!

The article states He is the founder of an algebraic graph theory and a theory of permutation groups in Slovenia. That doesn't even have proper diction in mathtalk, so I don't think it could possibly have been written by a mathematically literate person, regardless of their native language.

I think that biographies about persons whose apparent claim to Wikipedia fame is that they are a research mathematician should contain links to at least one article about at least one specific achievement of this individual in the field of mathematics, or at least a brief description of a major achievement. For example, see the biography of W. T. Tutte which I moved into this category because everyone who has read a book on algebraic graph theory (I've read two) would know Tutte's name and some of his contributions to the field. The articles I am objecting to have no such explanations, and as I said I have not heard of these three persons and can't find any evidence of notable mathematical achievements by any of them. Surely simply earning a Ph.D. doesn't really count; thousands of people earn Ph.D.s in mathematics around the world every year; are we to try to include biographies of all of them? Surely that would be absurd!---CH (talk) 17:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Vote for Deletion[edit]

This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 06:10, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Whew! Thanks to everyone who offered their thoughts. This was my first VfD experience and I learned alot.

I have slightly reorganized the article to put a description of research first. First explain why X is interesting! Only then describe childhood, current affiliation, honors. At the end add some links to more information about X and citations to a representative important paper/book by X. This seems to be a fairly standard for the typical biography on Wikipedia. Can our expert plez add some more informaton about M's contribs and verify that I was correct in replacing "functionality of graphs" with (group) "action on graphs"? TIA ---CH (talk) 18:28, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I made significant changes in terms of organising and adding to the information that was provided about Dragan. Full disclosure: I have been a co-author on two papers with him, as our areas of research overlap. I personally do think that his notability does stem more from his work in advancing mathematics in general, and algebraic graph theory in particular, in Slovenia, than from any one result. Nonetheless, after reading the VfD discussion I reinstated (with the reference provided by Tomo) a brief description of one of his notable results. - Joymwmorris (talk) 00:35, 22 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Picture[edit]

I also took a picture of Marušič on the occasion of stepping down as rector. I see that I'm a few minutes late on uploading, as someone else beat me to adding a picture. I'll put both pictures here for comparison for the time being. (I kind of like mine because of the occasion, though the other's a better picture.) I guess the unused picture should be removed from Commons after some time. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:52, 27 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dragan Marušič
Dragan Marušič in 2019, on the occasion of stepping down from being rector