Talk:Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

nationality

The article indicates that she´s of persian/iranian origin, but there is no information about her origins or her nationality.--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 07:41, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

COI

I've tagged this article with {{COI}} as it appears Siamax (talk · contribs) has a close connection with the subject of this article. One of the references (Reihaneh Safavi-Naini at the Mathematics Genealogy Project) indicates that an individual named Siamax was a student of her's at the University of Wollongong. User Siamax, apart from having that name, has edited the page Wollongong (eg - this diff) and Crown Street, Wollongong (eg - this diff). This is highly suggestive of a conflict of interest in this subject. Mindmatrix 15:16, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Response to Mindmatrix (talk · contribs): According to {{COI}}'s usage guidelines, this tag should not be used "unless there are significant or substantial problems with the article's neutrality as a result of the contributor's involvement". The article merely mentions objective facts about the subject, so I do not see potential for bias. Also, I do not believe that de-anonymization of Wikipedia users is appropriate, and again citing {{COI}}'s usage guidelines, this tag should not be used "to "warn the reader" about the identities of the editors". So I first and foremost respectfully but strongly demand that statements about my identity (irrespective of them being true or false) be removed from the above notes, and secondly request the tag to be removed from the article. On the former request, I feel I have the right to remove these details about myself if they are not removed within two weeks. Thanks. --S I A M A X (talk) 12:26, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

First, I did not de-anonymize you; I specifically did not include your full name in my message, only the name "Siamax", which you've chosen as your username. The source I've linked to above is the same one you added to the article in November 2014. I've revealed nothing new that you haven't already posted on Wikipedia. If you disagree with this, you can post a message at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents citing your privacy concern. Mindmatrix 19:00, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

With all due respect Mindmatrix (talk · contribs), this argument that you have "revealed nothing new" that I "haven't already posted on Wikipedia" is a flawed argument since data aggregation is viewed as a violation of privacy. It is true that anyone can do this, but they have to go through the trouble of doing it, whereas you are serving this information on a plate here. As an example: if someone follows a subject all day in public places and posts their daily activities in a compact form, they are not revealing anything more than what the subject has revealed about themselves, but (I hope you agree that) they are violating the subject's privacy. So I request removing the information about my identity from the above. --S I A M A X (talk) 11:29, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

Second, the article exists solely because it was created by someone who appears to be an ex-student of hers (and also edited by someone, Dangus123 (talk · contribs), who has never edited any other article). That's bias. (If you disagree, we can open a broader discussion at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard.) Moreover, there don't appear to be any third-party references I can find about this person that suggest she meets Wikipedia's notability requirements, or that satisfy the reference requirements for biographies of living persons. (See Google News results and Google Books results, for instance. There are no news results, and book results are those she has edited or been cited by, none actually discuss her or her research specifically.) I'm not disputing that the article is written in a neutral tone; I agree that it is. It's the other concerns that need to be addressed. (Note that the article has three tags - about conflict of interest, more sources needed, and lack of inline citations; nobody has added the {{tone}} tag to this article.)

Frankly, unless reliable third-party references are added to the article, it should be taken to Articles for deletion for discussion. Mindmatrix 19:00, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Try a prod and see what happens. Xxanthippe (talk) 00:35, 13 January 2017 (UTC).

I have no objection to the article being deleted or nominated for deletion, but please remove information about my identity asap because lack of notability and reference requirements would be sufficient reasons for deletion. --S I A M A X (talk) 11:29, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

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