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[–]Mentalpopcorn 65 ポイント66 ポイント

I'll be surprised if this survives AFD

[–]OreoPriest 4 ポイント5 ポイント

It has a pile of reliable third-party sources. It will easily survive AFD if it even goes there.

[–]W1ULH 1 ポイント2 ポイント

couple of legit news agencies, some school publications (MelbU aint a bad cite!).... and fox

might get downchecked for fox.

[–]kylegetsspam 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Anyone can get on Wikipedia temporarily with sources. Doesn't mean he has enough of importance to stay there. "Being kind of popular of reddit" isn't exactly notable.

[–]OreoPriest 0 ポイント1 ポイント

"Being kind of popular of reddit" isn't exactly notable.

Then why did so many news outlets write about him?

[–]AlmostGrad100[S] 0 ポイント1 ポイント

It's already at AFD. :(

[–]DulcetFox -1 ポイント0 ポイント

I don't think it will go to AfD. I would make a bet but I have nothing to bet with.

[–]nihiltres 21 ポイント22 ポイント

It doesn't present an obvious notability problem because it's fairly well-sourced, but an argument could be made that his notability is transient, and thus that the article should be deleted under the one-event principle from the biographies of living persons policy.

I won't involve myself directly with the article on principle, since I consider myself biased against Unidan and thus have a minor conflict of interest. I have two reasons for this bias. One is the good reason of opposing celebrity worship, and the other is that when I answered a science question once, he came in later, said some incorrect and irrelevant stuff, and walked out with more karma overall.

(Edit: "thus" → "thus that" to clarify that I'm not advocating the argument but merely presenting it as an example.)

[–]ThereWillBeHugs 4 ポイント5 ポイント

the other is that when I answered a science question once, he came in later, said some incorrect and irrelevant stuff, and walked out with more karma overall.

This seems to be a major problem with all of the r/askcollegestudents subreddits.

[–]nihiltres 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Sorry, but do you mean that the problem originates with Unidan, or with "r/askcollegestudents subreddits"? You're a little ambiguous.

[–]Kerbobotat 4 ポイント5 ポイント

What incorrect stuff did he say?

[–]nihiltres 5 ポイント6 ポイント

Here's the post. I explained how carbon dating works. Unidan responded saying that nitrogen-15 is the isotope used for "this sort of thing", and related it to his own work. Nitrogen-15 is not related to carbon-dating as far as I can tell, nor its use in tracing nutrients through ecosystems. I asked Unidan about it, and he simply reiterated himself. For some context, nitrogen-15 is stable, so it doesn't really make sense to relate it to radioisotope dating, which relies on the steady rate of nuclear decay.

[–]Kerbobotat 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Hmm. 15 N is used in nutrient tracking from what I remember, mostly in marine environments, as it is widely distributed by salmon. I know little about radiocarbon dating, but perhaps it was just a case of two experts in different fields (You and Unidan) miscommunicating?

For what its worth, I enjoyed your explanation of how carbon dating works more than unidans two line sentence about nitrogen15.

[–]dhmmjoph 0 ポイント1 ポイント

I know very little about carbon dating, but this seems like a misunderstanding between you and /u/unidan. Your original comment mentions nitrogen twice, and it looks to me like Unidan was saying that Nitrogen-15 is the isotope of nitrogen which is converted into Carbon-14 in the atmosphere, and/or into which the carbon-14 decays after an organism dies.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: shoot, I replied to the wrong comment. The above is pasted in a reply to the correct comment as well.

[–]jarh1000 0 ポイント1 ポイント

The grad students I know don't have much time for accumulating karma. What also bothers me is that people ask him (an evolutionary biologist/behaviour/ecologist) about immunology and molecular biology.

[–]dhmmjoph 0 ポイント1 ポイント

I know very little about carbon d ating, but this seems like a misunderstanding between you and /u/unidan. Your original comment mentions nitrogen twice, and it looks to me like Unidan was saying that Nitrogen-15 is the isotope of nitrogen which is converted into Carbon-14 in the atmosphere, and/or into which the carbon-14 decays after an organism dies.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[–]dhmmjoph 0 ポイント1 ポイント

I know very little about carbon d ating, but this seems like a misunderstanding between you and /u/unidan. Your original comment mentions nitrogen twice, and it looks to me like Unidan was saying that Nitrogen-15 is the isotope of nitrogen which is converted into Carbon-14 in the atmosphere, and/or into which the carbon-14 decays after an organism dies.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[–]nihiltres 0 ポイント1 ポイント

Yeah, I'm afraid you're wrong. There is technically a path to create carbon-14 from nitrogen-15, but N-15 is only about 0.3% of all nitrogen: the vast majority of C-14 is produced from N-14. As for the second idea … decay involves losing particles and nitrogen-15 is more massive than carbon-14, i.e. that's ridiculous.

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    [–]nihiltres 3 ポイント4 ポイント

    > Great god * almighty

    You missed an opportunity to say "Great Scott!" there. If only you could go back in time to fix that mistake.

    Edit: For context, the now-deleted comment included the exclamation I quoted, with a note from the asterisk explaining that the use of "god" wasn't intended to be religious. My comment humorously offers a secular alternative.

    [–]DulcetFox 3 ポイント4 ポイント

    Vast majority of talkapges are blank, especially for new articles.

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      [–]Mentalpopcorn 3 ポイント4 ポイント