Talk:Accounting Hall of Fame

Notability of award and its inductees

This award is essentially the Turing Prize equivalent for the field of accounting research. I believe it is the most prestigious award in accounting, and that it is the first accounting award program listed in wikipedia, while, for comparison, the fields of economics and financial economics research share about 17 awards listed in wikipedia. (See Category: Economics awards.) The initial stub of this article was marked for deletion, in part as the list at first consists of mostly red-links, because as yet very few of the most important accounting researchers have been covered in wikipedia. It is essential for asserting the notability of individual accounting academics, however, for this article to be retained.

To respond to the specific criticisms:

• This article appears to be little more than a collection of red links. That will be addressed over time, by creating articles for each of these individually notable individuals. Very few accountants or accounting academics are yet listed in wikipedia. Also, some of the red-links will be corrected by locating pre-existing articles. The current listing uses full middle names, so, for example, at first the article for Robert S. Kaplan was not found.
• The few names that do have articles created are mainly stubs. The pre-existing articles linked so far have, however, survived notability challenges as being notable persons, which goes to showing the notability of the award overall.
• The notability of this organization is by no means asserted. Has been addressed by explicit assertions in the article.

As I have responded to the criticisms, and as the instructions indicate that I can remove the deletion tag (I don't see any prohibition for the original author of the article to remove it), I am doing that. doncram (talk) 01:08, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not convinced by any means. All we have to go on is 1) the OSU web site, which is not an independent sources, and 2) your say-so. There's no other verification from independent, reliable sources. Moreover, the individuals listed will need more than just inclusion in this hall to prove their notability. I'm taking this to AfD. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 08:36, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, let me take that back about the Turing Prize, as I am not really familiar with that prize's context. And, having this award covered in wikipedia is not essential for asserting notability of the individuals in articles that would be appropriate about them. However, I do know that the list of persons covered by the Accounting Hall of Fame includes extremely well-regarded academics, and the non-academics covered seem to be very notable persons as well. And by comparison to awards listed in Category: Economics awards, covering this award is not out of line as a first one to cover accounting. One has to start somewhere. doncram (talk) 16:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I am in the process of creating a page for one of the members in the Hall. These members are often prominent accounting academics, practitioners, or standard setters on the Financial Accounting Standards Board or the International Accounting Standards Board. Also note that the Accounting Historians Journal covers the induction ceremony. I think the article is generally worthwhile.H.al-shawaf (talk) 00:46, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

Whether people who have been elected to the Hall of Fame are notable is irrelevant in deciding whether the Hall of Fame itself is notable. Meters (talk) 01:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)