Talk:List of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute people

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Redlinking[edit]

Red names on this list are not recommended. Quantity doesn't beat quality. Also, please only add professors with respectable wikipedia articles.

Categories[edit]

Should RPI people be placed into 2 or more categories? For example, Truman H. Aldrich could go in the "Invention & Engineering" and "Politics and public service" categories. (RCX 23:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Hmm.. I guess we could, but only if absolutely necessary. . The people should be sorted for what they are best known for. However, even if they are not best known for it, being a representative is notable, so it is hard to say. The only other one that strikes me as belonging to two categories is William H. Wiley who was both a representative and businessman. Danski14(talk) 05:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not on list yet[edit]

Other politicians from RPI that are not included on list or RPI category are...

(RCX 00:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I just added them. (RCX 00:34, 28 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Nice work! Danski14(talk) 05:54, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Should these people be included?[edit]

Honorary Degrees, Are we going to include honorary degrees in it's own section

Board of Trustees Members

Other RPI associated people

Attended but don't know if they graduated

Faculty

  • Daniel E. Button, US Representative from New York ("Staff" at RPI according to source. Don't know if he was also faculty.)[7]

(RCX 16:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Well the one thing I know for certain is we probably don't need a section for Honorary degrees. For one thing, the list could become quite over-inflated, since I think RPI has given out quite a few over the years, and overall they aren't really that notable. And we wouldn't want people to confuse them with actual graduates. As far as faculty, I think we could rename "Professors and Researchers" to just "Faculty" to make it a little more general. Thats where we could add Stephen Van Rensselaer. Visiting professors aren't really faculty. As far as Sage, I was thinking about including her a while ago, but wasn't sure.. was she also a trustee? But overall, I don't think trustees are usually included in these lists.
Finally, even if they just attended I think that is ok. I think I read on a different talk page (Perhaps MITs or at Wikiproject Universities ?) that there was a consensus that having attended was the grounds for inclusion. Danski14(talk) 17:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I moved Stephen Van Rensselaer and renamed category to Faculty. I removed the Miscellaneous for now since it only includes the trustees. It is shown below. (RCX 18:17, 28 May 2007 (UTC))[reply]
Good.. I was about to do the same. Danski14(talk) 18:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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