Draft talk:William Martin Boyce

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Willam Martin Boyce is notable for his papers on commuting functions and callable bond valuation, which have been cited over 100 times.

Article rejected due to insufficient sourcing

@Ktkvtsh Could you help me understand what you're looking for in terms of additional sources? I get that someone is not notable merely for writing papers. But his papers were published in academic journals and have numerous citations, and (as noted by the Robert Brown source) his computer-assisted proof of the existence of commuting functions with no common fixed point preceded the computer-assisted proof of the four color theorem by nine years. Kenneth Appel, the mathematician who worked on that proof, has a Wikipedia article, and it seems very similar to this one: mostly biographical, links to own papers, etc. WillisBlackburn (talk) 13:51, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You can't use self published sources (the subjects own works). Also, you should not submit or edit this article, as you have stated on your talk page that there is a conflict of interest between you and the subject of the article. Ktkvtsh (talk) 23:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The papers by William Boyce that I cited in the article were not self-published.

According to the Wikipedia policy on self-published works (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_self-published_works):

A source is self-published if the author and the publisher are the same.
Research published in peer-reviewed journals is not self-published.

All of the papers I used as sources were published in peer-reviewed journals (and are identified as such in the article):

"Commuting Functions with No Common Fixed Point" was published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, a peer-reviewed journal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactions_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society)
"Stopping Rules for Selling Bonds" was published in The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, which is now called the RAND Journal of Economics, a peer-reviewed journal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_RAND_Journal_of_Economics).
"Optimum Bond Calling and Refunding" was published in Interfaces, which is now called INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, a peer-reviewed journal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFORMS_Journal_on_Applied_Analytics).

Furthermore, the Robert F. Brown paper I used as a source, "A Good Question Won't Go Away: An Example Of Mathematical Research", was published in The American Mathematical Monthly, a peer-reviewed journal (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Mathematical_Monthly).

Regarding my authorship of the article, Wikipedia does not prohibit people with a conflict from proposing new articles. I disclosed my conflict and am proposing this article through the Articles for Creation process. WillisBlackburn (talk) 02:30, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]