Talk:Michael Heller (law professor)

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Proposed merge with Tragedy of the anticommons[edit]

This article consists entirely of a thesis proposed by Michael Heller (law professor) and should therefore be merged to there as an illustration of Heller's opinions. The Heller bio is very short so there's no need to spawn separate articles about him. Dennis Bratland (talk) 18:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand why an article about a concept like the Tragedy of the Anti-commons should be merged with the article of a professor. I mean, would you like to see the merging of the page on the General Theory of Relativity with that of Albert Einstein, considering that it was a thesis introduced by him? Nor do you see the Tragedy of the commons being merged with Garrett Hardin's page. What needs to be done here is not a merger, but rather a development of both pages. Baekiatlala (talk) 00:44, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Heller is no Einstein. Einstein is known for many things besides General Relativity. Heller is known for one thing. The general principles at Wikipedia:Notability (people) lean towards not making a separate bio about people who are only known for one thing, if that thing already has a article about it.
Can you cite anything that we can say in this article which we couldn't reasonably cover in Tragedy of the anticommons? --Dennis Bratland (talk) 01:59, 21 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Daveburstein (talk) 22:42, 25 September 2015 (UTC)Tragedy of the anticommons is becoming an increasingly important concept and deserves a full article. I just used it in a spectrum analysis. I believe that a professor at a leading university is an appropriate subject for his own article. His bio includes several things that don't belong in the anticommons article, including universities and law firms he has worked and studied at. I noted he's a Stanford Ph.D. interesting because another Stanford Ph.D is using his concepts in spectrum.[reply]

Oppose. I understand the logic of the proposed merge, but believe a better route would be to merge Tragedy of the anticommons into a criticism section within the primary article in this realm, Tragedy of the commons. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 15:36, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]