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The result was keep. ansh666 06:25, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

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Nice lady who does interesting work, but I'm struggling to find anything like GNG-compliant coverage. EEng 01:39, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 01:42, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
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International work:
While Chaski may not meet the WP:PROF criteria, surely the above reliable sources demonstrate the article can be developed to strengthen the case for WP:GNG. And I did not even include here any of the articles on her Shakespeare validation work of the Kurt Cobain suicide/murder conspiracy fiasco or the controversy over the different takes on forensic linguistics, specifically the contrast with the methods of James R. Fitzgerald of Unabomber case fame. Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 20:50, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
I'll let my esteemed fellow editors follow the Washington Post link and see what's there for themselves; it's something, but can only charitably be called anything that would even begin to contribute toward GNG. After that, things go rapidly downhill:
  • The New Yorker text on Chaski reads, in its entirety: Carole Chaski, the executive director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence and the president of Alias Technology, in Georgetown, Delaware, which markets linguistic software, agrees. Chaski has been working to perfect a computer algorithm that identifies patterns hidden in syntax. With enough linguistic material to work with, she says, she can run the program and draw accurate linguistic conclusions. Her goal is to develop a standard “validated tool” that police, civil investigators, and linguists can turn to when testifying in crucial cases, such as a capital murder trial. “If this is real, these tools should be so reliable that I can automate them and somebody can use them,” she says. Chaski foresees a time when forensic-linguistic “technicians” will do what DNA technicians in crime labs do: “They learn how to run a piece of software or run a Southern blot”—a standard DNA test—“through electrophoresis and then go, ‘Here are my results.’ ”
    In Chaski’s view, a trail of words can be parsed to reveal its author, but that work is best done quantitatively, through brute computational force, not qualitatively, by subjective scholars. Forensic linguistics, she believes, should not be limited to a few highly credentialled experts who have been approved by the courts to testify. She warned me of the recklessness of an “academic” and an “ex-cop” hanging out a shingle, and said their methodology was “fraught with error.” In the small world of forensic linguistics, it was obvious that she meant Leonard and Fitzgerald.
    Leonard said that Chaski’s computerized approach made him “want to take a nap.”
  • NYT text on Chaski reads, in its entirety: Some experts are more optimistic. Carole E. Chaski, president of Alias Technology and executive director of the Institute for Linguistic Evidence, has taken on what she terms “the keyboard dilemma,” that is, “the problem of identifying the authorship of a document that was produced by a computer to which multiple users had access.” She has developed computer software that categorizes grammatical structures as “marked” and “unmarked”: an unmarked noun phrase, for instance, has its main noun at the end of a simple phrase (“our marriage,” “a divorce”), while a marked one has the noun in the beginning of a phrase (“anything you ask”) or in the middle (“the rest of our lives”). These aspects of a writer’s syntax are relatively stable across different styles of writing, Ms. Chaski argues. They are also less prone to technological intervention — compared to spelling and punctuation, which can be changed on the fly by spell-check and autocorrect features ... (Ms. Chaski claims 95 percent accuracy with her syntactic method.)
  • The Oxford Handbook on Language and Law "text" on Chaski is, in its entirely, bullet item reading: Carole Chaski, Author Identification in the Forensic Setting
  • The text on Chaski in Forensic Linguistics: Second Edition reads, in its entirety: The first linguist to consider markedness in terms of authorship systematically was Carol Chaski ... Chaski should be credited with having brought forensic authorship comparison (as opposed to long text authorship ‘attribution’) into the scientific arena, and out of the darkness of literary criticism, canonical literary corpus construction and discourse analysis modes of authorship identification.
Shall I go on? This is nothing like GNG. EEng 21:32, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Delete does not meet any notability guidelines for academics.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Keep: Carole Chaski is used by the FBI, CIA, major corporations and was the star witness to a $50B Fraud case in Russia. Outrageous Attack going on here... Carole Chaski is possibly THE leading expert in the field of Linguistic Evidence. Her expertise is acknowledged worldwide. Her International Expertise was recently used to protect investors from 50 Billion Dollars worth of Russian Investment Fraud... and I quote,

"The Yukos case is among the most flamboyant investor-state arbitrations (Chevron v. Ecuador a close competitor). Yukos reads like a paperback thriller-settling of scores between rogue oligarchs and the Putin regime with billions at stake. Definitely worth a mini-series on HBO or Showtime. Last night at the ISDS answer to the Oscars-the Global Arbitration Review annual awards-a Dutch court snatched the prize for most important decision 2017, a highlight of the black-tie event in a Milan hotel.

The Hague district court judges had set aside the UNCITRAL/Energy Charter Treaty award against Russia. That decision is on appeal in Holland. And there are proceedings elsewhere. For instance, the DC Circuit stayed litigation on the arbitral award pending a final outcome in the Netherlands."

And, who pray tell was the person that protected the investors from the Fraud? Again, I quote:

"The plot thickens when the plagiarism detective comes on the scene-top linguist Dr. Carole Chaski evaluates the text of the award and comes to the conclusion that "with over 95% certainty, Mr Valasek himself wrote approximately 70% of the three most important chapters." here's the link:

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— Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertKwasny (talkcontribs) RobertKwasny (talkcontribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

References

The site quoted is some kind of advocacy site. EEng 20:48, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

KEEP: RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) That's true EEng#s - I've NO history within Wikipedia -- does that mean my truth is less valuable than your assassination attempt? Granted I've not posted an article before, contested one or played in this playground... but I do believe in Truth, Justice and the American Way... [1] so fade away, I'm your magnifying glass and your misdeeds are enlarged by my lack of Wiki Sophistication. Play on that all you will - I readily admit my shortfalls in this playground.

KEEP:RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) Administrator intervention against vandalism -- Look, I've never used Wikipedia before RobertKwasny (talk) 21:12, 25 September 2017 (UTC) but I'm starting to get the hang of it... EEng#s you should be ashamed for what you are attempting to do to a valuable addition to society... Play all the games you want... I'll keep watching the vicious nature of your Personal Vendetta!

KEEP:RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) If meeting of the GNG is the sole reason being used to assert a notability, then yes... those sources being used for showing notability need to be significant (IE: more than a trivial mention even if not the main topic of the source material) in that they address the subject directly and in some detail. But again, Wikipedia:Notability (paragraph 2) specifically allows that the GNG does not always have to be met. It is the verifiability of any assertion in a reliable source that is always mandated... and per guideline, notability does not always depend the depth of coverage of the topic or the individual. So with respects, a topic missing out on meeting the GNG is not the final nail in the coffin.

KEEP:RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) WP:ANYBIO states that winning a notable award or receiving multiple nominations for such awards shows notability... as long as the assertion is properly WP:Verified in reliable sources. It does not also demand meeting GNG. WP:ATH has long accepted per consensus that performing at a professional level in a major sport is acceptable in allowing inclusion. It does not also demand meeting GNG. WP:PROF states that someone could be "notably influential in the world of ideas without their biographies being the subject of secondary sources."

KEEP:RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) And while, there is probably some other more relevant pages than [2] Carole Chaski is VERY notable and VERY expert. I believe I've made my point Administrators. EEng#s is PROUD of being knocked off Wiki before... RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) and his personal attack against Carole Chaski is transparently obvious... get a life, you sad man.

KEEP:RobertKwasny (talk) 21:33, 25 September 2017 (UTC) Admins, please review EEng#s history and take him down again.

  • CommentRobertKrasy - As a new user, you may have missed the behavioral guideline to assume good faith. While EEng and I may argue the merits of whether the subject of an article meets WP:GNG or WP:ACAD, we assume that our motives, at least, coincide in the effort to make the encyclopedia better. When you make an argument here, please refrain from personal attacks, either in the text you contribute or in the edit summary. I’ve struck your extra votes above, as each person participating only has one vote. - Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 22:32, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
Thanks, GmE. People like this don't fool anyone. EEng 23:23, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Thank you Grand'mere Eugene for explaining the rules to this Newbie...RobertKwasny (talk) 02:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC) I'll refrain from further elaboration on a personal nature - I'll just add Ms. Chaski's extensive body of work for Administrative Review and I intend to reach out to her and assist her in doing a proper edit on her full background:

Listed below are publications and presentations in forensic linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and theoretical linguistics. All publications are authored by Carole E. Chaski PhD and joint publications list co-authoring research associates.

RobertKwasny (talk) 02:30, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

It would be a very, very bad idea to draw the subject herself into this situation. That never ends well. EEng 03:47, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
The large number of publications accompanied by rather few citations in GS suggest that the subject has made disproportionally little impact. Xxanthippe (talk) 03:56, 26 September 2017 (UTC).


Is this some kind of alternate universe...??? RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC) Wikipedia is full of incompetents, unpublished, no peer review, never been a keynote speaker, have not spent a lifetime developing and expanding discoveries.

With this AMAZING body of work, it is inconceivable that you EEng#s would be so self centered as to THREATEN a scholar... who are you? My name is in the open for all to see... RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC) RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC) RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

And Xxanthippe, "disproportionally little impact"??? Seriously?? You're using that as the Fount of your reason for Deletion? The lack of Google Scholar Citations????

Are you SERIOUS? GS is the HOME of Spinner Article and Fake Citations!! [1]

This expert has: Co-authored in totally respected academic publications: The Oxford Handbook of Forensic Linguistics, Oxford University Press., Law and Language: Theory and Practice. Düsseldorf University Press, Foundations of Forensic Science and Law: Investigative Applications in Criminal, Civil and Family Justice. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC) What does it take to be considered an expert by the two of you?

Eight or nine Academic Peer Reviewed Articles? RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC) Tons of University Presentations at Major Institutions?

  American Speech: Journal of the American Dialect Society.
  Proceedings of CLS Parasession on Agreement. University of Chicago: Chicago.
  Proceedings of NWAV XV. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
  “Parser Design and the Mapping from Competence to Performance.” Brown University Working Papers in Linguistics Volume V.
  Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice,

American University, Washington DC. University of Michigan George Washington University, Washington DC.

Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. IEEE Homeland Security Technology, Boston, MA. American Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA

I'm stunned that the two of you are colluding to have Carole Chaski Deleted from Wikipedia, she's clearly extremely important in her field RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

What exactly are your fields?

SAD DAY WHEN TWO ANONYMOUS CRITICS CAN ATTEMPT ASSASSINATION OF AN ACCOMPLISHED INDIVIDUAL !!

The reason being what? The motivation being what?

Clearly, VERY clearly, Carole Chaski is a MAJOR contributor to her field.

Undeniably RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

AS ANY CASUAL READER OF HER ACCOMPLISHMENTS COULD SEE AND WOULD SAY...

Notability is not always a contest to see who is more popular in press. While the verification of any assertion in a reliable source is always mandated, per guideline, notability does not always depend the depth of coverage of the topic or the individual, nor that it be immediately available online. WP:ENT and WP:GNG are not mutually exclusive. Meeting one OR the other might be enough to allow consideration of notability. This summary is made per policy WP:V and discussions and AFDs and talkpages and noticeboards for several years. [2] RobertKwasny (talk) 15:14, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

I'm fascinated by this process and to see if it is actually easy to disparage a life's work RobertKwasny (talk) 15:14, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Wow, does this woman ever sleep? RobertKwasny (talk) 15:04, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Some of us are wondering the same thing about you. You're not helping your cause by acting this way. Notability isn't about what someone has done, but about what others have written about him or her. EEng 16:41, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Keep After digging through sources on databases, there's enough for her to pass GNG and she came up with a new technique that while it may be controversial, is certainly used and allowed by courts as evidence. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 23:18, 26 September 2017 Note: An editor has expressed a concern that Megalibrarygirl (talkcontribs) has been canvassed to this discussion.
Could you list just three sources satisfying GNG? EEng 23:21, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Comment It occurred to me instead of WP:GNG or WP:PROF, Chaski meets notability under WP:AUTHOR: 2. The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory, or technique. Chaski doesn't fit academic criteria, because she left teaching to start a business as an expert witness; she has created a method of analysis in forensic linguistics that is accepted by US State and Federal courts, as verified by inline citations in the article; she is considered a pioneer in forensic linguistics. Cheers! — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 03:19, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
Well, first of all, AUTHOR is for artists, architects, novelists -- stuff like that. But even that aside, I think you misunderstand the significance of "created a method of analysis in forensic linguistics that is accepted by US State and Federal courts as verified by inline citations in the article". What the source says is that Chaski's "statistical analysis of syntax in authorship has met the Daubert challenge in the US court system". I know that sounds like a big deal, but it's not. I've devised Daubert-qualified techniques myself, and it would never occur to me that I'm notable. EEng 05:02, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

EEng#s I truly have no cause to help -- I just don't like bullies and blundered into this. It outraged me enough to learn Wikipedia's mechanisms (abet badly) and to speak up - a first for me having been in computing for 41 years. To the others monitoring and deciding on this - I defer - done enough to demonstrate that I'm bad at this and Chaski is a notable that has earned the right and place of honor for her accomplishments, whatever category Wikipedia applies to her - but Deletion... would be a travesty! RobertKwasny (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2017 (UTC) Thank you Megalibrarygirl RobertKwasny (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2017 (UTC) Thank you EEng#s for admitting to being in the same field, perhaps with an axe to grind, I don't know and don't care... but your it would never occur to me that I'm notable. has (at least) given us something that we can agree on. RobertKwasny (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2017 (UTC) EEng#s, perhaps you should stop trying to trash someone that is more accomplished in your field, than you... it's the poorest and lowest form of discourse. That is unless your expertise is so superior to hers that you've been the expert witness in a $51 Billion dollar court case - if you have, your credibility will take quantum leaps forward in my world. RobertKwasny (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Clearly this $50B court case - trying to identify the culprit that authored the language that was designed to defraud investors, needed an expert... Chaski was the chosen expert. By the rules of Wikipedia, I cannot vote KEEP again, but can only drive home the FACTS that should end EEng#s 's argument that Chaski should be eliminated from Wikipedia. She is undoubtedly an expert [1] by every measure. RobertKwasny (talk) 21:52, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

  • Chaski is not involved in anything even remotely like what I do. That you think my last post means she is shows you have no idea what you're talking about.
  • Chaski was not "the chosen expert" in the case to which you refer, but someone whose opinion one party has asked the trier of fact to consider.
  • Anyway (for the nth time) notability has nothing to do with being an expert or what someone's written; it has to do with what's been written about someone.
  • I'm paging a few uninvolved admins (David Eppstein, Bishonen, Cullen328) asking them to collapse your offtopic rants and give you a final warning against further disruption. Consideration might also be given to an UAA or COI action based on [1] (since you claim above that your "name is in the open for all to see").
EEng 23:09, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Keep The sources brought forward by Grand'mere Eugene are sufficient, in my judgment, to show that Chaski is notable. I am declining to act as an administrator here. Instead, I am commenting as an editor, because I have concluded that this article should be kept, despite the ugliness of this debate. RobertKwasny, let me give you some friendly advice here: Your conduct is beyond the pale, overly combative and completely counterproductive. If you persist in unseemly personal attacks against your fellow editors, another administrator is likely to block you, and I would not object. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 04:10, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Comment. RobertKwasny didn't know about Wikipedia's behavioral policies, such as Wikipedia:Civility, Wikipedia:No personal attacks, and Wikipedia:Assume good faith when he posted here. (Please look them up now, Robert, and listen carefully to what Cullen tells you above, because if there's further rudeness from you I'll block you myself.) I can't really blame you for that, as you only registered an account on 24 September, clearly for the exclusive purpose of posting at this deletion discussion and attempting to keep the article on Wikipedia. How did you learn of the article and the deletion discussion, please? That's the question I'm interested in, and I've asked it on your own talkpage as well, to make sure you don't miss it. I'm sure you realise that if people are canvassed from the outside to come here and yell at contributors it's a problem in deletion discussions. Bishonen | talk 13:36, 28 September 2017 (UTC).
  • Keep per Cullen328. Clearly has enough significant coverage and accomplishments; misbehavior of supporter notwithstanding. Montanabw(talk) 07:29, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
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