Talk:Rafael Medoff

Notability

See addition to the article/ The person is notable and his work is important.

The claim of notability is unsourced, as is the entire article. <eleland/talkedits> 13:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Being a director of the institue is notable enough. He publsih articles on important historical subjects. Zeq (talk) 18:27, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

This article needs to be expanded, not deleted. look at the links, and see that he is involved in the study of Zionism and Holocaust in the interwar and WWII periods. I typed him into google books and did an academic references search, lots of cittions to his work.Fan613 (talk) 15:00, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Fan613

• A very quick check of news google archive or google book will establish this man's notability. Beyond, of course, the fact that he has a string books - works of serious scholarship - to his credit and the fact that he heads the Wyman Institute. It may take a little time to get him wirtten up properly.. the article needs, for example to be sub divided between his ongoing scholarly endeavors and his often quite political work which regularly makes headlines. the two do cross over. I first encountered him last year giving a curtain speech at the premier of an off-Broadway (not off-off, a seriou play) called The Accomplices]] designed to showcase the work of activist Hillel Kook in the 1940's and, I presume, to make the subtle case for pro-Zionist activism today. this mix of activism and scholarship, and scholarship in support of activism is interesting, his scholarship is taken seriously. He has a new book announced that sounds likely to be noticed. So, stop taking this page down without at least running a simple check or two onwho the man is. Fan613 (talk) 21:10, 29 April 2008 (UTC)Fan613

Well, you are certainly free to edit the page while the AfD discussion is ongoing and we'll see what happens. But it is kinda hard to make something out of nothing, and the thresholds established at Wp:PROF and WP:N in general are pretty clear. However, it is quite inappropriate to remove AfD notices from article pages. Usually this is a warnable offense, but since you appear to be new, this can slide for now. Tarc (talk) 21:36, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Let's Expand Dr. Medoff's Wikipedia Page

I am puzzled what led to someone suggesting removing Dr. Rafael Medoff's Wikipedia page.

Dr. Medoff's important collaborative book with Professor David Wyman and being director of the Wyman Institute are by themselves notable, as are his many other books, large number of articles in various papers in the USA and internationally, being historical consultant to the play "The Accomplices" shown last year in Manhattan, and high level conferences he organizes in the USA and internationally. Example of the latter is the 2007 Wyman Institute conference at the Fordham University Law School. Professor Elie Wiesel was keynote speaker and important talks were given also by Professor David Wyman, Professor Moshe Arens (was Israel's Minister of Defense and Minister of Foreign Affairs and its ambassador to the US), Dr. Rebecca Kook (Hillel Kook's daughter), ex-New York City mayor Ed Koch and many other noteworthy individuals. Dr. Medoff and Professor Wyman are the leading historians on the various important activities of Hillel Kook (Peter Bergson), especially his rescue committee which was one of the most important if not most important rescue activism during the Holocaust anywhere, and by far the most important in North America. As noted in earlier comments Dr. Medoff is not only the head of a noted research institute and a scholar with prolific publications in various media, but is also an activist and an effective popularizer of important issues.

Some very basic litmus tests on Dr. Medoff's notability are the following row counts

Term "Dr. Rafael Medoff" on GOOGLE: 2,610 YAHOO: 15,700

Term "Rafael Medoff" on GOOGLE: 16,100 YAHOO: 82,500

Term "Wyman Institute" on GOOGLE: 8,570 YAHOO: 48,400

Probably some links are out of context, however even the raw indicators are solid indications that Dr. Rafael Medoff, is indeed, making many notable contributions and that his Wikipedia page needs to be expanded for the reasons stated here and by a number of positive comments above. Emesz 1 May, 2008

Clear warning of POV info removal

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafael_Medoff&diff=302088437&oldid=300393870

Giving a clear warning on POV info removal to change the accuracy of the article. Why his PHD details and book comments subtracted from the article with no explanation or reason. Kasaalan (talk) 10:27, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

I also added a view section for another removal of his views. Kasaalan (talk) 10:37, 18 July 2009 (UTC)