Talk:Human Computer Information Retrieval

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Avruch, could you please elaborate on your concerns regarding conflict of interest (e.g., could you suggest an appropriate reviewer?), notability (e.g., could you suggest someone whose assessment you would trust to be objective?), and the need for additional citations (are there particular statements that are lacking citation?)? (Dtunkelang (talk) 06:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC))

Some evidence of notability: HCIR was the subject of invited lectures at MIT, the University of Washington, and the University of Toronto; was the premise of a workshop conducted at MIT with participation from notable researchers at MIT, Microsoft, IBM, and other institutions; and represents a collection of related approaches (exploratory search, faceted search, and others) that have been the subjects of workshops at the main ACM conferences in IR and HCI (SIGIR, SIGCHI). One might debate the choice of label (e.g., can we lump this all under exploratory search), but the notability of the subject should be uncontroversial. Dtunkelang (talk) 12:37, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Ok. Its generally a good idea to provide a concrete assertion of notability at the beginning of an article. Its not that people checking for notability don't read the whole thing ('tho they may not) but mostly it just provides 'Why should I care?' right at the beginning. I think the article could stand some additional references, both for the purposes of verifiability and to back up your claim of notability. (I'm not sure that the community would agree necessarily that being the subject of guest lectures qualifies, but I'm assuming there are more published sources if it really is that prominent). Avruch^Talk 14:14, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

I added what I hope serves as an assertion of notability at the beginning. I also reached out to researchers listed in the major figures who have no conflict of interest, and they were very positive about both the content and the tone of the page. On that basis, I removed the COI tag. I left the citations tag for now, since I agree that more citations would improve the entry, and I will try to work those in there in my next edit. Dtunkelang 17:38, 2 December 2007 (UTC)