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Guide to cleanup of Biographies of Computer Scientists[edit]

Finding computer scientist to clean up:

MathGenealogy[edit]

If the person in question is on https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu, make sure the link using Template:MathGenealogy.

Copy their thesis title and year into the infobox.

I like to put the link itself in a ref tag after their thesis title.

Genealogy[edit]

If advisor data is present, list in the infobox.

However, for advisees, only add them if they have their own wikipedia article. This is not the place for red links.

Make sure their advisor/advisees are added to the CS wikiproject so we can find them for cleanup if needed.

Awards[edit]

Awards can can be in a list or in prose and in their own section or paragraph or not. Just be consistent on a given page.

Unfortunately, award data can be a bit redundant. There are at least four places we should make sure data is present:

The bio of the award winner
An article, possibly listing award winners; perhaps in a dedicated list (see Category:Computer science awards)
A navbox of award winners (see Category:Computer science awards templates)
A category for winners (see Category:Computer scientists by award)

Thus, if a person wins an award, there are up to five tasks to be done:

Add the winner to the list of winners on the award article
Add the winner to the navbox
Add the award to the bio of the winner, linking to the award article
Add the navbox to the bio
Put the winner in the winner category

Here is an incomplete list of these awards, article, naboxes, and categories:

Award	List?	Navbox	Category
Turing Award	Yes	Template:Turing Award laureates	Category:Turing Award laureates
Knuth Prize	Yes	Template:Knuth Prize laureates	Category:Knuth Prize laureates
Paris Kanellakis Award	Yes	Template:Kanellakis Award laureates
Milner Award	Yes	Template:Milner Award laureates
Presburger Award	Yes	Template:Presburger winners
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal	Yes	Template:Richard W. Hamming Medal recipients
EATCS Award	Yes	Template:EATCS Award laureates
Gödel Prize	Yes	Template:Gödel Prize laureates	Category:Gödel Prize laureates
Grace Murray Hopper Award	Yes	Template:Hopper winners	Category:Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
Dijkstra Prize	Yes		Category:Dijkstra Prize laureates
IACR Fellow	Yes		Category:International Association for Cryptologic Research fellows
Nevanlinna Prize	Yes	Template:Nevanlinna Prize winners	Category:Nevanlinna Prize laureates
ACM Prize in Computing	Yes		Category:Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing
ACM Fellow	Yes		Category:Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award	Yes
Athena Lecturer	Yes
Eckert–Mauchly Award	Yes
ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award	Yes
ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award	Yes
Gordon Bell Prize	No
Ken Kennedy Award	Yes
ACM Software System Award	Yes
CHI Academy	Yes
Steven A. Coons Award	Yes

Categories[edit]

In addition to any award categories, there are some CS-related categories

Some of them are cross-products of larger categories; judgment call whether they are interesting enough to use.

Lists[edit]

Lots of lists we could add them to Category:Lists of computer scientists

Infoboxes[edit]

Make sure the page has a fairly complete Template:Infobox scientist or comparable.

Use Template:Plainlist and Template:nowrap as appropriate to get good formatting.

Make sure all awards and institutions listed in the article are present in the infobox.

Add important awards to infobox. I usually excluded fellowships, memberships, honorary degrees, and best paper awards from the infobox.

Make sure formatting is consistent (e.g. either all years and degrees for attended schools or none).

Talk Page[edit]

Add the bio to WikiProject Computer science.

If in need of an infobox, add |needs-infobox=y; if you added an infobox, remove it.

We could try to access quality and importance; I am not sure of the standards for either within WikiProject CS.

You can add a requested image tag, but for living people, actually finding one with appropriate copyright status is a challenge.