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Note: I intend to replace this with Category:Psychologists at some point, (automatic sorting, easier to keep updated, etc) and will be copying info from it so don't just delete it as a duplication.... - Xgkkp 18:33, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
(I am not sure how to do this "Talk" thing. I assume I just edit it?) There needs to be distinction betweeen psychologists and those who have made significan contributions to the field of psychology. Being a psychologist, I feel very strongly about this. Maybe a solution is to have linking pages, one specifically a listing of psychologists, i.e., people with PhDs (MAs as well?) in the field of psychology and a list of others, either "non-psychologists who have made significant contribution to the field of psychology," or just "siginficant contributers to human psychology"? Rsugden 21:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
Since no one has commented on my above idea about the list, I am proposing that I change things around a bit: 1) make a table with letters for last names. 2) Do something about segregating psychologists from those who have made contributions to psychology. As I said before I feel strongly about this. At least in the US, there is a big struggle to have psychologist seen as unique contributors to mental health as well as scope of practice battles where were are legally designated as such. I want a page where someone can come to see what people formally trained in psychology have done, not a huge list of everyone who has done something that is "pscyhological". Most of the people mixed in have done nothing to advance psychology but have usually added something to psychotherapy. So, if there are no objections, I will proceed in my single-minded mania! Rsugden 14:02, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right way to respond, but I would like to make an objection to treating the category of "psychologists" as restricted to those who are licensed under APA guidelines. What then would you call Freud, Milt Erickson, and all the others who have made great contributions. Having a separate list, a category under "Psychologists" would be the proper way to do that - perhaps called something like, "Psychologists with APA licenses."
Here's another idea: Have a section for psychologists mentioned in the public media? I thought about this with Pinker being in Time's 100 influential people. I don't agree but maybe a section that could be updated regularly with a purge every so many months? Rsugden 17:38, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
There are a number of living psychologists, including John Darley, Bibb Latane, Harold Kelley and Daniel Batson, who have entries in Wikipedia but are not included in this list. This is rather strange, given that the red indicate that certain people in the list do not have Wikpedia entries! (Well, as from early May 2006, they are now as I have added them to the list). No one is expecting any one to know all of the "psychologist" entries in a reference work as expansive as Wikipedia, but can I please propose that we try something to make this list more manageable? How about having several psychologist lists, one of "U.S. psychologists", one of "U.K. psychologists", one of "German psychologists" and so on and so forth? This would also be a good way for Wiki-readers to read about how psychological trends in different countries might differ. ACEO 20:30, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Does any know anything of the Argentine psychoanalyst, Ana Maria Rizzuto? If any one would like to take up the above offer, it would certainly be interesting to have a category of "Argentine psychologists". Other categories could be U.S. psychologists, French psychologists, German psychologists, Spanish psychologists, Dutch psychologists, British psychologists, Belgian psychologists and Scandinavian psychologists. That all might sound a bit biassed towards the States and Europe, but it would be good if, in response, some people could write about psychologists in other parts of the world. ACEO 19:49, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
There is a new entry, Hussein Olad, under the 'D's. I can't find a reference to someone in the field of psychology with that name, and it is under the wrong letter of the alphabet. Does anyone else recognize that name? SteveWolfer 14:18, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
I removed 'Boo la ca sha' which was just a text string (not formated as an article name) and it was at the bottom of the entries for the letter 'A'. It had been added by 194.72.50.146 some time ago. If it is a valid name, I'll add it back - just let me know what letter of the alphabet it goes under :-) SteveWolfer 23:22, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm removing Proxy Papadopoulos because there are no references to such a person existing anywhere online. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.225.230.65 ( talk) 10:44, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the number of names on the list that I have never heard of, that have no Wikipedia article and don't show up in Google (at least not in the first 100 items or so). It might be that some of these entries are valid, but I suspect that many are not. I propose that any name that has been in the list for more than 24 hours without an article be deleted. Any comments? If there is consensus on this, then we can put that requirement at the top of the page and start deleting. SteveWolfer 16:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Example: The last name entered was - no article, not a name I'd heard before, and I didn't find anything on Google. I also followed Frédérick Lacasse's suggestion and checked requested articles - nothing there either. So, I looked at the contributions of the user who added the entry (from the List of psychologists page, click the History tab, then click 206.176.103.10). It's clear that this user, apart from heart-felt additions to some articles on contemporay rock bands, mostly uses Wikipedia for vandalism. This IP address might be common-use computer at a high school or college. SteveWolfer 16:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I started searching for some of the other names with no articles. I found info on the first two I tried in Google: Narziss Ach and Thomas M Achenbach. On Achenbach all I found was CV page at the Univ. of Vermont so he may not be "notable" enough to have an article. SteveWolfer 21:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
A new user named JC Grey added JJ Celia Grey to the list. There is no associated article and I find nothing with a Google search. If we don't require that entries be notable, the list will soon become unusable. SteveWolfer 17:09, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Also lack of viable references are a worry to me for example 'James C. Ronning (Offered what is considered the definitive explanation of hypnosis)' this chap has no Wiki article, there is no obvious reference to the statement after his name, no notable articles in Medline, Google, etc. I think a manual edit of this page must be made before it just becomes a worthless list of favoured people. WikiKonspire ( talk) 23:10, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I've put in two articles (just stubs) and they both disappeared. One on Narziss Ach and one on Hagop S Akiskal. The other articles I created have stayed. I did the one on Narziss Ach twice - just to make sure I remembered to push the 'Save' button. Any ideas? SteveWolfer 02:53, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I checked the deletion logs (they're hard to find). They said:
Wikipedia has a lot of rules. One of them is that the content has to be written by contributors. Thus copying a section from another web site is not allowed (it is assumed to be a copyright violation). I think it would have been nice if some one had explained that to you. Also, I would have listed "csd" in the edit summary as
WP:CSD, so you could click on the link and check item # G (General criteria) 12. Don't be discouraged by the number of policies here and the sometimes apparently impatient way in which they are enforced. If you can't figure something out, you can put the template "Helpme" on your Talk page. (Search for "Template:Helpme" for more information).
If you create the articles again with content you write yourself, I suggest you use Hagop S. Akiskal as the name (period after initial). - Do c t orW 20:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
FYI.
I have created List of psychiatrists. All individuals on this list are medical doctors. They are board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or are members of the American Psychiatric Association, or the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, or another professional medical psychiatric association in a different country. Smeelgova 12:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC).
People who make important contributions to other fields don't necessarily belong on this list. "Memes" (Biologist Richard Dawkins) are a clever idea, and have become a prominent concept in popular culture, but psychologists have not made this idea an important part of their research as far as I can tell, so Dawkins' contribution to psychology is minimal. There are thousands of people who have made more important contributions. He should not be on this list. - Do c t orW 06:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
The stig is an awsome character and the mascot of Crawford College Pretoria this mascot has a motorcycle helmet and a engineering suit and in rumours it is said that the stig is a girl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.30.31.182 ( talk) 17:54, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
These are people widely recognized as philosophers, not psychologists. The term is hard to define before the modern era, and so the list doesn't seem useful here. Churn and change ( talk) 19:29, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
At my request, Legobot generated a list, traversing subcategories. The list is here: User:Legobot/Psychologists Clearly, manually adding entries is hopeless. We can ask the category be "listified," that is auto-generated from the category. That means we lose the short descriptions we have here. There are 40 or so entries here not in the category; I can fix that. Churn and change ( talk) 02:24, 12 September 2012 (UTC)