The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Kilo-Lima|^(talk) 16:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tiankai Liu[edit]

This article does not meet WP:BIO in my opinion. Delete.--Isotope23 15:22, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed Delete as Non notable. Montco 15:32, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, nn-bio. --Terence Ong 16:25, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per above. rehpotsirhc 16:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - clearly a very accomplished guy who will probably be notable someday, but not yet. --Saforrest 17:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per above. SorryGuy 00:14, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Okay, my citing of Tiankai Liu appears to have had unintended consequences. I just want to highlight the same principle that I have maintained in the other discussion (on Yi Sun's page): first, although math/science academics and contests at the high school and undergraduate level aren't so notable that we should be creating dozens and dozens of articles on them, I think that it is reasonable to have articles on the top one or two of each graduating year (and if you disagree, please let me know!). Considering the combined magnitude of Tiankai's accomplishments, it's clear that he falls into this category: he was a Putnam fellow this year (top 5 of all North American undergradutes, extraordinarily prestigious), and among other accomplishments in high school, he won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad his freshman year in high school. A gold medal in the IMO freshman year is absurdly rare, and the other two Americans in my memory who have achieved this, Reid Barton and Gabriel Carroll, both have well-established wikipedia articles. The only year of high school Tiankai didn't get a gold medal in the IMO was his junior year, when he attended the Research Science Institute instead.

Moreover, this article doesn't even mention what is perhaps Tiankai's most incredible accomplishment: at the International Olympiad in Informatics, he won a special prize (the only such special prize given that year, and one of the only ones ever) for an incredible solution he provided to one of the problems: his program, dreamed up on the spot, was much faster than the "model" program created by the judges of the competition, computer science experts with far more time to think about the problem. I think that this, which I can add to the article once we resolve this dispute (or before, if consensus is that I should), certainly makes Tiankai notable enough - in addition to his other accomplishments - to be featured on wikipedia. He is one of the few brightest young stars in the math/informatics world right now. slightlyconfused1 04:18, 16 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

I'd love to understand why http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Penn_State_Nittany_Lions_football_team should be an article but people think we should delete Reid Barton, Gabriel Carroll, Tiankai Liu, et al. Rewarding mediocrity?

Incidentally, Gabriel Carroll dominated ARML for the four years he was in high school. His junior year was the only year he came up short of first place -- incredibly because the 8th grader from his team turned in the correct answer to the tiebreaker question twice as fast as him. That 8th grader? Tiankai Liu. A year later they would both be taking home gold medals from the IMO. 128.103.11.166 15:57, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]