Talk:P. K. Rajagopalan

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Should Wikipedia include the author's full publication list?

To me, including the full 200+ publication list of Rajagopalan is clearly WP:INDISCRIMINATE, as I mentioned in my edit summary removing it.

For extra certainty and as a sanity check, I looked at some comparable articles: Isaac Adewole, Shyam Swarup Agarwal, and Erez Lieberman Aiden are alphabetically the first three good articles about biologists. Agarwal includes a "Selected bibliography" section with seven publications; the other two omit it entirely. 5205 articles total contain the text "Selected bibliography"; 2663 articles contain "List of Publications", like Herbert Druce, but that article section's full title is actually "Partial list of publications"; many of the other articles are not articles about people.

Overall, I think it's fairly self-explanatory that Wikipedia isn't a repository of arbitrary scientific articles, which is also touched on in WP:LISTCRIT and WP:NOTDIRECTORY.

However, two years after my edit, an IP editor 110.226.177.195 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) restored the section without explanation. I've sent a notification on their talk page about this discussion, but if there ends up being no further explanation in the near future, reverting this new re-inclusion seems like the correct course of action to me. --Retro (talk | contribs) 19:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]