Damerell

July 2022

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 97.126.96.239 (talk) 12:34, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Notability

Wikipedia wants to have an article for every notable subject, and we do not want articles non-notable subjects. We have attempted to define "notability" as objectively and precisely as we can. Please take a look at WP:N, and specifically at WP:GNG. It's fundamentally about whether the subject has been noticed in the general press. Sadly, this means that professors are less notable than football players, murderers, rock bands, or actors and actresses. In an an attempt to mitigate this, we also have some additional guidelines for certain professions, including "academics": See WP:NACADEMIC. Unfortunately, the article at Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy does not seem to support a claim of "notability" by our definitions. Please point out which of the criteria for inclusion that you feel you meet so we can improve and retain the article. Put the appropriate references on the article's talk page and add a {{request edit}} to ask another editor to update the article. If you need help, ask me on my talk page. -Arch dude (talk) 18:55, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

The article Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no assertion of notability, no references to support notability

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Arch dude (talk) 03:17, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

I am puzzled. The entry on me appeared originally as a 'stub', authored by someone else, with no instigation from me. Having discovered the entry, I inserted references to all my published books, whose existence can be confirmed by simple Google searches. I am quite happy to accept that I am not 'notable', but someone else must have thought me 'notable' enough to create the 'stub' entry in the first place! Damerell (talk) 04:47, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

@Damerell:Correct. You have done nothing wrong. It's not your fault that User:Pirhayati (possibly one of your students) created the stub. We end up deleting about 200 articles every day. No hard feelings. We are basically crowdsourced by effectively anonymous volunteers and we are chaotically "organized", with no organizational hierarchy. Nobody assigns tasks to the volunteers, and in any given 30-day period about 100,000 different individuals contribute to Wikipedia. This means that new articles are reviewed by self-assigned reviewers, or not at all, so some articles sneak in that should not be here. I'm personally irritated by the fact that an emeritus professor of your standing is not "notable". It basically means that the lay press does not value the same things I value. -Arch dude (talk) 06:04, 16 July 2022 (UTC)