User talk:Ronald W Wise

Welcome!

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Your additions to births/deaths/years[edit]

Hi, thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. You are adding a lot of people to years, births and deaths; however, they are not particularly notable. Because these pages often become unwieldy and lengthy with the births and deaths of every American Idol contestant, every minor athlete, and every second-rate politican or actor, it is generally considered that only people who achieved particularly outstanding notoriety in their fields/country are added. Could you please refrain from adding every person who only has semi-notoriety, or else the article will be too long and cumbersome? Thank you, and thanks for editing. --DavidShankBone 03:07, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

David Kirby (poet)[edit]

Another editor has added a "speedy delete" template to the article "David Kirby (poet)", suggesting that it be deleted according to the speedy deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but that editor believe it satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, (see "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). Please either work to improve the article if the topic is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, or, if you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues at its talk page. Note that it may still be sent to Articles for Deletion,

- In my opinion, the article has at least potential merit. As I am not the author, I can remove the notice, and I have done so, This will halt the process temporarily. However, the article is very likely to be renominated for deletion very quickly unless it is much improved. Please see my suggestions below.

He seems a worthy subject for an article, but if you would like the article to remain you must write more fully and in the WP style, which includes:

saying in the first sentence something to demonstrate notability, like "A.b. is professor of X at, winner of the XYZ prize and 10 honorary doctorates" (whatever applies). Use the exact wording either: "notable" or "internationally-known" or "nationally-known"; do not use "famous" -- May sound silly, but that is what many people look for here.
not going into disproportionate personal details
listing college degrees with university and year -- and putting the university names in [[double brackets]]
listing important awards
listing important memberships and offices held
listing books published as formal references style: Author, title, Publisher, year ISBN if possible.
listing some major published papers, say how many total. State the importance the journals are. Say how many other papers cited them.

and, most important, giving more 3rd party sources. A website at a university etc. can be one, but it cannot be the only one. Book reviews are fine, or a newspaper stories. Print or web is OK, but not from a list or a blog. These is, very unfortunately, some prejudice against people from the academic world.

I apologize for not having the time to help more personally. -- DGG 00:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally[edit]

I notice you have been making numerous biography stubs. This is a meritorious and highly worthwhile activity, but sometimes it is not easy to understand from such a stub that the person is notable. There are a number of editors engaged in the essential activity of deleting newly created articles about truly unnotable people, of which there are several hundred each day. To keep your articles from being deleted by mistake, follow the general suggestions above. DGG 01:09, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Julia France.jpg[edit]

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Klallam[edit]

Howdy, I noticed your recent additions to this article, and was curious if you'd be able to add citations for the material. Cheers! Murderbike (talk) 07:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All the information I've added has come from the Stauss book cited in the References section. I'm not sure how to indicate that from each paragraph without cluttering the text with numerous footnote references to the same source. Ronald W Wise (talk) 03:40, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Abejar[edit]

A proposed deletion template has been added to the article Abejar, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but this article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice should explain why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. If you agree with the deletion of the article, and you are the only person who has made substantial edits to the page, please add {{db-author}} to the top of Abejar. Mczack26 (talk) 15:36, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Richard Wesley[edit]

On 29 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard Wesley, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 12:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

George F. Kennan[edit]

I'm not sure why you've reverted Nishkid64 (talk · contribs)'s entirely valid contributions as "subtle vandalism". –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:17, 11 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For more, see WP:ALT. This is a new requirement for featured articles. Nishkid64 _{(Make articles, not wikidrama)} 01:30, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies: I assumed "Head and shoulders" was a poorly formatted reference to the dandruff shampoo! Now I'm subtly amused at my misunderstanding, but sincerely apologetic, and appreciative of the information/link regarding the new ALT requirement. Ronald W Wise (talk) 19:15, 14 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD nomination of R. Garcia y Robertson[edit]

An editor has nominated one or more articles which you have created or worked on, for deletion. The nominated article is R. Garcia y Robertson. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also Wikipedia:Notability and "What Wikipedia is not").

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Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 01:08, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open![edit]

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