User talk:Alison.ek

To develop your article for this assignment, please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: [[/Article title]]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Student username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

Be sure to read the Wikpedia guidelines on notability. Try to construct your entry in such a way that Ruz' notability would be evident. It's not always successful, since Wikipedia can be very picky about who's "notable" and who's not. You can leave your entry on your user page until it's been graded and then see how well it flies (or not) in mainspace. You can find the Wikipedia discussion about the notability (and supposed lack of it) for my deleted Blossom Goodchild entry here: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blossom_Goodchild. I gave up fighting after the second deletion. It's too bad, since I think she was at least as notable as other individuals whose entries are still up. For example, I was annoyed to see that the entry for the Balloon boy hoax of October 15, 2009 stuck, since I thought the Blossom Goodchild incident was even more significant. I think people will want to remember her prediction for October 14, 2008 when October 14, 2012 rolls around. (Basically, mid-October is a time that's especially ripe for UFO sightings and related incidents. It happened again this year in New York City on October 13. Turns out they were balloons.) Hoopes (talk) 22:31, 29 October 2010 (UTC)