User talk:Bill Kerby

December 2010

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Kudpung (talk) 04:07, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple issues

Hi Bill. Several page patrollers have now tagged the new article for multiple issues. Please address these as soon as you can as other editors may tag it for possible deletion. Thanks. Happy editing! --Kudpung (talk) 04:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Bill Kerby

The article Bill Kerby has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners or ask at Wikipedia:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Kudpung (talk) 22:32, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Bill Kerby for deletion

The article Bill Kerby is being discussed concerning whether it is suitable for inclusion as an article according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Kerby until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on good quality evidence, and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Orange Mike | Talk 05:16, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't advertise yourself

You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at Bill Kerby. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you.--Orange Mike | Talk 05:17, 15 December 2010 (UTC) (proud husband of a WGW member who's less notable than yourself)[reply]

Los Angeles Free Press?

Hi Bill Kerby. Are you the same person who wrote pieces in the Los Angeles Free Press in the 1960s? I am writing a page on the Lovin' Spoonful's drug bust and I found a 1967 piece in that publication credited to a Bill Kerby. (See p. 17; Kerby, Bill (August 4, 1967). "Why Waste Vitriol on Lovin' Spoonful? Establishment Provides Better Targets". Los Angeles Free Press). Tkbrett (✉) 11:25, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

For any interested editors, I confirmed that this is the same Bill Kerby through this bit of audio (around a minute-and-a-half in). Tkbrett (✉) 02:06, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]