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William M. Anderson, Jr.

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William M. Anderson, Jr. article

Hello, thank you for writing this article! I have a few concerns about it and wanted to discuss them with you. I've linked to guides that show Wikipedia's rules on the topics.

A lot of it reads like a press release from the university, not a factual encyclopaedia article. It also copies the university biography, which isn't right for Wikipedia.
I’m a bit concerned that it has no citations from sources aside from his work. That worries me since without proof that this person is notable, meaning covered enough in media to get a Wikipedia article on them, the article may get deleted.

Are there any extra citations you can add from reliable sources like news articles about this person demonstrating that they're notable? I'm concerned since the article may get deleted otherwise.

Let me know if you've got any questions or thoughts about this. Blythwood (talk) 17:45, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Extra point

Looking at your contributions, they make me wonder if you might work for or represent the University of Mary Washington in some way. This isn't necessarily a problem, but if so you need to be clear in declaring it when making edits to articles. Please let me know if you have any questions. Blythwood (talk) 17:47, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I do not work for the school, but I am a student. I am in a Digital Studies class and my task is to create a Wikipedia page that is important enough to not be deleted. The most recent presidents already have Wiki articles about them, so I decided to write one about this president who served the longest. I cannot find any additional information about him aside from what the school has written about him.Christameff (talk) 17:53, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for letting me know! The criteria for whether an academic can get an article on them are under WP:NACADEMIC and WP:PERSON.
Just to quickly summarise, independent sources are important, also is not directly plagiarising any text - if it's been published under a copyrighted website like your school's, we can't take it as the comment below explains (especially since, as I said, university bios tend to look promotional). If you can't find any independent coverage (which sounds odd to me - surely your student newspaper's done an interview or an article you could cite? I've never known a student newspaper that didn't find something about the head of admin's management they didn't have some objection to or something...!), then that might not be such a great topic for an article.
In deciding whether creating an article on someone is a good idea, those guides should help you and people from the Articles for Creation and the Teahouse project might be able to give you advice on whether if an article is worth taking beyond a draft and thinking about publishing. (Speaking for myself, I think creating pages on Wikipedia is less important than some people say - there are quite a lot of bad ones on here that could be better! But that's just me.) But best wishes with your project - let me know if you ever want to ask anything. Blythwood (talk) 18:03, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Further to that, I also recommend reading other articles on people in comparable jobs, say this one which is good. You'll see that they start with basic facts (dates of birth and death, key biographical and employment details, area they specialised in as an academic) rather than sounding like a sales pitch for the person. That was one reason why I was worried that what you'd written didn't read like a basic factual article. Blythwood (talk) 18:07, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of William M. Anderson, Jr.

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