User talk:Guacmol

Hello, Guacmol! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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re: edit to Glenbrook North High School

Greetings and welcome to Wikipedia, Guacmol!

I recently reverted the edit that you made to this article, and rather than simply walk away, I thought I would explain why I did.

The Wikischools project sets the general guidelines for all school related articles. Their policies on including alumni are that an alumni must:

1. be the subject of an already existing Wikipedia article, or 2. be eligible for such an article under the notabililty or biography policies. While the alum you tried to add did not meet either of these criteria, there is sometimes leeway given if the person was directly related to something notable (for example, the founder of a company which was itself notable). Since the company this person is associated with also fails the notability policy, there is little leeway for interpretation. Until this person (or at the very least, their company) reaches the level of notability outlined in the policies, he should not be added to the article.

Take some time and browse some of the links related to policy if you have any questions. If you really feel I have made a mistake, come over to my talk page, and we can start a wider discussion with more editors. Enjoy your editing! LonelyBeacon (talk) 00:30, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job on the article. However, there is a different problem now. While I am sure there is little doubt about establishing notability now, there needs to be a reliable source that confirms Mr. Kaplan attended GBN. The reference that is there now doesn't mention he went there, and I checked the references you added to the article, and they don't mention it either. I am not touching anything for now, but if anyone goes to check those sources (such as if the article is being examined for assessment), the reference that is there now won't hold up, and he will likely either get deleted, or will get fact tagged and deleted after that. There are other editors who swoop through articles deleting anything that is not prim and proper in terms of sourcing. It seems like you know a little about this person, so you might know where to look. If I can help, let me know. LonelyBeacon (talk) 01:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

IMO, and I stress this is an opinion that I would like to see some other folks chime in on, yearbooks won't work by themselves. The problem is, while you can be 100% sure that this is the same person, and I can believe that you are right, there is no way to confirm it independently. If (for example) there was an article in the recent school paper, or this past year's yearbook that said something like "person X, an alum, is this person", then it becomes more of a reliable source (though some editors may very well require that it be a "third party" source ... some source not connected with the school (like a newspaper, magazine, etc.). The relevant place to double check this is to look at Wikipedia's policy on reliable sources.

BTW ... kudos on making sure that article you created was referenced. A lot of people show up here, write an article without any referencing, and then get really mad when someone nominates the article for deletion. My guess is, the article meets notability and verifiability, and shouldn't be a problem. LonelyBeacon (talk) 01:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

I nominated your article Moses Wolf Goldberg for DYK. Joe Chill (talk) 22:48, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Moses Wolf Goldberg

On May 30, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Moses Wolf Goldberg, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. 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) 00:02, 30 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]