User talk:Philkirwin

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Speedy deletion nomination of Ellis Katsoff

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Ellis Katsoff requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Protirement

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A tag has been placed on Protirement requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about something invented/coined/discovered by the article's creator or someone they know personally, and it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. Cabayi (talk) 22:24, 10 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Ellis Katsof

The article Ellis Katsof has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no reliable references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners, or ask at the help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp/dated}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within seven days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Cabayi (talk) 09:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sorted.

Nomination of Ellis Katsof for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ellis Katsof is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ellis Katsof 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 high-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 notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 00:03, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

My client, Ellis Katsof, is in Montreal this weekend and will be supplying more substantive links this week.

You're going to have to read our conflict of interest rules. Wikipedia is not a place where you get to create an article about "your client" — you cannot start an article on here about anybody with whom you have any form of direct personal relationship (whether that's family, friend, coworker or client.) We're not a free public relations platform or a LinkedIn clone on which anybody is entitled to have an article just because he exists — we're an encyclopedia, where inclusion is conditional on meeting certain specific standards of reliable sourcing for having achieved certain specific standards of accomplishment. Bearcat (talk) 22:31, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's not intended as free PR - the guy is a pioneer in his field and this is backed up by his career, his book, those that are interviewed in the book, etc.

Being "a pioneer in his field" has to be backed up by media coverage about him that passes WP:GNG, not by simply asserting the existence of his book or his career. If he were getting covered in newspapers on the order of the The Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun or The New York Times on a regular basis, then that would be a valid reason for an encyclopedia article — but if you have to rely on his own self-published content about himself and local coverage within St. Catharines/Niagara's own local media with no evidence of media coverage beyond the purely local, then that's simply not the kind of sourcing that it takes to get in here. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 14 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So ignoring the pieces from the US and Australia and just deleting? Please reinstate.

Familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's rules about what qualifies as a reliable source and what doesn't. "The pieces from the US and Australia" weren't helping anything — the only Australian source was a university campus newspaper, not a general-market daily, and the article contained no evidence of any US-based sourcing at all. Bearcat (talk) 19:22, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]