User talk:RoosterEnroughty

sources for categorizing

In Websense and SurfControl, do you have any source saying that the categorizing of those websites was controversial? Something like Wired, The Register, Newsweek, an article by a well known analyst, etc. It would also be required to show that this categorization is notable enough to get mentioned in the article along the others. When I looked for sources for the article I saw some mentions for that website, but they were all at blogs so I couldn't use them. --Enric Naval (talk) 21:12, 11 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

June 2022

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Rocky Mount, North Carolina, you may be blocked from editing. Magnolia677 (talk) 10:08, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The description of my edits of the Rocky Mount page as "disruptive" is pejorative and uncalled for. I do regret that I did not read the full reference for Roy Cooper noting his long residence in the city before removing him. The stated reason for his being listed was his attendance at Northern Nash High School, said to be in Rocky Mount, but it is not. I think you will find that my further edits are impeccable by anyone's standards. I still think it is a crying shame that Leonard Rawls is not on the notable list. See the quote from Hardee's CEO on the Hardee's page, "Leonard put together an organization with relatively little capital. If it weren't for him and Jim Gardner, there wouldn't be anything of Hardee's Food Systems." Rawls was the man. Gardner mainly just supplied money from his family's dairy business, later sold to Maola. I believe I am owed an apology for the "disruptive" accusation. RoosterEnroughty (talk) 14:20, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to know if there is a hard and fast Wikipedia rule that states that for a person to be listed among a town's "Notable People," that person must have his or her own Wikipedia page. If so, I would like to see the citation. I believe that the treating such a site for the person as necessary and virtually sufficient, it would seem in some cases, has resulted in some very serious distortions of reality in the case of Rocky Mount, in particular, and other places as well.RoosterEnroughty (talk) 15:13, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Boonville, North Carolina. Stop adding random, non-notable names to city articles, per WP:USCITIES#Notable people. You have been reverted multiple times by multiple editors. If you want these people included, gain a consensus on the article's talk page. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:54, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One of the requirements for posting is to assume good faith. I don't see that going on here. Though I have been reverted sometimes, I have not been for most of my recent changes because they have been manifestly for the better. In the case of Boonville, absent that so far unsupported requirement for a Wikipedia page, how is it that the head of a major international company that he created from scratch, is less notable than a woman's basketball coach at a small college? I would love to achieve a consensus, but I don't quite know how to go about it, so I was just testing the waters here. I ask again, is there a hard and fast rule that in order for a person to count as a notable person he or she must have a Wikipedia page? Using that standard as a sort of be all and end all is how one ends up with that Wood socialite as a "Notable Person" in both Rocky Mount and Edenton, it seems to me. I'm just doing what I can to try to make Wikipedia a better source of information. RoosterEnroughty (talk) 22:01, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I finally read the full reference for a person to be counted as notable by Wikipedia. In answers the question I had been raising, which my detractors had ignored:

"To be included in a list of notable people, individuals must still meet the notability requirements per WP:PEOPLE. A fast and easy way to establish this is if they already have an article written about them on Wikipedia, since it would have never been approved, or would have been deleted, if they did not meet notability requirements. This is not the sole rationale for inclusion, since some people who might meet notability standards may not have an article, but it is a quick reference. If challenged, additions without their own article should be removed and discussed on the talk page of the city, until a consensus is reached."

Those who have removed my submissions, however, have, in fact, given the person's lack of a Wikipedia page as the entire reason for denying the submission. I was given to believe that there was nothing further to be discussed. In the process, they have demonstrated far less knowledge of the actual subject at hand than I possess. I might suggest further that Wikipedia re-examine its stated policy that the mere fact that someone has a Wikipedia page qualifies them as a notable person. It's only through such a policy that such an obvious nobody as the Edenton socialite Adrian H. Wood should be listed as a notable person of Rocky Mount, NC. Adrian who? RoosterEnroughty (talk) 19:02, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]