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Hello, CarolineHeldman, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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Hello Caroline. I have taken my pruning shears to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Lisa Wade. You may not like what I did, but take my word for it, I have increased the article's chances of being accepted. Relevant guidelines for notability here are WP:GNG and WP:PROF. If you wish to improve the article, and you care for my advice, adding reviews of Dr. Wade's work is a good idea. GNG and PROF both need secondary sourcing, and that is, as yet, lacking in the draft. Besides, it is perfectly possible for the blog, for instance, to be notable (by our guidelines) without the person writing it to be notable, as odd as that may sound. I have also applied said shears to the article for the blog and to an article called Caroline Heldman, a topic you may or may not be familiar with--and that may also be a bit problematic. Please see our guidelines for conflicts of interest. Anyway, I wanted to drop you a line so you won't be too shocked when you look at those articles. FWIW, I'm an administrator here as well as a (non-notable) professor, and I've edited quite a number of such biographies. That doesn't make me infallible, far from it, but I do have some experience. Happy days, Drmies (talk) 03:18, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

RESPONSE: You might be of the opinion that you are being helpful, but in actuality, you have made my page so laughably inaccurate as to not be useful because you aren't a good judge of reputable links. For example, you removed reference to Occidental College, a top-tier liberal arts campus that has been around for over 100 years, because you deemed it not reputable (!) I have heard from several people who have tried to add content to my page that you have made similar decisions which frankly make little sense. My page has so many inaccuracies in basic ways (e.g., I'm not a gender studies professor, I'm a Political Scientist who has appeared on over 500 news programs in the past five years -- facts you removed, despite links to videos of my television appearances!) that it's a useless source of information. Please stop "helping" in this way as you are clearly unfit to determine whether a source is reputable or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by CarolineHeldman (talkcontribs)