User talk:CreolePookalah

Regarding your edits to J.R. Williams:

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Your JR Williams article:

This is my own take on the problems that have to be fixed in this article:

WP:CRYSTAL - Wikipedia articles don't generally contain information "about the future", unless it's something that definitely will occur. People's plans change, people die, you know how it is.

WP:NPOV - All articles are to be written in a neutral point of view. Wikipedia articles aren't supposed to make judgments or express opinions.

WP:LIVING - importantly, it says "Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material — whether negative, positive, or just highly questionable — about living persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia articles." I'm not in the cabal, but I think this might have a reason behind it that has to do with law? Anyway, if it's not previously reported somewhere in the press, it shouldn't be here.

WP:VERIFY - Wikipedia pretty much demands that everything in this article can be verified somewhere else. No original research.

WP:SOAP - Wikipedia is not a soapbox. No self-promotion or promotion of others. This is not what Wikipedia's here for. Wikipedia is here to provide information to people that they want to find.

WP:MYSPACE - Wikipedia is not MySpace. It is not a social networking site, and articles aren't supposed to be here to "introduce people to things".

I will be liberally deleting over the next little while to fix the WP:CRYSTAL, WP:NPOV and WP:LIVING problems in this article. I was originally going to send this article directly to AfD, but then I realized it had only been created in April, and I want to give the original author a chance to bring their article up to Wikipedia's standards. A large number of people here at Wikipedia would never give you a second chance, they'd just delete it - but I would rather encourage you to improve the article.

Specifically, I hope to see the original author (who's still around) provide references for this article that will demonstrate the notability of the subject. That's because another important principle here is WP:N: the notability of this person must be proven in the article, and it must be proven using entirely secondary outside sources.

Right now, this person does not seem to meet Wikipedia's notability criteria - self-publishing a book at Lulu.com is not usually accepted by the editors here, and I don't think regional awards in debating or stage acting will be accepted by them either. However, go ahead and read WP:N for yourself, and see if perhaps you have something on this person that can demonstrate his notability in a way that can satisfy Wikipedia editors.

Otherwise, if this article doesn't get improved, I'm pretty sure it will get deleted by someone, within a couple months at best. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 14:15, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Keep it up on JR Williams

Good, you've begun adding sources to your article. Please do try to find as many external sources as you can, so that the notability of this person can be demonstrated. It may seem like overkill to have to add footnote after footnote, but on a topic like this, where someone may dispute whether we need an article on this person, it's better to have as many footnotes as possible. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 15:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

References for the article

Your recent contribution(s) to the Wikipedia article J.R. Williams are very much appreciated. However, you did not provide references or sources for your information. Keeping Wikipedia accurate and verifiable is very important, and as you might be aware there is currently a drive to improve the quality of Wikipedia by encouraging editors to cite the sources they used when adding content. If sources are left unreferenced, it may count as original research, which is not allowed. Can you provide in the article specific references to any books, articles, websites or other reliable sources that will allow people to verify the content in the article? You can use a citation method listed at How to cite sources. Thanks! --Eastmain 05:48, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

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