User talk:Jonatpower
They appeared to have forgotten to tell you the article you created is up for deletion now at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonathan Power. You need to comment there in order to save it from deletion. Dream Focus 03:48, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
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{{unblock|Your reason here}}, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)- I noticed that via a post here, you stated that you are someone other than Jonathan Power. It is against our username policy to have a username that makes you out to be someone other than yourself (ie, that you are John Smith when you are actually Jane Green), so you will need to choose a new username accordingly or open up a new account. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:50, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Conflict of interest[edit]
Hello, Jonatpower. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest.
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 07:59, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Notability[edit]
I thought I'd explain notability a little more. Basically what it all boils down to is coverage in reliable sources and verifiability. There has to be coverage about Power in sources that are independent and in reliable places. For example, if one of the papers he works for were to write about him, it would be in their best interest to write about him positively. Because of that, we consider such reports to be WP:PRIMARY sources, meaning that they are directly related to Powers. Also, any articles written by Powers would be seen as primary sources as well. Just being a journalist doesn't automatically give notability and his association with notable persons does not extend notability either, as notability is WP:NOTINHERITED.
By large we mostly require sources to just back up notability rather than verify things, but in some instances it is required. For example, when it comes to the film It's Ours Whatever They Say, almost all of the sources I'm finding list someone else as the director. Even the official listings for the film list another person as the director. Because the BFI and other places list her as the director, we'd need something other than his say-so that he was the director. What I recommend as far as that goes is that you get Barraclough to contact the various film locations (BFI, MIFF, etc) and correct this in their systems. Until that happens, the information will continually get removed from Power's article if it ever gets re-created. Even after that gets fixed, there's still a question over whether or not the award is enough to merit being kept on that basis alone. Most awards aren't enough to keep on just the award alone. Of the rest of the awards, most can't give notability because they're considered to be trivial per Wikipedia's guidelines. I have to highlight that because while an award might seem like quite an achievement to you or me, Wikipedia tends to view less than 5% of any awards ever given as able to give notability in any context. That's because there are so many awards out there and at some point they have to draw the line.
In any case, at this point it's all up to WP:DELETIONREVIEW. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 08:18, 10 June 2014 (UTC)