User talk:IntoThinAir/Archive 9

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Bios

I'm quite impressed by your careful work on bios. However, they're sometimes formatted in a way which makes them relatively difficult to read online. People reading WP usually expect a very brief lede paragraph, followed by clearly indicated sections on the person's life and career, each of them if extensive usually divided into paragraphs of 2 or 3 sentences corresponding to phases of their life and work.

I've rewritten some of your bios accordingly. You might want to look at what I've done at Marc Morano and Joseph Bast. I can't force you to use this style, but I hope you can be persuaded to see the advantages. To some extent it's an accessibility issue: remember that many people nowadays read WP on portable devices--even smartphones--and long sections are particularly unwieldy on such small screens.

If you do agree with me, you might want to look at some of your others. DGG ( talk ) 01:55, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Yeah thanks. I will keep that in mind in the future. Jinkinson (talk) 01:57, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of H. Hugh Fudenberg

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Christopher Shaw (neuroscientist) (September 6)

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Medical veritas board etc

I have to say that, in my opinion, you are creating pages and categories that relate to unnoteworthy subjects. A category of "member of the medical veritas editorial board" is an example. I think you should take the time to remove this category. It simply cannot be that an encyclopedia lists connections of people in this way. We would end up with lists of people who live in the same street, or who went to Kenya for their vacation. Or individuals would have hundreds, or thousands, of categories after their name. The journal itself is of no note. Similarly, you have listed conferences by an anti-vaccine fringe group. Are we now to start lists of conferences of thousands or tens of thousands of organizations.

In my view, there is plenty to do already without introducing a whole new universe of fringe obsessions. I'm tempted to put a lot of this stuff up for deletion, but I think it would be better if you voluntarily focussed on encyclopedic topics. Just my opinion, but previous responses above suggest that I'm not alone in raising worries with you. Bluehotel (talk) 10:35, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

You're probably right about that category. To this end I have nominated the category about medical veritas for speedy deletion. And just for the record I do not like the National Vaccine Information Center any more than you do. I do, however, think that their conferences are notable given that many well known cranks/quacks have attended them. Jinkinson (talk) 21:08, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Josh Willis

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A tag has been placed on Josh Willis requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but 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. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable.

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Just as anyone can write an article here, anyone can try to delete one, whether or not they understand the criteria. This happens especially for articles on people who work on his sort of subject. There's no way of avoiding it, but there are many of us who will help you. Let me know on my talk p. if it does get sent to afd . DGG ( talk ) 05:38, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Protection policy#Pending changes protection, the policy determining which pages can be given pending changes protection by administrators. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:34, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Jinkinson (talk) 20:35, 8 September 2013 (UTC)