Talk:Richard Evans

Richard Ingham Evans

Earlier today, I added to the Richard Evans disambiguation page the name and a brief but somewhat detailed identifying description of a person who does not yet have a Wikipedia article: Richard Ingham Evans.

I have previously seen Wikipedia disambiguation pages that include names for which there is not yet an article, so I do not believe this violates Wikipedia rules, but I know the practice is rare. So I thought it would help if I were to add this explanatory note.

(1) I do not presently have the knowledge and technical skills to create a new Wikipedia article myself. (Nor am I presently willing to create a Wikipedia account for myself, which appears to now be a requirement in order for someone to be able to create new Wikipedia articles. I do not need to receive credit for my occasional and often OCD-ish contributions, and I prefer to retain my anonymity.) And even the process of merely requesting that a new article be created appears to be a lot of work and hassle, notwithstanding that there is a Wizard for that purpose. So I did not attempt to create or even request a new Wikipedia article in Evans's name.

(2) Although Evans does not yet have a Wikipedia entry, he does have a Twitter account (@Ringham7) with just under 3,000 followers (I know that's not all that many) —

Richard Ingham Evans (Ringham7) on Twitter

— and he is presently listed on the Australian Open's Web site as one of the radio commentators who covered the 2014 Australian Open:

MEET THE AO RADIO TEAM

His biography on the Australian Open radio commentary page reads as follows:

RICHARD EVANS - Richard has been covering tennis since the days of Lew Hoad and Rod Laver, and as a news correspondent covered two US presidential elections and reported from the wars in Vietnam and Cambodia. He has written or edited 17 books on cricket, rugby and tennis, including a biography of John McEnroe and the official history of the Davis Cup’s first 100 years. His radio career began with CBS in New York, and he commentated for BBC Radio for 20 years. He lives in Florida and has a 15-year-old son.

(Emphasis of his name in original, second and third emphases added. His Twitter page indicates that he resides in London, England as well as Delray Beach, Florida.)

Moreover, one of his books is quoted on the Wikipedia page for former professional tennis player Charlie Pasarell (Open Tennis: The First Twenty Years (1988)), and two others are listed in the "Further reading" section of John McEnroe's Wikipedia entry: McEnroe: A Rage for Perfection (1982), and McEnroe: Taming the Talent (1990).

(Thus, although his mini-bio on the Australian Open radio commentary page just says "a biography of John McEnroe", it would appear that he has actually written at least two biographies of McEnroe. On the other hand, the later biography might — for all I know — simply be an updated and expanded version of the earlier one.)

So he clearly is a person of some note, and he has turned up on Wikipedia before. I think he rates a Wikipedia page of his own.

But I am not the person to create it. What I have stated above is 100 percent of what I presently know about the man! (And I learned it just a few hours ago, via Google, in the course of trying to do some clean-up edits to the page on Charlie Pasarell. Before today I never heard of the guy.)

If I could have created a stub, I would have, and then I would have put the info from and about his Twitter page and the Australian Open radio commentary page into the stub (with links, of course) — so that someone who actually knows what he is doing could use that info and those links as a starting point for a proper Wikipedia entry about Evans. But it no longer appears possible for ordinary mortals to create an article stub. So I added his name to the Richard Evans page and wrote this explanatory note instead.

2001:5B0:24FF:3CF0:0:0:0:2F (talk) 14:04, 29 July 2014 (UTC)