User talk:Robdn

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Robdn, good luck, and have fun. --PamD 08:32, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome

Hallo, I spotted your note on User talk:DGG and nosily decided to follow it up! Editing Wikipedia is fascinating, and a wonderful retirement hobby, so please stay around and get involved. I see it as an infinite jigsaw puzzle, always something new to add or tidy up to build the big picture, but much more constructive than messing around with bits of cardboard on a table!

There is a general policy that people should not write their own autobiography - see WP:Autobiography - but should wait for other people (those family members, former colleagues and students perhaps) to create and edit an article if they are really "Notable" in the sense of having coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.

But even if you're not destined to have an article here about yourself, what about that school? From linked-in it looks as if it might be City of Norwich School, which is a bit thin on history, buildings/architecture, in fact anything much except former pupils. If linked-in is right and you're now in Ghana, I'm sure there's a lot of editing needed on articles on that country - maybe you could contribute on its educational system with a professional expertise. Or just join the ranks of those of us who meander around Wikipedia editing wherever we see the need, on any subject under the sun. (eg Stub-sorting, which gets me into all sorts of interesting places.) There's a lot to learn about editing, but it's a very interesting journey.

I'm not quite sure how your note on DGG's page got there, but it looks as if you copied it from somewhere else so lost the linkage in your signature.

Happy Editing! PamD 08:32, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the delay. Basically, I agree with Pam . Our general view is that headmasters are not intrinsically notable, except for a very few of the very most famous schools, & even there it is often disputed. Looking at the page, I see you were headmaster was St Mary's Roman Catholic High School (Herefordshire), which I do not think can really be called famous, though it is definitely notable. I do not think the other material in the article is a claim to encyclopedic importance either.

Looking at the article, though it probably does qualify for a credible claim of importance, which by our practices requires a discussion before deletion if anyone wants to do so; and therefore if you really want me to, I shall restore it and send it for such a discussion.

But I suspect you will only be embarrassed at the result. For the article to be kept , you would need to meet the requirements at WP:BIO, which requires the references to multiple articles talking substantially about you in third party published sources. The article doesn't show any, and I don't se anything relevant on google News or even Google. But if you do know about such sources, then perhaps the article might stand: if so let me know about them on my user talk p.and I'll help you by restoring the article and adding them, and only send to AfD if I decide it warrants it.

As a general rule, a suitable page will be best written by someone without such close Conflict of Interest as one's own autobiography. It's not absolutely impossible to do it properly , but only a very small number of the people who have tried have ever managed it. DGG ( talk ) 04:06, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]