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Please help prevent the patrick.net wikipedia page from being deleted


               
2016 Aug 28, 11:27am   21,018 views  85 comments

by Patrick   follow (59)  

I created a wikipedia page on patrick.net, here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick.net

It was instantly deleted as "not notable". Ugh, doesn't make you want to add anything to wikipedia, does it? But then it re-appeared a day later, with a request for discussion, here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Patrick.net

Please comment on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Patrick.net

Thanks!

#wikipedia

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1   turtledove   @   2016 Aug 28, 12:18pm  

Have you ever been on the news? In the news? Have you or your site ever been written about by a third party academic source? What about your book? Have you or your site or your book been mentioned by anyone else's wiki page?

Basically, your wiki page must be neutral, verifiable, and noteworthy. Noteworthy would include an article being written about you or your work... as long as it's a third-party source that's reasonably credible... So you can't author your own article, for example... and then cite that as why you are noteworthy. What you write about yourself, your site, your book, must be verifiable through a third-party source. So references are really important to prove neutrality.... references to media outlets shows notoriety.... and the very fact that the references exist goes to verifiability.

Also, you need more than one person editing your page. That shows interest outside of you, yourself. The getting people talking about your page is a good idea and will help.

After this I start charging you. Just kidding.

2   turtledove   @   2016 Aug 28, 12:22pm  

@Patrick

Oh, this is going to be an easy fix. Now that I've looked at your page, I see the answers to my questions about notoriety and verifiability are YES and YES. You just didn't set the page up right. You need to link to the actual stories. Then, you need to link Nightline, for example, to the Nightline wiki page. What were the articles about? Were they about you or your site or your book? Or all of it?

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