Talk:Allan Sugarbaker

Prominence
I believe that the substance of the article - such as it is - supports the opening claim of the subject's prominence in the RPG industry. If there is some Wiki-specific standard I am not aware of, please put a link to it here. Thanks. Ribonucleic 21:52, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
 * At the moment, the substance of the article all appears to come from ogrecave.com and gibberish.com, neither of which is particularly notable. Further, it's circular for the article to say, "John Smith, head of xyz.com, is famous.  For proof, check his bio on xyz.com, where it says that he's famous."  That kind of thing runs afoul of autobiography guidelines.  In order for someone to have a claim of being "prominent," they need to have other people refer to them that way.  The Wikipedia page needs to supply links to book, magazine and newspaper articles which verify descriptions such as Sugarbaker's "prominence" or the podcast being "popular."  For more info, check Verifiability. As it is, there are so few references on the article, it's actually in danger of being nominated for deletion, but general practice is to give a new article some time to breathe, to see if additional references can be added. --Elonka 02:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the clarification. I'll see what else I can dig up. Ribonucleic 03:25, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Proposed merge with RPG.net
I thought a separate article was warranted by being in the first rank of RPG podcasters, as well as being an administrator of a first rank RPG web site. But I'd rather see it merged than deleted. Ribonucleic 17:38, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think a merge is probably the best choice at this point, and then this article can be turned into a redirect. If in the future, other references emerge which confirm Sugarbaker's notability, an independent article can be easily re-created. --Elonka 18:09, 10 September 2006 (UTC)