Talk:David Kohn Architects

Notability issue, and maybe COI or paid editing issues
Hey, I just tagged this article using Notability. The tag should not be removed by anyone unless some consensus to do so is established here.

I question it because I reviewed the creator User:Infinite12's contributions and they look dubious to me (sorry, this is just a fact). So I wonder if this is a paid job, to pump up some tiny one- or two-person architecture firm. Infinite12, could you please answer directly whether you have received or are likely to receive any compensation or else of value for creating/developing this article? And please answer: what association do you have with this firm?

It is my understanding that Wikipedia does not entirely prohibit paid editing or editing by persons having some wp:COI, but disclosure is needed and there are other requirements in policies about this, I am not sure exactly what those requirements are (Paid editing (guideline) was one proposal not approved that addresses the topic, there must be more recent stuff.) --Doncram (talk) 20:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)


 * , David Kohn Architects was created by cutting and pasting most of the contents of David Kohn (architect). User:Diannaa, thank you for correcting the attribution. I hope Kohn would not be interested in paying a specialist to copy text so he could have two articles rather than one. Kohn has high profile contracts which get covered in the architecture press so he is notable, however he does not need a separate article for his practice at this stage. I have therefore removed the tag and redirected the article to David Kohn (architect). If there is no consensus for this I would be happy to take it to Articles for Deletion. TSventon (talk) 16:43, 30 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks User:Diannaa and User:TSventon for figuring out what was going on here, i.e. that the separate article here was mainly copied from the one for the architect himself, created in or before 2016. Yes, I agree with the redirect of this back to the architect article.  It is a tad confusing that my separate comment above was removed from here and copied to the Talk page of the other article, but I get it now, and I will comment there. --Doncram (talk) 23:56, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

User:Doncram, apologies, I should have mentioned moving your other comment in my reply above. I look forward to your response in the other article talk page. TSventon (talk) 09:18, 31 August 2019 (UTC)