Talk:George Roscoe Davis

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This article is going to be one of a series of biographies of notable graduates from George Washington University that I intend to develop over the next couple months.

I am somewhat new to the etiquette of Wikipedia. Should I establish some sort of stub article notation for these biographies so that they will not be deleted before I can complete the project? Mjhowell (talk) 05:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

The first sentence of this article says:
 * In the late 1800s, George Roscoe Davis moved from Maine to Washington, DC to attend classes at Columbian University (later renamed George Washington University) where in 1894 he became a charter member of the Columbian University chapter of Theta Delta Chi.
 * In the late 1800s, George Roscoe Davis moved from Maine to Washington, DC to attend classes at Columbian University (later renamed George Washington University) where in 1894 he became a charter member of the Columbian University chapter of Theta Delta Chi.

That is an absolutely wrong way to start a Wikipedia article. After reading this sentence, we don't know whether he is notable as
 * a politician, or
 * a scientist, or
 * a theologian, or
 * a football player, or
 * a novelist, or
 * a serial murderer, or
 * an entertainer, or
 * an engineer, or
 * the winner of a pie-eating contest,

etc. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:11, 14 October 2009 (UTC)