Talk:William D. Eggers

Move
William (Bill) Eggers → William (Bill) D. Eggers &mdash; Bill Eggers requested the article name change Jegilmore (talk) 16:34, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ...so? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but really... why should we care about what some (unverifiable) peron may desire?  We have policies which control article titles. —  V = I * R  (talk) 18:37, 7 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Removed template from stale move request. Page has been moved to William D. Eggers per WP:NCP and third-party sources. Station1 (talk) 02:11, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Notability
I believe that the notability tag should be removed. While there may be some issues about the other aspects of the article, William Eggers does count as a notable individual. He coined the term Government 2.0 to refer to the increasing use of IT in government applications and has written several books. The article should make it pretty clear that Wikipedia users may have an interest in researching this individual. Allthingstoallpeople (talk) 19:13, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

BLP references
This article has been updated to include relevant references for the biographical information. The unreferencedBLP tag is therefore no longer appropriate, so it should be removed. Allthingstoallpeople (talk) 17:31, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
I am investigating the Conflict of Interest tag. It seems that the article was created by a colleague of the article's subject. I am investigating further to understand if the article was intended to be an objective history of Mr. Eggers as a prominent individual. Allthingstoallpeople (talk) 17:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Update: What I believe happened is that a colleague of Mr. Eggers created the page out of a desire to communicate Mr. Eggers' thought leadership in Government 2.0. At the time the colleague did not understand fully Wikipedia's policies related to articles about Living Persons. I have reserarched Mr. Eggers closely and believe his contributions merit inclusion in Wikipedia. That said, his views are not wholly without dissenters, so I researched these as well and added their views to balance the article. This avoids the conflict of interest issue. Allthingstoallpeople (talk) 17:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Clean up
Overall, this article has been cleaned up to meet Wikipedia standards. Minor issues related to wikification remain, so I have left that tag. I'd appreciate other Wikipedia editors' opinions on what remains to be improved to wikify the article. Allthingstoallpeople (talk) 17:28, 29 October 2009 (UTC)