User talk:AKHitchcock

Sarah Anne Johnson
Firstly, it's important to understand that nobody is entitled to a Wikipedia article — she probably would qualify for a properly written article that cited reliable sources, but a person is not entitled to a résumé-style article that just asserts her existence before delving into a long bulleted list of her art shows, nor are they entitled to an article that's referenced only to primary sources.

You're always welcome to try recreating the article if you're able to do better than that first version, but what you need to do is as follows:
 * 1) Ensure that the article actually makes a substantive claim of notability that complies with our inclusion rules for people. (There's a subsection for artists which can provide additional assistance in that regard, but she can still qualify for an article without meeting those specific criteria, as long as you can credibly prove that she passes WP:BASIC.)
 * 2) Ensure that it's actually written as a real article, and not just as a brief introduction on top of a résumé list. You can try perusing some of our better articles about people at,  or  if you need some guidance about what a good article should look like. That doesn't mean that you have to be able to write an article in that quality class right off the bat — most articles on Wikipedia got to that level over time, through collaborative editing and improvement, rather than starting off already there — but it does represent the type of format you need to follow.
 * 3) Sourcing needs to be to real secondary sources. That means newspaper or magazine articles, radio or television coverage, books, and on and so forth — a person does not qualify for an article on here if all you can add for "sourcing" is her own webpage and the webpages of the galleries where she's had shows. If she's had a show at the Art Gallery of Ontario, for instance, then an article about or review of the show in The Globe and Mail or the National Post or the Star or the Sun or NOW or The Grid would be an acceptable secondary source, but the AGO's own press release about it on its own website is a primary source. Primary sources can be acceptable for some confirmation of facts once you've added enough secondary sources to properly demonstrate that she passes our notability rules, but an article is not allowed to stand on here if it relies exclusively on primary sources the way your first version did.

Finally, if you need time to work on the article then I'd recommend that you start it in your own sandbox space at User:AKHitchcock/Sarah Anne Johnson — it can be moved into articlespace when it's properly compliant with our sourcing and formatting rules. Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 19:06, 11 March 2014 (UTC)