User talk:Arthurjamesjr

Just so we're clear, the requirement on Wikipedia is that articles posted on here need to be properly referenced to reliable sources that are independent of the topic, such as media articles about the topic, so that their notability can be properly verified. For instance, the article said that the show will begin airing in May 2009 — but it failed to say what television channel or network the show will be airing on (which is a pretty basic fact about a TV show — what's the point in even trying to promote a show if the reader has absolutely no way of finding out where they can watch it?)

This isn't about creating a bias toward people and things that are already famous, because a lot of things that really aren't very famous at all still manage to meet that standard quite easily — it's about the fact that this is an encyclopedia, not a MySpace clone that exists to help groups of friends shop around their own creative projects.

It's the article's job to demonstrate why the topic belongs in an encyclopedia, by using actual references to show how it's significant — which, again, isn't the same thing as "famous" — and not Wikipedia's job to just uncritically keep everything without regard to whether it actually fits in with what we're here for. Bearcat (talk) 17:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)