User talk:BarnabyJohnson

Please note that WP:USERNOCAT is not a suggestion. Pages in userspace are strictly not allowed to be filed in mainspace categories as if they were finished articles, and that is not a rule you're entitled to choose for yourself not to follow: it's a rule that you must obey, and that you can be editblocked for being disruptive if you do otherwise. Bearcat (talk) 13:27, 6 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Still learning. BarnabyJohnson (talk) 13:35, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Trying to better understand what you are talking about. What is userspace? BarnabyJohnson (talk) 13:58, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Just want to make sure that I am following it properly. BarnabyJohnson (talk) 14:03, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Bearcat It's fine I will just edit existing pages. Creating a new page seems too complicated. Sorry for any disruption. Keep up the great work. BarnabyJohnson (talk) 14:44, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * "Userspace" is when the page is in your personal sandbox, with your username as part of the page title. That's where you can hold projects that you need time to work on, such as articles that might take you a few days to finish, but they can't be treated as if they were already completed articles in the meantime.
 * The other thing you need to be aware of is that sandbox pages require more than what you wrote before they're ready to be moved to a real article. "Executive director of the New Jersey School Boards Association" is not, in and of itself, an "inherently" notable role under our notability criteria — it's not a rule in which he's automatically entitled to have an article just because you can use the organization's own website to verify that he exists, it's a role where his eligibility to have a Wikipedia article would be conditional on the amount of reliable source coverage in real media (newspapers, magazines, books, etc.) that you can cite to demonstrate that his work in the job has made him a subject of public interest and commentary and analysis. It's not "he has a job" that would make him eligible to have an article, in other words — it's "journalists consider his work in the job to be newsworthy".
 * In the state it's in right now, the page just wasn't ready to be moved yet, so I've had to move it back to give you more time to work on it — and consider yourself lucky, because most other administrators would just have speedy deleted it right away. Bearcat (talk) 15:00, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks @Bearcat! I will work on it. I truly appreciate your time and the thorough explanation. BarnabyJohnson (talk) 15:07, 6 May 2023 (UTC)