User talk:Billski

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Hello, Billski, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Grahm Junior College. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 03:44, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
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If these people are legitimately notable, then create articles about them that meet WP:N. Then, and only then, they go in the listing for their alma maters. Not everybody who works for a production company becomes notable when that company's production wins an Emmy, for example. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  12:11, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello Orange Mike, or who ever you are. Bill Tarkulich (talk) 12:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)I disagree. You are turning this into a tremendous amount of work. Ostensibly this could turn into a career, as one article begets another article begets another article. argument. There is still no specific, accepted (by whom?) criteria for "notable." I only see one example so far. This is incredibly subjective. You have a definition, I have another. Where is the authoritative definition of "notable", accepted by the Wiki community? Lastly, I don't plan to make this into a career. It's something I tacitly have done on the side. I've become the de-facto historian for our college, recognized by the Grahm community. I don't have time to debate this ad infinitum.
 * The criteria are where they always are, at WP:BIO. Bill, it's not like I'm hostile to GJC; I have a junior college degree myself, from a school with fewer documentably notable alumni than GJC! But our standards are our standards. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  14:59, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Hello Orange Mike, We then must agree to disagree. You are welcome to leave the article in it's deficient state, since it's your program. As a subject matter expert, I'll continue to share the knowledge and expertise into our Alumni web site instead of spending time debating the efforts of well-intended contributors. Good luck to you.Bill Tarkulich (talk) 15:23, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Boston Globe references for Grahm Junior College
Hi: I am wondering whether you ever log in, or maybe are still signed up for e-mail notifications? As I noted at Talk:Grahm Junior College, your efforts in referencing the article were admirable, but unfortunately you didn't give us the titlesof the newspaper articles and I don't have access to the archives. Do you happen to still have a subscription so that you could give us the further information? Yngvadottir (talk) 18:57, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

I have copies of all articles referenced. Ill get to them when time permits, though that will not be until march or april. At this point i have the most xomplete and authoritative history, having met with many former faculty and staff and hundreds of alumni. I don't have much interest in turning my writing into an exhaustive, well documented wiki. I will work on it when prioritys permit.
 * Thank you! Don't worry, you already gave us a good account; it just needs the article details for verification. I'd have filled them in myself if the Globe wasn't so snotty about its archives. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:08, 6 January 2019 (UTC)