User talk:Chemicalend

Ryan Barnes has been selected as the top Marine Corps Gunnery Instructor out of thousands of instructors. He is an important example of an exemplary United States military officer, and will forever remain significant in the Marine Corps history. He is far more important than Ryan Barnes, the hockey player. It would be a slap in the face to remove this article.
 * we're not dealing with importance exactly, we're really talking about suitability for a general encyclopedia. This means whether it is something that people who are likely to use wikipedia will want to read--in general, this does include many (but not all) popular musicians and athletes and politicians; it generally does not include army officers unless they accomplish  something which becomes newsworthy in a general sense. That means regional or national magazine or newspaper articles, or coverage in television or other media. If you can show that this was noticed, by  other than a hometown paper, this might be suitable. If you can show that it has been the main subject of a feature story in a major Marine corps or general military publication, that might work also.

So what is needed are references; if you can find them, rewrite the article to highlight the newsworthy feature. But I'm afraid we will have to delete it for now unless you can furnish this information very quickly. There's no prejudice against doing an article later when you have the information. To fit our style conventions, use the title Ryan Barnes, USMC If you can get it in now, I can change the title for you. DGG 21:16, 22 June 2007 (UTC)