User talk:CurtKol

Welcome!
Hi CurtKol! I noticed your contributions and wanted to welcome you to the Wikipedia community. I hope you like it here and decide to stay.

As you get started, you may find this short tutorial helpful:

Alternatively, the contributing to Wikipedia page covers the same topics.

If you have any questions, we have a friendly space where experienced editors can help you here:

If you are not sure where to help out, you can find a task here:

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date.

Happy editing! I dream of horses (Contribs) (Talk) 23:42, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Student list at Michael Stonebraker
Dear Curt,

Bringing the discussion here regarding the student list at Michael Stonebraker. I removed your name, and several others, not because of your edit but because it called attention to an issue with the section which was essentially an uncurated and indiscriminate list of students.

Wikipedia is not a CV (WP:NOTCV), and not a LinkedIn page, which means it's not a place to share all of an academic's students with an up-to-date statement about their current position. The norm appears to be rather to list those that are notable elsewhere on Wikipedia, typically those that have their own article, or at least some reference demonstrating WP:Notability. In this case, I saw others who were listed as CEOs of various companies, with a mention on the wiki page for those companies, so I left those names as well.

Notability is not so easy to judge, so I may have gotten it wrong. I assume your edits are in good faith, so perhaps you have some thoughts on what criteria should be used here for inclusion? In the worst case, your edits could be seen as self-promotional, which I am sure was not your intention.

Best regards, Caleb Stanford (talk) 06:23, 18 January 2022 (UTC)