User talk:Delfinus~enwiki

We have pretty harsh policies about self-advertisement and autobiography
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Thanks, Orange Mike. I absolutely take your points about the need for neutrality and avoiding self-advertisement, but I still think it's a shame that a list of authors of a particular genre should be limited to those notable enough to have their own pages; this means the list is not comprehensive. I'm striving to make more than a personal point here. If for instance I were looking up names in a field I'm not familiar with - such as researchers in particle physics - (I don't even know if such a list exists,) I'd like to feel I was being given as full a list as possible, so that I could then follow up and make my own mind up about whether those listed are "notable." Delfinus (talk) 19:22, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * But that's not what we do here. Wikipedia is very explicitly not a directory; if you want a directory, go to a directory. Our lists are lists of persons, topics, etc. already documented as notable enough that an article can be and has been written about them. "Up-and-coming" has no place here; neither does original research, nor non-notable neologisms.

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