User talk:Drcrutch1

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August 2018
Hello Drcrutch1, There were some problems with the notable alumni names you added to Snowflake High School. Our usual practice is to Wikilink each name in the list to its Wikipedia article. This helps show the name is notable and lets the reader quickly get to more information. Then we add references as needed to support that they are both notable and an alumnus of the school. I've changed what you added and included the references you mentioned in your edit summaries. There are still two issues:
 * 1) The Wikipedia article on Travis Walton UFO incident does not say he attended Snowflake High School - so a citation is needed to confirm that.
 * 2) There are no articles for the other three names and their references don't support that they are alumni and aren't enough to show notability either.

I'm leaving Travis Walton there for now with a citation needed tag. The other three names I'll remove. I suggest you add articles for them if you feel they satisfy Wikipedia notability and after that add them again. Sorry to be bringing you bad news. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia. Gab4gab (talk) 15:13, 2 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Because you feel that Jay Crutchfield and David Lee Decker are notable I suggest you add articles for them. Until they have articles other editors (including me) will continue to remove their names when you add them to a list of notable alumni. Gab4gab (talk) 23:47, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

If you feel an individual with a Wikipedia biography article is not notable you have methods available to attempt to have the article deleted. See WP:HOWTODELETE for details. I have to warn you though that it is usually hopeless to attempt to have an biography article about a member of a state legislature deleted. Holders of state-wide office are considered notable. See WP:POLITICIAN where the notability criteria is detailed. While an individual does have an article it's not helpful to remove their name from notable alumni list simply because you personally feel they aren't notable. I understand that you may disagree with some of the Wikipedia policy and guidelines. To some extent I suppose we all do. That said, we try to follow them as they are until they're changed. Gab4gab (talk) 00:07, 3 August 2018 (UTC)