User talk:Edward.Bass01

re: Undeletion request for Edward Bass (Director)
I'm not sure why you left that note on my userpage. I was not involved in either the AFD debate or the actual deletion of that page. All I did was clean up a broken redirect left-over from a pagemove that occurred just prior to the deletion.

I will offer you some advice since you commented, though. First, IMDB is an unverified, user-generated content source. As such, it fails Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources and can not be used to substantiate arguments such as a subjects appropriateness for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Likewise, being on "various social networking sites" is irrelevant. I, too, am on a great many social networking sites yet I am entirely inappropriate for the encyclopedia. Your claim that he "has been published in hundreds of news articles" may be evidence but it depends entirely on the depth of coverage. To meet Wikipedia's generally accepted inclusion standards for biographies, the article must be primarily about the subject, not merely a passing mention of him/her or a reference to him/her as a source. In this case, we would probably be looking for in-depth biographies detailing influential work across years or major awards won. Merely being a "Hollywood executive" is not a sufficient claim.

If you can provide evidence of that kind of in-depth biography written by independent and reliable sources, the page may be appropriate for the encyclopedia.

All that said, I strongly caution you to not write the article. Based on your chosen username, you appear to have an inherent conflict of interest. Writing an article about yourself is invariably a bad idea. Rossami (talk) 19:47, 14 June 2011 (UTC)