User talk:Geercom

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Hello, Geercom, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! MelanieN (talk) 22:37, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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Request for an article
Hello! You requested an article to be written about David Geer. I deleted your request because it was in the wrong place (you actually put it on a Wikipedia policy page). The place to request an article is at Requested articles, or more specifically Requested articles/Biography/By profession. For your convenience, I have copied your request below. Welcome to Wikipedia, and I wish you luck with your article idea! In the meantime, may I suggest you do some looking around here, maybe make small corrections in articles that you read, just to get a feel for how things work here. But beware, Wikipedia editing can be habit forming! If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page or here on your own talk page; I will see it. --MelanieN (talk) 22:44, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

You wrote:

I am suggesting a topic for an article. The creative professional, journalist, author David Geer (David D. Geer; David Daniel Geer, who is not to be confused with Dr. David Geer, PhD of the IEEE) meets the criteria: widely cited by peers or successors. David Geer authored several feature academic/technical articles for the IEEE, which have been broadly cited in hundreds of academic papers by PhDs who, in turn, have also been very broadly published. At this link, http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ZkKA3fsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&pagesize=100 you will find the Google Scholar page dedicated to David Geer and his published works written for the IEEE. In each row on the left you will find the title of one of the works with David's byline. The title is also a link to that work. In each row on the right, you will find a link to the scholarly academic publications that have cited that specific work. The link appears as a number, which is the number of scholarly works that cite that work by Mr. Geer. Go to the link to find search results for each paper that cites that work. Again, there are several works by David, and hundreds of citations of those works.


 * Hi Melanie, thank you for your help with this. This is where my article suggestion appears now https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Biography/By_profession&oldid=590270694&diff=prev It was reverted? If you get a moment, can you look at this page and tell me what in this case "reverted" means and what the status of the suggestion is?


 * OK, I took a look at what happened. Your request for an article was removed ("reverted") by a very experienced editor. In effect they were saying "no, we won't be creating an article about David Geer". Unfortunately they didn't explain why they reverted it but I think I see why. There were two problems with that request. First, David Geer doesn't really appear to meet our criteria for notability for an article. The relevant criterion is WP:BIO which states that other people must have written significantly ABOUT the subject; I don't find that. You pointed out that some of the articles he has written have gotten multiple citations - in one case, more than 300 - but that criterion is applied to WP:ACADEMIC rather than writers or journalists. It is used to show that an academic has had "a significant impact on their field." The other reason why they might have dismissed your request is WP:Autobiography. Your username suggests that you are David Geer (website Davidgeer.com) or have a close connection to him. Wikipedia's usual advice is NOT to write or promote articles about yourself - on the grounds that if you are truly notable, somebody will eventually write one about you. So I guess the bottom line for your request for an article is "not now". Sorry! --MelanieN (talk) 18:13, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Would the bio be more appropriate under Academics?
 * No, because he is not an academic. (Sorry, I used the wrong link above; corrected now.) The relevant standard would be WP:AUTHOR. --MelanieN (talk) 16:13, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
 * P. S. Sorry, this must all seem rather abrupt to you. You came here in good faith to request an article and you deserve a little more explanation. Here's the thing: Wikipedia is not a website like Facebook where anyone and everyone can have a page. Wikipedia is an international encyclopedia, and it has standards for what kind of articles it can have, in order to maintain its credibility and integrity as an encyclopedia. The subject of the article has to be something or someone you would expect to find in an encyclopedia. There are thousands of volunteers like me who try to keep Wikipedia "encyclopedic," and one of the ways we do it is by enforcing agreed-upon community standards about what kind of subjects are "notable" or worthy of inclusion in an international encyclopedia.
 * I'm just a volunteer here, I don't have any special tools or any kind of position of authority. So it's not up to me to decide whether you get an article or not. In fact I enjoy writing articles, and if I thought a David Geer article had any chance of being accepted, I would write it myself. And you are free to write the article yourself, if you feel strongly enough about it and can't find a volunteer Wikipedian to write it for you. But I think the chances are slim that the article would survive the community evaluation process. To see how articles about authors or journalists are evaluated, see the discussions at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Authors. I hope you understand now that this isn't an arbitrary thing. Any questions or comments, go ahead and I'll try to explain further. --MelanieN (talk) 18:13, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Geercom, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes or publicises a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages; user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.

If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: which appears inside of the speedy deletion  tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy deletion candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. &#124; Uncle Milty  &#124;  talk  &#124;  23:12, 6 December 2015 (UTC)