User talk:Gregoryptm

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I am wicked confused. Is this my User page? I have no idea how to create one. Someone just sent me internal mail that i could have one but I have no idea why I'd want one, except to maybe say:

1) I am currently working on two projects inside wikipedia.

a) One is an entry for Mark Pesce whom I believe meets the "standards" for fame and notoriety. Mark has been involved in the Internet as a contributing technologist and scholar since at least the middle 1980s.  He co-invented Virtual Reality Modelling Language. He's written eight books on tech-related subjects and dozens of articles.  I met him twelve years ago when I was writing for Wired and did an extensive interview with him for a webzine, and have more or less followed his career trajectory ever since.  Recently I did a search for him and found no main entry for him and a few dead links inside posts related to VRML or Terrence McKenna, with whom he also worked closely on several projects before McKenna died.  In the past couple of days I've had some time to kill so I put together his page.  If anyone has issue with whether or not he's significant enough, just go look at it, then tell me what you think.

b) My other project is one in which I have extensive knowledge and was similarly surprised that there was nothing of significance in here about him, and that would be the page of Allan Houser. Allan was one of the seminal Native American artists of the twentieth century, combining a keen understanding of Native iconography with the Modernist sculptural techniques current in the middle of the century, in the vein of Jean Arp, Constantine Brancusi, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and others.  In the course of putting together his page (which isn't finished) I have also discovered a number of other Native American entries which are either stubs or were non-existent as I began to link to them, leading me to create more.

All in all, I'm having a marvelous time participating in Wikipedia. If anyone wants to question the authenticity of what I'm entering, please let me know what your concerns are and I will be happy to address them.

Gregoryptm 19:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

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Yes, it's not original research. I should've cited it. Sorry.,

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Feedback needed
Hello Gregoryptm. May I impose upon you to review the edit war conversation at Talk:Dorothy Dunn? I see where you have made contributions to the article previously. The edit war concerns Uyvsdi's replacement of Dorothy Dunn On Primitive Art with a link to a copyvio of the same article which I reverted and then removed from Wiki myself because of a possible conflict of interests. I am the author of the article so if you feel that it is a conflict that's fine, but the consensus thus far seems to be that it's removal was not an improvement to the article. Thanks.Amerindianarts (talk) 03:01, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

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Deletion discussion about Andrew C. Stone
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I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Andrew C. Stone should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Articles for deletion/Andrew C. Stone.

If you're new to the process, articles for deletion is a group discussion (not a vote!) that usually lasts seven days. If you need it, there is a guide on how to contribute. Last but not least, you are highly encouraged to continue improving the article; just be sure not to remove the tag about the deletion nomination from the top.

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On notability
Hey, Gregory, I saw your post to the deletion discussion. First, let me say that you shouldn't worry about it! Articles get deleted all the time, so don't let it turn you off of editing; nobody will hold it against you. Think of it as a learning experience.

Now, on notability: simply selling a million units does not constitute notability for Wikipedia, no. Notability has its own definition on Wikipedia. It can mean several different things depending on the subject, but the baseline of all notability, the minimum standard, is expressed in what we call the the general notability guideline. Basically, the GNG says that articles must have significant coverage in multiple reliable sources that are independent of each other and the subject of the article. There are other, additional criteria that may be applied (for articles about people, you can find more specific guidance at this page), but significant coverage in multiple reliable sources is always a necessary minimum standard.

There are a few reasons for this. First and foremost, it stems from one of our founding principles of verifiability. You see, the only ay we can be at all confident of the material we have is by making sure that it is backed by a reliable source. Ideally, Wikipedia can have only content that is able to be cited to a reliable source. (In practice of course, this doesn't always happen, but we try the best we can to accomplish this.) The main purpose of the notability guideline is to assure that we have enough reliable sources to be able to write verifiable information about a subject; if there aren't enough sources, then we can't write anything verifiable, and without anything to write, we can't have an article.

Another purpose of the notability guideline is that it establishes an objective, meaningful way to determine what does and doesn't get an article. Everyone can agree that Wikipedia should not have an article about every single person on the planet (well, most everyone, at least), but beyond that, there's too much room for argument. If we say that "Okay, a million sales of mobile apps makes you notable enough", people will say "But a million is so arbitrary! I don't like that!" Or maybe, "Hey, I got 999,950 sales, we should round up!" Or perhaps "That's too easy, it needs to be a million favorable ratings!" Or something else; the list is potentially infinite. The way notability works now is a good way to have an objectively determined criterion that is also meaningful.

Of course, it's very possible that I've missed a few reliable sources! If you can find any and add them to the article, that will go a *long* way towards a favorable outcome at the deletion discussion (it's not a foregone conclusion at all!)  Again, don't let this put you off! The rules of Wikipedia are unfortunately (but necessarily) complex to learn; it takes everyone a while to master. Once you get used to it though, it's actually relatively simple. As I said, tons of people get their articles deleted from time to time; as long as you learn from it, nobody will hold it against you. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer at my talk page, or you can try asking the Teahouse, which is a place for new users to get answers to their questions in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Finally, regardless of the outcome of the discussion, thanks for trying to improve Wikipedia! Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 14:50, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
 * As I said on the deletion discussion, AfDs generally run for seven days, so you have plenty of time to add more sources. Don't worry about that. :) Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 15:09, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

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Hey, Gregory, I just wanted to follow up with you about the deletion discussion. After looking at the sources, I think that there might be enough to satisfy the general notability guideline, but since it seems to be a pretty borderline case to me, I'm going to leave the AfD open. However, I've changed my implicit delete vote to a weak keep vote, so as things stand, if nobody else voices an opinion, after seven days, the discussion will be closed and the article will not be deleted. The article definitely needs work, though, so I'd encourage you to keep working on it! Thanks. Writ Keeper &#9863;&#9812; 23:50, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

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Why couldn't people add me to Wikipedia?
Gregoryptm -

You probably don't know me from Adam. My name is Mark Pesce, and I'm the co-inventor of VRML (look it up) and a well known speaker about interactive & technology issues worldwide. I was then a participant in an event in Melbourne with Amanda Beersley of Zoe's foundation. My five books have sold around 50,000 copies worldwide over the last decades. I was on the TV weekly here in Australia.

yet, for some reason, when no fewer than some people have tried to create bio pages on me - even though I am referenced at least few times in the Wikipedia itself - they have been denied. The last time - just then - it was by Zoe.

Could you please explain why?

cheers,

Mark Pesce (talk) 07:27, 6 July 2019 (UTC)