User talk:Herny118

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Alumni lists
It is not acceptable to add information about yourself anywhere except on your own User page, with very limited exceptions. People added to lists of alumni at a specific school must have an article in Wikipedia or should be WP:Notable. Please stop adding yourself to the Washington Union High School alumni list, as you have now done three times on May 1 and May 2. *Unless you have done something notable that you haven't mentioned (personal recognition from Bill Gates on network news or being 8 feet tall, say), then you are not yet notable. Find a cure for spam or something, then I'll write your article.--Hjal (talk) 06:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

In response to your message on my page, there is no real agreement on who should be listed in an alumni list for a high school or college. There are editors who think that it should only be people with their own WP articles. I think that it should be anybody who has an article, who is clearly "notable" (meaning that they have received substantive coverage by a newspaper or other reliable source) even if there is not enough material about them to write a separate article, or who were "notable" for what they did at high school, even if the documentation is only available on a school's or other organization's website (e.g., a state sports record or championship). Molly West Googles pretty well. The coverage that she has received as a new model seems enough to me to put her in a list of alumni, although it would be good to have a reference that shows that she's a model and that she went to Washington. There isn't enough information available in a quick search to justify a separate article. I put most of the people in the alumni list at Tamalpais High School. I'm making a more inclusive list for a separate page, which is still in my sandbox. Several people have had articles added after I listed them in the school's article. For more advice, see WikiProject Schools and Lists (stand-alone lists). Good luck, --Hjal (talk) 15:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)