User talk:James E. Scholz

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Mary Lou Harkness
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Advice
I'm a librarian myself, and I would like to see as many bios of librarians here as we can justify. In order to accomplish this, it is necessary to make sure that all the articles we do have are as strong as possible.

I've worked a great deal here on academic bios in various fields, and perhaps I can give you some general suggestions: I would suggest you revise this, and also those previously submitted. I'll look in a few days. (Alternatively, I'll do the rewriting myself, as I have done for hundreds of bios, because I do not want to lose the articles).  DGG ( talk ) 04:43, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) The length of the bio should be proportionate to the importance of the subject. Excessively elaborate bios for relatively minor people tend to result in someone nominating them for deletion. For librarians, they have rather frequently succeeded. There is no consensus that the head of even a major university library is notable. For some individuals, WP:PROF may apply on the basis of  their research, but usually it does not. For faculty hat a library school, it has proven difficult to convince people that they are authorities in their field, because the citation figures are usually rather low as judged by other subjects, due to the limited number of journals in the literature of librarianship
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 * actually, seeing the image stuff above, to avoid having you need to reupload them, I', going to in the meantime accept it.  DGG ( talk ) 04:44, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Files for deletion
See Files for deletion/2015 March 4. --Stefan2 (talk) 18:59, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

Removed file from article
I removed "File:Mary_Lou_Harkness.jpg" from the Mary Lou Harkness article. Does this action fix the issue mentioned in Files for deletion/2015 March 4? James E. ScholzJames E. Scholz (talk) 22:53, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

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Feel free to delete it. James E. Scholz (talk) 21:44, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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Re: Creation of new accounts blocked on campus
Hi James, I'd need to know the IP address/range you're working with ... but honestly, rescinding the block might not help you all that much. There's a limit of six accounts created per day on a single IP address, and depending on how your network's set up, your students might reach that limit very quickly. To solve this, either I could give you the event coordinator right to allow you to create accounts for your students, or they could try to create them on their mobile phones or at home. Also, I might not be up for much longer as it's way past my bedtime. Graham 87 17:00, 9 November 2021 (UTC)

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