User talk:Jamesclunie

AfD nomination of Roy Batchelor
An editor has nominated Roy Batchelor, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not"). Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. Please note: This is an automatic notification by a bot. I have nothing to do with this article or the deletion nomination, and can't do anything about it. Jayden54Bot 17:34, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

If you want to keep the article
and he seems a worthy subject for an article, but if you would like the article to remain you must write it in the WP style, which includes: and, most important, giving some 3rd party sources. A website at a university etc. can be one, but it cannot be the only one. Book reviews are fine, or a newspaper stories. Print or web is OK, but not from a list or a blog. These is, very  unfortunately, some prejudice against people from the academic world.
 * saying in the first sentence something to dramatically demonstrate notability, like "A.b. is an internationally-known professor of X at, winner of the XYZ prize and 10 honorary doctorates", or A.B. is a notable authority on Whatever. She is ... (etc) (whatever applies best). Use the exact wording I recommend, including either the word "notable" or "internationally-known" or "nationally-known"; do not use "famous" -- May sound silly, but that is what many people look for here.
 * listing college degrees with university and year -- and putting the university names in double brackets  and listing important awards,  important memberships and offices held --a list is more readable than paragraphs
 * listing books published as formal references style: Author, title, Publisher, year ISBN if possible.
 * listing some major published papers, say how many total. Do not just link to Google, list the most prestigious papers. State the importance the journals are. Say how many other papers cited them.

If you do not do this right away, the article mayy end up by being deleted in a day or two-.If this happens, just recreate it, but take you time--maybe in a week after careful preparation I apologize for not having the time to help  personally. DGG 23:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)