User talk:Jmmendelson

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Speedy deletion nomination of Jeff Mendelson


A tag has been placed on Jeff Mendelson requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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Reply
Hi, Jerry. I deleted your recent article because it did not provide independent verifiable sources to enable us to verify the facts or show that it meets the notability guidelines. It is now wikipedia policy that biographical articles about living people must have independent verifiable references. As a matter of policy, all biographies of living people will be deleted if they do not have references. Although you gave an "External links" section, which I took as intended to be references, self-made sources such Linkedin and Facebook are not independent reliable sources.

The lack of wikilinks within the text, even to say New York City, makes it look as if this has been copied from somewhere else, and may be a copyright violation. . Copyrighted text is not allowed in Wikipedia, as outlined in this policy. That applies even to pages created by you or Jeff, unless they state clearly that the text is public domain. There are ways to donate copyrighted text to Wikipedia, as described here; please note that simply asserting on the talk page that you are the owner of the copyright isn't sufficient. I didn't actually check for that by running a search because I was deleting on notability.

The lack of wikilinks also hinders notability. I don't know if working with Frank Field, Storm Field, Irv Gikofsky, Craig Allen and Linda Church is significant because they are not linked to articles.

You have an obvious conflict of interest when it comes to editing articles about this subject. Thank you for declaring your interest - your honesty in this matter is appreciated. It's difficult to be objective about your son. You need to note that people might add critical comments, and as long as they are correctly referenced, that's fine.

You may be right that Jeff is notable enough for an article. If you recreate, make sure you provide proper independent sources, preferably with in-line references, so we can see what is supported by each ref. It must be in your own words, a bot will eventually search for close paraphrasing of on-line sources even if I don't.

Hope this helps  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  07:18, 15 January 2012 (UTC)