User talk:John willoughby bass

article on John willoughby the bass player
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed your contribution to John willoughby but I have reverted it so that it is again a redirect to John Willoughby. I'm not sure that the bass player is notable enough for a Wikipedia article, in other words, I'm not sure that the details of his biography can be reliably sourced.If you believe that it is, then I suggest that you start the article as a draft under the title Draft:John Willoughby (bass player). Once the content is properly sourced, you can then move the contents to John Willoughby (bass player). I'm also concerned that, given your username, you are John Willoughby or someone close to him. If that's the case, you are, as a general rule, urged not to write about yourself because that places you in a conflict of interest. If you have any questions, do let me know. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 22:30, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * You are correct I am the bass player John Willoughby’s wife.
 * Loads of pages on Wikipedia are written by the person or someone
 * close to them. How else would they get the info? John has been a bass player on the scene in two continents for over 40 years. Just look at Discogs, Allmusic etc. He should have a Wikipedia
 * page as he is far more deserving that half of the folks you have
 * given a page. In my humble opinion.
 * Cheers 108.53.119.242 (talk) 22:42, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, you'd be surprised. Relatively speaking, almost all of the articles on Wikipedia are written by people with no direct relation to the subject. Those that are created with a conflict of interest are tagged as such, rewritten or deleted (when we detect the conflict of interest, of course). This is why we insist that all info in the article is reliably and independently sourced. For instance, if you and your husband are the only ones to know that he was born on, say, March 1st, then that info shouldn't appear in the article. This is also why, perhaps counterintuitively, there is no meritocratic system behind who is chosen for a Wikipedia article: Person X gets an article if some editor finds Person X interesting for some reason or another, and Person X meets the requirements of Notability (people). It's not about who is more "deserving", whatever that means. Cheers, Pichpich (talk) 20:21, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, however I actually know folks that have either written their own page or contributed most of the content. I completely understand the rules otherwise every Tom, Dick or Harry would think they’re worthy
 * of recognition. I guess John will have to wait until someone thinks he’s lofty enough for a page.
 * Cheers! 108.53.119.242 (talk) 20:46, 7 July 2023 (UTC)