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Help me!
Please help me with creating a disambiguation page for "Stephen Kearney." Please either show me how to do it, create it, or point to a page where I can ask for it to be created by someone more skilled than I am.

// Posted by larsona ( Talk ) // 04:32, 15 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Which articles do you want the page to disambiguate between? — Earwig   talk  07:13, 15 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Stephen Kearney and Stephen W. Kearny.


 * Hi Larsona!
 * As there are only two articles with that name, there probably doesn't need to be a diambiguation page for them: have a read of Disambiguation. Does that help some?
 * Yes, thanks. This is precisely why I asked for help. It just seemed like a big contrast between a historical figure and a currently-alive soccer player (it defaults to the soccer player). What else could be done with this, @Shirt58? // Posted by larsona ( Talk ) // 16:37, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh by the way: I declined speedy deletion of Gaya Town (Vidhan Sabha constituency). The Vidhan Sabhas are the equivalents of state legislatures in the USA. Pete AU aka --Shirt58 (talk) 07:16, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Sure thing! can you send me a link to the page? I could not find it in search.

// Posted by larsona ( Talk ) // 04:42, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Dan Hammer draft
Hi I noticed your comment on Draft:Dan_Hammer, specifically where you said "The subject of the article -- the man who apparently created the NASA API -- can not be more notable than the NASA API itself, and there is no page for the NASA API. I recommend that an article be created for the API, and mention him within it... then, and only then, should there be a discussion on if this figure is notable or not."

There are quite a few problems with this comment.

1) A subject can be more notable than their own creation, as they may be known for other things in the their field, plus it should be noted that guidelines for WP:ACADEMICS is much less stringent than those surrounding projects or tangible objects, so you'll actually see this quite often.

2) This sort of ducktails with number one, but the existence or non-existence of a page should not be a standalone criterion for notability. In the same sense that inclusion does not neccessarily denote notability, the opposite is true as well. WP:INN WP:ATA

3) Discussions of notability are always welcome, whether a certain article exists or not.

Sulfurboy (talk) 20:01, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

You're right, I apologize. The comment was made in good faith, I assure you.

The problem that I had with the article was that the content of the article was about his creation, the NASA API, which does not have an article in the English Wikipedia. I gathered the information given to me through WP:AUTHORS (I choose the authors notability guideline because he appears to be the author of the API) to determine that while he has not received significant press coverage, the NASA API has. Also, all the information on the web (yes, I understand that a subject can be notable even if they can't be found on the web) is about the NASA API and mentions him within it.

As of now, I have been removed from the list of contributors to the AfC page by a bot. I misread the stats on my edits, thinking that I since I have 631 live edits, I qualify. I was supposed to read the pie-chart section "main," which actually contains 193 edits. As a result, I imagine that any actions I took while my name was listed as an AfC contributor can be disputed and reviewed.

Thank you for your feedback. I am CONSTANTLY trying to get better as a Wikipedia editor. If you have any more comments for me on my edits, I would LOVE to hear them.

// Posted by larsona ( Talk ) // 20:30, 16 November 2015 (UTC)


 * For reference you should have probably used the academic notability guidelines. The key thing that makes him notable (which I'm not sure if it was already written into the article when you reviewed it) is that he has multiple peer-reviewed works that have been mentioned or sourced in popular media. Sulfurboy (talk) 20:47, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

2016 NLL season page
Hi there... I added a page for the 2016 NLL season and you immediately tagged it with "multiple issues". I've cleaned up all of the redlinks in the templates and added some refs. But I'm not sure what "lack of explanation of the teams" means. Can you remove the "issues" tag if the page is sufficiently fixed, or let me know specifically what you think is missing? Thanks --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 00:47, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks. I removed the tag. It looks good now! ~ Preceding post created by larsona //Talk// 00:51, 18 November 2015 (UTC)