User talk:Mcs37

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Speedy deletion nomination of Petricola pholadiformis
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Nomination of Shafer's Wager for deletion
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Meatsgains (talk) 21:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

December 2016
I am not a representative of Wikipedia or an administrator, but I did notice your questions on the recently-concluded AfD on Shafer's Wager. Having been involved in numerous AfD discussions, I would like to offer the following observations: I hope this is a useful comment. I saw your questions and believe you deserve an answer, even if it is a highly-unofficial one. Thanks. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 23:56, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * "I codified ...Shafer's Wager ...and I wanted to preserve it in Wikipedia..." This kind of statement will always be a red flag to other editors. Aside from the obvious markers for conflict of interest, it also will strike many editors as some combination of trying to use Wikipedia as a soapbox or as a web host for your ideas.  Some editors will even go farther and think this means it is a thing you made up one day that will never be notable.
 * "Do I need to get the New York Times to mention it?" It certainly wouldn't hurt.
 * "What does it take to create multiple reliable sources for something I came up with?" You can't just create reliable sources. Even if you did, anything you created about your concept wouldn't be independent.  Does that mean you are doomed?  No.  If you want Wikipedia to notice it, you need to get other people to notice your idea first.  If you publish Shafer's Wager some where (or, more likely, lots of somewheres) and then other sources pick it up and it becomes part of a conversation, then it will generate the third-party sources that are needed.  There isn't a way to have a hypothesis or similar intellectual concept simply added to Wikipedia.