User talk:Nmeyrowitz

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I undid your edit on Requested articles/Biography/By profession because it looks like based on the edit summary you were intending only to (re-)add an entry, but the edit actually removes a number of entries from the page. I'm guessing this was by accident; feel free to make a new edit that adds your intended requested article here. If you need help with this, feel free to reply to me here or ask for help at the Teahouse (linked above). Thanks!

Also I wanted to thank you for complying with the conflict-of-interest disclosure policy! Happy editing! Dylnuge (Talk • Edits) 22:14, 10 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Dylnuge:
 * Thanks for the response. I didn't mean to mess things up. I will try to be more careful.
 * Maybe you can help me with a conundrum. Before I retired from my first stint in academic and then in industry, i.e., in the late 1980s, I was (and I think I still am) notable for the early work in hypertext and hypermedia (from which Tim Berners-Lee used concepts when creating the WWW), in the 1990s and 2000s for the work at Macromedia on web and Web multimedia software -- Dreamweaver and Flash (on 98% of all computers), and my oral history of those earlier days as well as the software and hardware for my system Intermedia system are in the Computer History museum.
 * There are more than 10 existing Wikipedia articles that have my name in them, several with red links. I know I am not supposed to write my own bio; I simply added the snippet which you referenced to the Requested Article page so that someone could make a page and fill it with something for those red links would point to something. Is that the right way to do things? I assume that the red links are there because some Wikipedia contributors would like their red links to link to a real page, I just don't want to do anything improper. Can you help?
 * Thanks,
 * Norm Nmeyrowitz (talk) 23:29, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * No worries! I've gone ahead and re-added the Norman Meyrowitz entry you were trying to add in that revision, so everything should be good now. This is absolutely the right way to go about things, and I really appreciate your commitment to managing the conflict-of-interest issues here!
 * Regarding notability: In order to demonstrate notability on Wikipedia, we generally look for secondary sources that are reliable, independent of the subject, and contain significant coverage of the subject—without having multiple sources that meet these criteria, there's not enough information to write a verifiable and neutral article. Sources like interviews or oral histories won't meet the independence requirement; we avoid using things the subject of a biography said about themselves as a source in most cases and we never base a biography exclusively off of sources like this.
 * A rule of thumb I like is to provide the three "best" sources you have—any less doesn't give a good sense that there are multiple sources available, but too many more can be overwhelming and reduce the odds someone carefully considers them all. Sources don't need to be exclusively about you to count—in particular, textbooks or other reliable non-fiction writing that covers you (even if it's not the primary focus) would be valuable here. To have the best chance of catching an editor's attention on requested articles, I'd recommend editing the request to provide your three best sources.
 * In your specific case, it might also be helpful to provide sources demonstrating any of the specific notability criteria for academics are met if you meet them, but note that this isn't necessary if you can demonstrate that coverage exists in general. Dylnuge  (Talk • Edits) 00:49, 11 August 2023 (UTC)