User talk:Olef

Your recent edits at Helix HS
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I am writing to both welcome you and explain why the edits referenced above were reverted. There is a standard, if you will, as to who can be added to "notable alumni" lists. That is so neither your nor my opinion of someone's importance matters. The threshhold is the person must either have or would qualify to have a biography on Wikipedia. Neither person you added had a bio. Therefore you would have to show enough references to prove they would qualify and also references that show their connection to the school. The bass player probably won't be notable as it is policy that musicians have to have notability independent of groups they may have been in. No opinion on the cartoonist. A good place for new editors to go for help is the teahouse, a Q&A forum just for new editors. Happy editing. John from Idegon (talk) 06:09, 12 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Getting better, but I still had to revert again. You are real close on the bass player, but there is nothing in his Wikipedia article to connect him to the school. His connection to the school needs to be referenced. As for the catoonist, you have shown him to be notable but not that he attended the school. Also the name you have linked with a first name of Ed links to an article about someone else. That brings us to the journalist. The article you linked is to a deceased radiologist. I searched his name on Wikipedia and not suprisingly found several matches but none are journalists. If he was awarded a Pulitzer in his name (not the papers), he is notable. But you will still have reference both the prize and his connection to the school. John from Idegon (talk) 08:00, 15 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Getting better, but I still had to revert again. You are real close on the bass player, but there is nothing in his Wikipedia article to connect him to the school. His connection to the school needs to be referenced. As for the catoonist, you have shown him to be notable but not that he attended the school. Also the name you have linked with a first name of Ed links to an article about someone else. That brings us to the journalist. The article you linked is to a deceased radiologist. I searched his name on Wikipedia and not suprisingly found several matches but none are journalists. If he was awarded a Pulitzer in his name (not the papers), he is notable. But you will still have reference both the prize and his connection to the school. John from Idegon (talk) 08:06, 15 December 2014 (UTC)