User talk:Paulseymou

Help me!
Please help me with...on the list of Silver Star Medal recipients, my name is missing. I was awarded the Silver Star TWICE in Vietnam and I have official documentation that I can provide. However, I am not very good with the computer and don't know how to get my name added or who to contact to help me do so. I'd be grateful if someone would contact me at paulseymou@gmail.com with assistance. Thank you.

Col. Paul A. Seymour, USAF (Ret)

Paulseymou (talk) 01:32, 20 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. No need to send in any documentation, a quick google search shows me what awards you have recieved. They are quite impressive. However, given that over 100 000 people have recieved the Silver Star Medal, not all can be included in the list. In cases like these, we try to limit inclusion to the most prominent. The criterion we use is refered to here as notability. It is also the criterion for being able to write an article about the person. For military personel, the criterion is wp:soldier. I don't have much knowledge of military matters or access to print newspapers for that period so I have no way of verifying if you meet the criteria. If you do, you can't write the article about yourself, but let me know and I will see what I can do. Thank you! Happy Squirrel (talk) 02:01, 20 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks Happysquirl. I'm sure I don't qualify as "notable" so I'll just let the Silver Star list stand as it is. I just thought that being awarded it twice would justify adding my name to the list. However, at my age now it isn't really all that important. I appreciate you taking tom to reply. Merry Christmas

Col Seymour Paulseymou 01:43, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello. I moved your reply down so we can see the conversation in order. Thank you for being so understanding of our inclusion guidelines. It can be a wrench to enforce them, but the other alternative is having more articles than we can maintain. That can lead to all kinds of nastiness festering in unwatched articles. Merry Christmas and don't hesitate to ask any other questions. Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:55, 21 December 2015 (UTC)