User talk:Profsdyoung

Notability
Professor Young, welcome to Wikipedia. I've just spent the last half hour reading everything I could find on you -- quite interesting. In fact, you've probably just sold another copy of your book. :-) The descriptions I found of Hippies, Jesus Freaks, and Music sound like something I would be interested in.  There is a problem, however, with the article you wrote about yourself.  Wikipedia discourages people from writing new articles about themselves due to conflict of interest and other reasons.  Also, Wikipedia's policies and guidelines deliberately set the notability bar pretty high for inclusion in the encyclopedia.  I've searched everything I could find and even tried applying the alternate notability guideline for academics, but I'm concerned that you don't satisfy the notability guidelines for Wikipedia.  Technically, since the article doesn't assert notability according to the guidelines I've linked above, someone could mark it for speedy deletion.  What I'm going to do, instead, is add a proposed deletion template to the article for reasons of notability. If the template remains for five days then the article will be deleted. If you remove the template, please do so only after adding information to the article that would establish notability per guidelines. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me either by e-mail or on my talk page. SWAdair | Talk 08:42, 6 January 2007 (UTC)