User talk:Raccoonie

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Proposed deletion of Thomas S. Popkewitz


The article Thomas S. Popkewitz has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners or ask at Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 13:23, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Thomas S. Popkewitz


The article Thomas S. Popkewitz has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Referencing for beginners or ask at Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the prod blp tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can when you are ready to add one. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 23:22, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Status and Advice
As reviewing administrator, I  removed the deletion tag-- he is very clearly notable. But the article is too much like a cv, and may conceivably have been copied from one. This is not appropriate for an encyclopedia/ Even if you own the copyright, you must explicitly license the rights to the material according to our licensing, using the CC-BY-SA and the GNU  licenses, as explained in WP:COPYRIGHT and WP:Donating copyrighted materials. But I do not advise you to do this, but rather rewrite--such material is rarely suitable here. I removed book chapters and lectures, which are not encyclopedic material. Given that you have written many books, perhaps only the most important journal articles should be included also --probably the top 5 most cited. We also need references to published reviews of at least some of the books. I advise you to fix the problem, and do this very quickly, before the article gets nominated for deletion by a regular deletion process.  DGG ( talk ) 20:18, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Deleting Popkewitz files
I saw your edit summary on Thomas S. Popkewitz. You can delete the photos on Commons by following their deletion process, if it's eligible. Let me know if you need a hand. czar ♔  23:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

Maintenance tags
I've reinstated the maintenance tags on Thomas S. Popkewitz because the issues remain. I understand that you feel that you have addressed the issues, but per BRD, I disagree and thus the discussion moves to the talk page. If you look in the page history, you'll see that I already mentioned that I was taking the discussion there, where I took the time to enumerate the issues that remain with the article. czar ♔  17:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)