User talk:Richard3444

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Happy editing! TJMSmith (talk) 11:49, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

This Jacobs guy
Is he a huge self-promoter? That wouldn't surprise me. That can successfully get one on Wikipedia, just as it can get attention in the real world, even if every academic is groaning about their "insights". All that being said, hope you are able to leverage your own expertise to help improve this improbably vast Wikipedia project. Cheers.--Milowent • hasspoken 21:10, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Michael Jacobs (economist)
Hello, Richard3444,

You did bite off more than you could chew with this AFD nomination as it appeared to be your first edit with this registered account. I think I had been editing for quite a while before I ventured into tagging pages for deletion or deletion discussions. It's complicated because Wikipedia has a variety of different standards for notability depending on occupation and other factors. Often editors focus in on one field like films or books or atheletes where they are most familiar with sources of reliable information and notability guidelines. Academics are particularly tricky because the editors who work with these articles track down how frequently their work has been cited and where it's been cited. I've seen one sentence articles about professors get Kept because even though there wasn't even a good paragraph of information in the article, an editor doing the research discovered they were extremely notable in their field. Editors who frequent AFDs learn to look for existing sources and not judge notability of a subject on the state of the article at the time of nomination.

But you aren't a real editor until a page you have tagged for deletion has been kept despite ones strong sense that the article didn't meet Wikipedia's standards. This happened with me with an article about a model who was the pen pal of a famous author and I was positive that this relationship didn't make her notable but the consensus was against me. Oh, well, you live and learn! Although I still consider nominating that article again to see if consensus has changed over the years.

If you ever have questions about notability criteria, editing or Wikipedia or its deletion processes, the Teahouse is a great place to go to get information and advice. Good luck! Liz Read! Talk! 21:31, 9 October 2022 (UTC)