User talk:ThoFlam

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 * Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Rushton2010 (talk) 23:44, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes I'd be happy to help. I apologize in advance, people put a lot of work into their articles and it's disappointing to have it declined, but we are bound by the strict rules and criteria that wikipedia sets for its articles. And so I hope not to sound as if I'm having a go, I'm simply letting you know what criteria it must meet.

The article was rejected as the individual does not meet wikipedia's notability criteria for holding a wikipedia page. To be notable is not necessarily to be famous or popular; just, simply, deserving of record. Wikipedia's policy on notability requires that the individual has Significant Coverage from multiple Independent, reliable and verifiable sources- their 'notability' also must not be 'temporary'; simply being mentioned or listed somewhere is not enough. Plainly, if they have not received significant, in depth coverage from other sources, they are not notable enough for a wikipedia page.

In addition to this basic criteria, individuals who do not come under certain exceptions (entertainers, sports personalities etc. are the exception) must also meet additional criteria:
 * The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for one several times.
 * The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field.

The subject of the article fails to meet criteria numerous times. Just to be in charge or creator of a (or several) companies is not to be notable. There are no sources of significant coverage; there is no widely recognized contribution to history and no well-known and significant awards. Notability cannot be gleaned from other places either; just because you are in charge or connected to a notable company, does not make you notable; and just because you've done something that a notable individual like Barrack Obama has done, does not make you, yourself notable. Any small claim to notability the individual has is not the long term notability wikipedia requires -think: if this individual retired or died, would they be leaving a lasting influence on their chosen field? Would they be remembered and well known in 5 years? 25 years? -The answer looks to be no.

The article also reads like a CV or an advertisement for the individual, which is another criteria for rejection. The phrase that is always drummed into the editors and reviewers is that 'Wikipedia is not linked-in'. We get a lot of applications for pages for Businesses and Businessmen/women (many of whom want to use it as an advertising tool due to wikipedia's popularity and high position in google searches) and the overwhelming majority are rejected because they do not meet wikipedia's criteria. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a CV and advertising tool. Unless they've made a huge impact that is going to be renowned and known throughout history (think Microsoft, Enron etc.) they do not get a wikipedia page. Even businesses and businessmen/women that are currently 'big' or currently popular and currently successful, are very, very rarely notable in the long term and thus do not meet wikipedia's criteria.

And so, unless there is something 'big' you've forgotten to mention about the individual, the article is not going to be accepted (unless, obviously, the individual does something that makes her meet wikipedia's notability criteria).

Apologies again; we are all bound by wikipedia's rules and criteria and we cannot get around them. Rushton2010 (talk) 10:52, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Inge Geerdens concern
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Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Inge Geerdens concern
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Thank you for your attention. HasteurBot (talk) 01:35, 30 July 2015 (UTC)