Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Keith Johnson (author)

Hello to all of you who have worked-on or reviewed the entry for “Keith Johnson (author)”.

I, like many people, am sad and disappointed to find that the “Keith Johnson (author)” page was recently deleted, and hope that it can be reinstated.

To explain why, I would start by saying that I think there may have been a number of misconceptions or assumptions made by the people who deleted it, including these important ones:

1)	The article was not written by Keith Johnson himself. It was written by several other people, of which I am one.

2)	The website www.timetabler.com referred to in the article is not Keith Johnson’s personal website – it is the website of a company of which he is not a director nor a shareholder nor an employee.

3)	The work Keith Johnson did on school textbooks, and on the teaching of Physics in the United Kingdom especially, but also around the world … was revolutionary, and changed the way science textbooks have been written ever since. Many of the articles referred to in the Wikipedia entry, demonstrate this.

4)	Any author who has been read by several million children across the globe must surely be ‘notable’ by definition, and worthy of recognition on Wikipedia ?

What I can understand, however, is that the Wikipedia entry was not kept up-to-date, and several of its references have since stopped to function – for example, some that were on Friends Reunited. That is my fault (amongst others), as I should have checked the entry regularly in case this happened.

Therefore … what I would like to do now, if you agree, is:

1)	create a more focused page

2)	remove any links that no longer work

3)	find and add new external links (to established sources, for example: Amazon’s “Author Central”)

4)	emphasise the novel aspects of Keith’s contributions to education and the teaching of Physics around the world.

Would that be acceptable ? If so, what is the best way for me to start doing this ?

Thank you for your time and consideration … if you have any questions, please let me know.