Wikipedia talk:Who is a low-profile individual

Major rewrite
I've substantially rewritten this, since it's actually being cited, but needed some work. The principal issue was that it did not adequately distinguish between hucksters, power-grabbers, celebs and egotists on the one hand, versus on the other hand various classes of people such as people who have to answer journalists' questions as part of their job, local activists, non-grandstanding experts, authors, etc., and a number of others. This was particularly close to home for me, because I would have been classified as "high-profile" under the version of this essay that I encountered, when I am in fact very low-profile and have been for around 8 years (I've only done two major interviews in that time, and both as the spokesthing for an employer, not as "special me, the expert"). I don't particularly want people writing an article about me (one could be written and reliably & independently sourced with relative ease, even if it would not be particularly long), especially not on the basis that I'm allegedly "high-profile".

Anyway, I realize that an edit this major is a WP:BOLD move, so I'm not going to be terribly alarmed if a lot of what I put in and changed is re-changed. I would hope against a blanket WP:BRD revert, however. Such moves are rarely constructive in my experience, because they resist change, period, rather than objecting to particular items of change. —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93; ‹(-¿-)› 09:12, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * As the originator of this particular essay, I think what you've done has been quite positive. Jclemens (talk) 18:07, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Public figure?
Question.

A certain equestrian is a former Olympian. Competed in two separate Olympic events.

He is also a former United States Equestrian Federation Equestrian of the Year.

In your view, does he qualify as a public figure. Inasmuch as he has held "a position of pre-eminence" in a sport, "at more than a locally-significant level"? --2603:7000:2143:8500:A45B:E4AA:91E9:A3F9 (talk) 07:20, 4 February 2022 (UTC)