User talk:Thomanq
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Speedy deletion nomination of Iain Tyrrell Benson
[edit]A tag has been placed on Iain Tyrrell Benson requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.
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- I have declined the speedy deletion nomination for this article, but I am not convinced that it demonstrates notability, a requirement to have a Wikipedia article, which is not a matter of subjective opinion but needs to be demonstrated by showing "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." As far as I can see, only one of the four references you cite actually mentions Mr. Benson, and that is a CV on the website of an employer, which would not be considered independent. There is more detail in WP:Notability (people) and WP:Notability (academics), and good general advice in the links from the Welcome paragraph above, especially WP:Your first article. JohnCD (talk) 21:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you -- I will work on adding the required citations.
Your submission at Articles for creation
[edit] Thank you for submitting an article to Wikipedia. Your submission has been reviewed and has been put on hold pending clarification or improvements from you or other editors. Please take a look and respond if possible. You can find it at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Iain Benson. If there is no response within twenty-four hours the request may be declined; if this happens feel free to continue to work on the article. You can resubmit it (by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}}
to the top of the article) when you believe the concerns have been addressed. Thank you. —fetch·comms 23:43, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you! I've made some changes but am still uncertain whether I'm in conformity with Wiki guidelines. Specifically, I've created footnotes and deleted most of the long lists involved -- I've kept one list because I think it demonstrates the global importance of Mr. Benson's work. If there is a better way to get this across, I'd love to learn about it. Thanks! 174.92.10.234 (talk) 13:04, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Your recent edits
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Dispute resolution
[edit]I want to let you know that I have initiated a dispute resolution procedure at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Intercultural Open University Foundation. Tgeorgescu (talk) 19:26, 16 August 2011 (UTC)