User talk:Gregoryptm

Dear Gregoryptm:

I am wicked confused. Is this my User page? I have no idea how to create one. Someone just sent me internal mail that i could have one but I have no idea why I'd want one, except to maybe say:

1) I am currently working on two projects inside wikipedia.

a) One is an entry for

, with whom he also worked closely on several projects before McKenna died. In the past couple of days I've had some time to kill so I put together his page. If anyone has issue with whether or not he's significant enough, just go look at it, then tell me what you think.

b) My other project is one in which I have extensive knowledge and was similarly surprised that there was nothing of significance in here about him, and that would be the page of

, and others. In the course of putting together his page (which isn't finished) I have also discovered a number of other Native American entries which are either stubs or were non-existent as I began to link to them, leading me to create more.

All in all, I'm having a marvelous time participating in Wikipedia. If anyone wants to question the authenticity of what I'm entering, please let me know what your concerns are and I will be happy to address them.

Gregoryptm 19:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! Dylan 04:17, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent contribution(s) to Wikipedia are very much appreciated. However, you did not provide

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Yes, it's not original research. I should've cited it. Sorry.,

Merge of articles

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Hello Gregoryptm. May I impose upon you to review the edit war conversation at Talk:Dorothy Dunn? I see where you have made contributions to the article previously. The edit war concerns Uyvsdi's replacement of Dorothy Dunn On Primitive Art with a link to a copyvio of the same article which I reverted and then removed from Wiki myself because of a possible conflict of interests. I am the author of the article so if you feel that it is a conflict that's fine, but the consensus thus far seems to be that it's removal was not an improvement to the article. Thanks.Amerindianarts (talk) 03:01, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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I wanted to let you know that there's a discussion about whether Andrew C. Stone should be deleted. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew C. Stone .

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Hey, Gregory, I saw your post to the deletion discussion. First, let me say that you shouldn't worry about it! Articles get deleted all the time, so don't let it turn you off of editing; nobody will hold it against you. Think of it as a learning experience.

Now, on notability: simply selling a million units does not constitute notability for Wikipedia, no. Notability has its own definition on Wikipedia. It can mean several different things depending on the subject, but the baseline of all notability, the minimum standard, is expressed in what we call the

), but significant coverage in multiple reliable sources is always a necessary minimum standard.

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Another purpose of the notability guideline is that it establishes an objective, meaningful way to determine what does and doesn't get an article. Everyone can agree that Wikipedia should not have an article about every single person on the planet (well, most everyone, at least), but beyond that, there's too much room for argument. If we say that "Okay, a million sales of mobile apps makes you notable enough", people will say "But a million is so arbitrary! I don't like that!" Or maybe, "Hey, I got 999,950 sales, we should round up!" Or perhaps "That's too easy, it needs to be a million favorable ratings!" Or something else; the list is potentially infinite. The way notability works now is a good way to have an objectively determined criterion that is also meaningful.

Of course, it's very possible that I've missed a few reliable sources! If you can find any and add them to the article, that will go a *long* way towards a favorable outcome at the deletion discussion (it's not a foregone conclusion at all!) Again, don't let this put you off! The rules of Wikipedia are unfortunately (but necessarily) complex to learn; it takes everyone a while to master. Once you get used to it though, it's actually relatively simple. As I said, tons of people get their articles deleted from time to time; as long as you learn from it, nobody will hold it against you. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer at

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As I said on the deletion discussion, AfDs generally run for seven days, so you have plenty of time to add more sources. Don't worry about that. :) Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:09, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Gregory, I just wanted to follow up with you about the deletion discussion. After looking at the sources, I think that there might be enough to satisfy the general notability guideline, but since it seems to be a pretty borderline case to me, I'm going to leave the AfD open. However, I've changed my implicit delete vote to a weak keep vote, so as things stand, if nobody else voices an opinion, after seven days, the discussion will be closed and the article will not be deleted. The article definitely needs work, though, so I'd encourage you to keep working on it! Thanks. Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 23:50, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, Gregoryptm, I just wanted to toss you a beer for keeping extraordinary amounts of cool throughout this process. Even if the article gets deleted (and I very much doubt it will now; I think those new sources you brought did the trick), I definitely respect the work you're doing. Thanks! Writ Keeper ⚇♔ 15:58, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current

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Why couldn't people add me to Wikipedia?

Gregoryptm -

You probably don't know me from Adam. My name is Mark Pesce, and I'm the co-inventor of VRML (look it up) and a well known speaker about interactive & technology issues worldwide. I was then a participant in an event in Melbourne with Amanda Beersley of Zoe's foundation. My five books have sold around 50,000 copies worldwide over the last decades. I was on the TV weekly here in Australia.

yet, for some reason, when no fewer than some people have tried to create bio pages on me - even though I am referenced at least few times in the Wikipedia itself - they have been denied. The last time - just then - it was by Zoe.

Could you please explain why?

cheers,

Mark Pesce (talk) 07:27, 6 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]