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Speedy deletion nomination of Dr. Michael Schwartz
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December 2010
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved, instead of writing it yourself, as you did at
Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.
If you are not
] Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Dr. Michael Schwartz, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. ttonyb (talk) 04:48, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Please do not remove
Speedy deletion nomination of Michael Schwartz (physician)
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Your problems with the Dr. Schwartz article
I see you've been running into repeated problems creating an article on Schwartz, and I was hoping that I might help you understand the difficulties you're facing. You've got two barriers to creating this article, one which is likely conquerable, one which isn't.
- the conquerable problem is WP:NOTABILITY. It's easy to assume that something qualifies for its own Wikipedia page because it's great or important... but that ain't the case. What qualifies it is that it's discussed - that there are significant sources talking about the subject. So things that Schwartz has done don't qualify him for notability (though they should make the meat of the article) - it's things that are written about him that do. So if you can find interviews with him, or articles about things that he's done which significantly mention him, you can probably get by this one. But then there's...
- the conflict of interest. Basically, your association with AAPRP - a group he founded - makes it look like you have an interest in promoting the founder of the group. The policy states that you shouldn't be the one to create such an article. There are ways to propose that someone else create an article, however, which are reasonable and appropriate.
I do hope you take your energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge and continue to use them to improve Wikipedia, even if it cannot be on the article you wish to create. --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:18, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Thank you Nat!! We have included several references and articles written about Dr. Schwartz. Could you please review and tell us if these are the type of articles you are speaking of?? Once again...thanks for your help
http://www.secondsout.com/columns/thomas-hauser/medical-issues-and-the-aaprp
- The first might be a sign of notability (I'd have to understand better the nature of the website); the second and third are merely one-paragraph mentions in books of hundreds of pages, plus they are by the same author as the first, so they don't really add to the case. However, that is still moot because "we" (by which I assume you mean AAPRP or people of the AAPRP) should not be creating an article. If the AAPRP wants to have a biography of Dr. Schwartz, they should have it on their website, where they can focus it as they wish, and have it be as promotional as they wish - and it may even serve as a data source when someone chooses to do a bio for Wikipedia. But you should not be writing that bio directly. --Nat Gertler (talk) 21:54, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
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