David Gerard wrote:
My phone number and email are publicly available for media contact purposes. This means, of course, I get emails and calls about *everything*.
A common call is "How do I get an article about me/my book/my achievement?"
Now. What's a helpful answer to this? Better than "You don't, someone else has to write one," because you *know* they'll just write a really bad one themselves and it'll all end in a tearful AFD entry and someone hating or fearing Wikipedia henceforth.
Assume that referring them to a web page or policy page is less good than being able to answer on the phone right there.
Ideas please?
Tell them to chuck it on [[WP:AFC]].
(Gosh darnit, someone has got to write a wikilink parser for Thunderbird... does the next version of mIRC support subst: templates with variables yet?)