[WikiEN-l] How to deal with direct requests for articles?

[Nick Boalch]

David Gerard wrote:

> A common call is "How do I get an article about me/my book/my achievement?"
[...]
> Ideas please?

Explain why we discourage autobiography (i.e. explain it as part of high 
encyclopaedic standards) and point them to [[WP:RA]]?

(I know you didn't want to simply quote a webpage at them, but if you 
can encourage them to go to [[WP:RA]] and add a simple explanation of 
why their achievement/book/whatever is encyclopaedic and verifiable 
enough for us to be interested in it, that gets them off your back and 
into contributing.)

Cheers,

N.

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