David Gerard wrote:
A common call is "How do I get an article about me/my book/my achievement?"
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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.