On 28/09/06, Nick Boalch n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk wrote:
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.)
Hmm, possibly. The last real case of this was yesterday morning. The example is probably notable, but I had to somehow explain this to their publicity person.
(Suggesting an amateur PR person do something is to be approached with *great* care, because you know they'll do it 10000x really badly and everyone they know will also do it 10000x really badly.)
WP:RA might be the go. Does anyone actually look at it and create the articles? I thought it had devolved into a dump for unloved really bad ideas.
- d.