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

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

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?)

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