User talk:Omassey

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Hello, world. Omassey 09:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to WP. This is a peculiar place.

• The page you have edited on Sarah Thomas has been listed by someone who didn't recognize the importance for almost immediate deletion. I have removed the deletion tag, which stops the process for the moment, but just for a very short while.

She is unquestionably a worthy subject for an article, but it must be in the WP style, which includes:

• looking like an full encyclopedia article not a sketch
• saying in the first sentence something to demonstrate notability, like "A.b. is professor of X at, winner of the XYZ prize and 10 honorary doctorates" (whatever applies). Use the exact wording I recommend, including either the word "notable" or "internationally-known" or "nationally-known"; do not use "famous" -- May sound silly, but that is what many people look for here. --I did this for you just now.

*listing college degrees and previous positions with university and year -- and putting the university names in  double brackets

• listing important awards
• listing important memberships and offices held
• listing any publications, say how many total. State the importance the journals are.

and, most important, giving some 3rd party sources. A website at a university etc. can be one, but it cannot be the only one. Book reviews are fine, or a newspaper stories. Print or web is OK, but not from a list or a blog. There should certainly have been some news accounts of her appointment. These is, very unfortunately, some prejudice against people from the academic world. And there is, as would only be expected, the usual extraordinary prejudice against librarians being important. Even Bodley's.

If the article does get deleted before it can be fixed, just re-create it, but take your time--maybe in a week after careful preparation; do it outside WP, or on a subpage of your user page--call it User:Omassey/sandbox.

I will keep track of the article and help as needed. I have, alas, a great deal of experience getting articles about prominent academics into the style they want around here. And I'm a librarian myself, of no particular distinction. Ask me any questions on the article talk page. or my user talk page. DGG 06:37, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. Omassey 18:45, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

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