Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William J. Coldwell

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. GlassCobra 22:40, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] William J. Coldwell

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Unsourced BLP page of NN developer that appears to have been authored and edited extensively by its own subject, inventor of an extensive suite of redlinked technologies, with article-lede notability assertions that include "worked with Matt Dillion at BEST". Probably a real nice guy, but what is he doing in the WP writing pages about himself? --- tqbf 03:52, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Note: disputed prod. I apologize in advance if I'm wrong and User:Cryonator isn't the "Cryo" mentioned in the article. --- tqbf 03:53, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: Does not appear to be notable. Also, no reliable sources to verify notability. - Rjd0060 (talk) 04:48, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, I agree with nominator, unless someone's able to establish notability really fast. --Raistlin (talk) 12:26, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete: What part of unfinished was misunderstood? Either way, it's irrelevant because my "notability" is not riding on the shirt tail of others, but simply explaining details about the startup that Matt and I did. Even more interesting is that I was using the template of other semi-biographical pages as a template. Clearly, though since I'm not appearing in the pages of slashdot or whatever the latest cool thing, I retract the whole thing. I apologize for using wikipedia as a basis for knowledge rather than misinformed. I do appreciate the spanking and rather than helping me improve the article, resorting to simply wanting to delete it. -- William J. Coldwell. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cryo@os10.org (talk • contribs) 01:56, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry you feel that way. Generally, articles written by their own subjects are discouraged on Wikipedia. See WP:AUTO for details. Furthermore, articles that cannot draw on reliable secondary sources cannot be improved on WP; they are unverifiable. Verifiability and notability are key principles of Wikipedia. Perhaps you should instead write about some of the myriad of interesting technologies you've contributed to over the years, and leave it to someone else to write the article about you. --- tqbf 02:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

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