Talk:Bruce Jones (surfboards)

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[edit] Note from the creator of this page

This article is about one of the pioneers of the surfboard shaping industry. While my name is the same, this company and this person are of no relation to me and I have never met them and am not working for them.

It is my thought that all of these early founders of the surfboard industry, need short bio pages and that this one is only a start. Dick Brewer already has an entry.

For example Hobart "Hobie" Alter the founder of Hobie, and the Hobie Cat does not have an entry.

It is my contention that this is a neglected Sports Industry and that there are many "unknown" pioneers that should be captured in Wikipedia, to make it a more complete encyclopedia.

--- BMcCJ 02:58, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

You may well be right — presuming this is indeed a pioneer, it should be possible to find a reliable, independent source that talks about him.

The problem is simply that, to have an entry on Wikipedia, someone needs to be notable, and the article needs to state why they are. Add a source for his notability, and you're all set! — Coren ^(talk) 03:03, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

I think you misunderstood the concept of claims to notability! You want to add references to support the claims, not just state the claim itself between <ref> tags.  :-) — Coren ^(talk) 03:20, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

There you go; I've fixed the <ref> tags a bit so they all refer to each other instead of repeat themselves, but that's a good start for this article!

Happy editing! — Coren ^(talk) 03:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Totally Updated Article

OK, its a more complete and referenced article. With what I could find for now. Perhaps other wikipedians can find/add more and perhaps its got enough to stay now... --- BMcCJ 04:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)