Talk:Bruce S. Allen

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[edit] Notability

I am still unhappy about this article. As a minimum:

• state why the guy is notable in the first paragraph
• instead of "blind" external links buried in the middle, create an annotated "External links" section. Eg. "[1]" is horrible - it should be "AP news report of consulship appointment".
• use section headings and not just horizontal rules
• create some incoming links

-- RHaworth 07:48, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Dear Wikipedian RHaworth, Thank you for your helpful suggestions. OSM seeks through various reputable sources to make available information that is appropriate to the educational and research needs of governmental, academic, and economic functionaries such as trade commissioners, consuls, researchers, students, teachers, and industrialists. We have no financial or other conflict with the subject of this article. We have however determined that he is notable in view of his recent historic international diplomatic appointment for Liechtenstein, which is an economic and industrial leader in Europe. It appears that he also meets the criteria of notability for Wikipedia. Although our ability to regularly follow articles is limited, we shall make a good faith effort to periodically review this article in order to refine it should further information become available, but as this medium is new to us, we appreciate polite suggestions. We feel that this article provides needed educational and research information to enough various entities worldwide that it should not be deleated. thank you. -- OrbiSource Monitoring 14:36, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

You claim no financial interest. So how come out of thousands of potential subjects, you have picked this guy? Come clean, create User:OrbiSource Monitoring, your user page and tell us what your organisation really is. -- RHaworth 18:01, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Dear Sir, OSM is an approximately eighteen month old, non-remunerated, non-corporate, e-mail based collection of academicians worldwide who seek to further public information in areas of our interest. We are purely voluntary and have no set agenda other than education. This subject was picked out of other possible subjects for this submission because several of us saw a recent flurry of media activity about an historic event in an area of our interest. We chose Wikipedia for this action because the subject was of multinational interest, historic, had the potential to involve multidisciplines, and was the kind of information common and customary to print encyclopedias and other publications dealing with biographies. Further,in reviewing the information at Wikipedia,this subject seemed to easily be comparable with or to exceed the public interest of other previously accepted biographical articles; additionally, there seemed to be no prohibition against submissions by purely educationally interested authors. OrbiSource Monitoring 19:18, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

This page should be classified as B quality and as MID importance for international relations. There seems to be much going on worldwide both in the multilateral human rights arena and in the economic arena with Liechtenstein these days. UnlinedPage (talk) 21:14, 26 December 2007 (UTC)