Talk:Haynes

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[edit] Sports players

Why is some sports star more deserving of being including in this list than others with the name Haynes? What great real life accomplishments have these sports figures achieved?72.192.8.77 00:20, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

It's the elitist wikipedia editors who keep it clean from spam. Maybe if you didn't spam with your website addresses it wouldn't have been edited out? Or maybe they don't want to list every person with the same last name.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.172.84 (talk) 01:41, 27 March 2007

The page only links to those people (and places) named Haynes who already have a Wikipedia page. It isn't meant to be a list of everyone with the name Haynes, which would run into the millions. If you want to argue whether or not the sports players on here are notable enough to warrant Wikipedia pages (a perfectly valid thing to wonder about), do that on their articles' talk pages, not this one. Furthermore, they're probably still more notable than the entry you added - there are millions of freelance photographers and creators of websites out there; why is that person in particular notable? smigs 12:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

The website addresses were not intended as spam. They were not links, but were simply describing the person. I do not think there are a tremendously large number of people out there that own top level domains with the name Haynes; certainly not millions, and probably not even hundreds. Also, as I am sure you are aware many of the pages within this list point to pages that contains only a sentence to a paragraph. If one were to go to the website, which again was written only as a description; not as a link; they would find much more than a sentence that gave them a sense of who the person is. Since, the person’s work is currently done entirely online, and the name of the person’s industry is the website name it was listed in order to describe what the person does; not as spam. Again, the intent was not to spam, but to describe. Although, if you insist that it must link to a wikipedia page I suppose that is reasonable. I will leave at that for now; until the name is more acceptably “notable". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.192.8.77 (talk) 13:34, 27 March 2007