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Rich Apuzzo is a local celebrity in the Greater Cincinnati tri-state area. He appears in many community functions and has a large fan base. He belongs to many notable organizations, and has received many awards. Angelika 23 22:47, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Rich is a great Meteoroligist! He educates all of the weather geeks that he knows. He also produces a very unique way of getting your weather forecast! He does a weather cast online called, "The Weather Rush." He produces it out of his home in his own studio! You can watch it M-F at 7pm via his website.

http://skyeyeweather.com

Tron777 23:38, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

So, I have to ask, if this qualifies for deletion, why would somebody like "Gary England" be allowed to be on here?

Rich is the only meteorologist I know of in this area that actually cares about his viewers. "The Weather Rush" is a one of a kind program, and Rich brings a twist to local weather like no other!

Your reasons for deletion are unjustified and I'd suggest you people back off on deleting the page. Thank you

Hdayejr 00:11, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

After review of Rich Apuzzo's wikipedia listing, I have to agree that his history is well worth the attention of the general public. I have personally been affected by Mr. Apuzzo over the years as I have grown up watching him on WXIX(cincinnati) since 1993. I feel like I've known the man for 14 years now. Having personally met Mr. Apuzzo on a few occasions one of many things I've noticed is how he can light up a room with the public and weather enthusiasts. Mr. Apuzzo has forecasted some of the most memorable weather events in the history of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky as well as other areas he has worked prior to 1993. His forecasts have served and protected hundreds of thousands of people over the years from Severe weather events. His knowledge and capability to educate the general public on his passion as well as his career well exceeds the expectations in atmospheric sciences and other related fields. My family and friends as well as thousands of others in the midwest have trusted Mr. Apuzzo with his forecasts and his personal touch of bringing the weather to the public.

Richwx06 23:32, 28 July 2007 (UTC) Rich G Fairfield, Ohio

[edit] Needs cleanup

I removed several sections as not needed. This article was organised like a CV. That is not the best way of writing an encylopedia article. I've no objection to some of the info going back in, but not in the form of a list. HTH Theresa Knott | The otter sank 01:09, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

So I can't use his awards he's won? Isn't that pertinent information? Thank you - Angelika 23 01:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

You need to write about the things he has done. This sounds like a resume, still. It's essentially a list of awards and accomplishments and reads like an American Christmas newsletter, he

• • received a bachelor's degree
  • his tenure in
  • was married.
  • moved to Austin, Texas and Rich
  • career path took a brief turn to weather consulting
  • a strong desire to return to broadcasting,
  • moved to a FOX start-up (WWCP) in
  • hired as the first Chief Meteorologist
  • where he was the Chief Meteorologist for 13 years.
  • first meteorologist to use a seven day forecast

Of course, ignoring that he was let go, rather than that he left, not tied into news reports, it's a chain of resume blips that could be written as bullets.

The text needs to be in Standard English, written like an article, with depth and flavor, the ups and downs of his life. OrangeMike is not steering you wrong by directing you to WP:BIO because you just need so much to improve this article and make it credible. It's one thing to indicate a word change here and there, but it's not fair to demand that people tell you how to rewrite the whole darn thing from scratch, which is really what needs to be done. The sentences are disjointed, they have no depth, they contain literally nothing outside of the bullet of bam! he did this! then that! then this happened!

Please, read WP:BIO, and WP:MOS, and read some of the biographies that appear on the front page, and see what an encyclopedia article should look like. If you could add bullets and pop it in the mail as a resume, it's not an encyclopedia article. Please look at other Wikipedia articles that are well-written, and rewrite this using complete sentences with depth, with references, not bullet points.

KP Botany 06:19, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Here are some examples, noting that your sentences are not connected to each other, and I'm guessing at details that are missing, like I don't know what his tenure at Cincinnati is, this may be because this information was removed from this due to the resume like disjoint nature of the article before, but this is an example of a style of writing suitable to an article of this nature, whereas bullet points are not:

Apuzzo studied geology and meteorology at university, receiving his bachelor's degree in both from Valparaiso University in Indiana in 1984. After graduating, Apuzzo worked briefly as a weatherman at various small stations in Indiana. During this time, he met and married Ruthie Anne Smith, a business woman in Blank, Indiana, where he was working at WWWW-TV. Apuzzo worked briefly at a FOX-TV start-up, WWCP in Johnston, Pennsylvania, then joined new Cincinnati Fox affiliate, WXIX-TV, in 1991 as their first Chief Meteorologist. He worked at FOX for 13 years before being let go and replaced by John Jones, weatherman for another station.[1] In 1993, Rich was the first meteorologist to use a seven day forecast in the Cincinnati Tri-State area, where three day forecasts were the usual.

Ruthie Apuzzo started Skyeye Weather LLC and www.skyeyeweather.com in 2003 to devote a local web page to weather education, consulting and career development.

These other editors have been working on Wikipedia for a long time to get the skills necessary to start new articles. Please, read WP:BIO and learn how to write biographies, just as most of us have had to, it will tell you what is pertinent information, and how to write it up to make it an article, not a resume. Thanks. KP Botany 06:19, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

KP, I appreciate you taking the time to explain things. It is very irritating to me that you insist I am asking people to write it for me. I am not. I was asking what was so offensive. I have not once asked anyone to actually go in and make changes for me. I asked Orange Mike the reasons for his repeated tagging, and I asked Theresa Knott to give it a look. Please do not make the claim that I am "demanding people help me rewrite the darned thing..." Again, thank you for your advice, I appreciate it and certainly appreciate the fact that you were so nice about it. - Angelika 23 13:15, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry that you feel I was not nice about this, Angelika; as I've said elsewhere, we experienced editors tend to get more than a little cynical about what appear to be fluff pieces (there are actually professional public relations people who do this to Wikipedia and feel no shame about it). Don't feel bad about other people working on the article, incidentally; nobody owns an article or a topic. You know the subject better than I; but we can all pitch in together to make this a more encyclopedic article. --Orange Mike 01:54, 13 August 2007 (UTC)