User talk:PaulB1979

Westfield, Massachusetts

Thanks for your contributions to the article. However, the section you are editing is for "Notable residents" of Westfield. While "residents" should be self-explanatory, "notable" requires some explanation. On Wikipedia, we generally limit such lists to individuals who have articles about them as this demonstrates that the individual is notable. If you feel Richard Falley Jr. is notable, please start an article on him, then add him to the list. Thanks. - SummerPhD (talk) 18:30, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Wouldn't having a street in the city named for a person make them notable (Falley Dr.)? Or maybe having a tablet provided by the Westfield Bicentennial Committee. (http://www.falley.org/) Please take the time to do the research other than a quick google. Perhaps check out the library where they have old grinding wheels and tools from the armory he ran off of Reservoir Rd. - — Preceding unsigned comment added by PaulB1979 (talk • contribs) 19:26, 27 April 2011

(It is generally not necessary to post to both your talk page and that of the person who started the conversation. I will respond here with a note on my talk page referring to this page.) Anyone can edit Wikipedia. As a result, we experience a great deal of vandalism, with people adding their girlfriends, gym teachers, great uncles, etc. to lists of "notable" people. To limit this, we need some standard of notability and verification of that notability. In general, when you edit Wikipedia it is a good idea to include a citation to a reliable source that supports the material you are adding. In this case, you would need to provides cites showing that Falley is A) notable and B) was a resident of Westfield. To demonstrate notability in Wikipedia's terms you would need to provide citations showing "substantial coverage in independent reliable sources". Having provided those sources would be enough to create an article about Falley. As a result, rather than looking for the sources on the Westfield page, most editors would expect that the sources be used to create an article on Falley, then add him to the list. If you would prefer, you are certainly free to add him to the list with the citations there. (If you do that, and the sources are sufficient, I'll probably actually create the article myself.) Thanks. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:54, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

May 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Westfield, Massachusetts, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. As discussed, we need an indication that he is notable. SummerPhD (talk) 22:44, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

No(edit) take a walk down town and learn. Or maybe you can look on google street view on the corner of holland ave and court street where you will see a marker in this mans name. (edit). This is not someones girl friend or gym teacher as you had suggested earlier. This is an American hero that lived in town (edit)

As this is your talk page, I'll give you a little bit of slack. In general, however, personal attacks are strongly discouraged.

I can't read your mind, of course, but there seems to be a gap between your definition of "notable" and what Wikipedia means by "WP:NOTABLE". As this is about the content of the article, I'm taking the discussion there. - SummerPhD (talk) 03:20, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

I edited this because I was wrong in a personal attack and discrediting the other notable people in the list.

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Westfield, Massachusetts. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. - SummerPhD (talk) 14:54, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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In general, a person or organization added to a list, as on Westfield, Massachusetts, should have a pre-existing article to establish notability. If you wish to create such an article, please confirm that your subject is notable according to Wikipedia's notability policy. Thank you. - SummerPhD (talk) 12:09, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

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