Talk:Milo Poulson

Question

WGolf entered category of Living Person. WGolf, do you know any more about this person? Thanks!

Notability tag

Gybowman, are you still working on this? Can you establish that he meets WP:NARTIST or WP:GNG? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 06:09, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Boleyn: Honestly, I'm out of my depth here. I thought it would be interesting to add the table of contents, listing the authors and titles, from the Gay Comix series to its article. Someone deleted that, saying it was "undue weight". But before they did, someone sitting next to me at the wiki-a-thon suggested I make links for each of the artists, only a few of whom already had wikipedia pages. I was sort of worried that someone might later come along and document a DIFFERENT Milo Poulson with that stub, and have it automatically and erroneously linked to this comic book. So, I added a little information in the stub record for each of those artists, linking back to the Gay Comix article with the table of contents. Most have been deleted.

So, no, I suppose Milo Poulson doesn't meet the WP:NARTIST requirements, based on what is documented on the Internet today. When I put it there I hoped someone would come along and add more information to the article. Apparently that doesn't fly.

I am puzzled though. I read a book about Wikipedia and it mentions that anybody can create a stub and have the world fill it out. This was described as a triumph of collective knowledge in the book. I believe the example is "asphalt". The initial article said, "Asphalt is a material used for road coverings," and from there it has been expanded significantly by other people. It seems like that wouldn't pass muster today. What do you think?

Thanks for any insight. Gybowman (talk) 14:29, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

@Gybowman: While anyone can edit Wikipedia at any time, or create an article of any length at any time, we have notability guidelines and policies regarding living people. The length of an article at any time is not relevant to notability, only the existence of significant coverage in reliable sources. There is plenty of literature devoted to asphalt. If this article is to ever expand, we require secondary sources, and there is no requirement that sources be freely available on line- books and (reputable) magazines can also be used, provided they are theoretically accessible. There may not be any reliable "collective knowledge" on a person, even if their name is known to certain people. Not all artists or writers will be notable, but if articles are deleted, they can certainly be re-written when sufficient sources are found to establish notability. --Animalparty-- (talk) 20:41, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Note, you might try searching for books like No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics. --Animalparty-- (talk) 20:59, 11 June 2015 (UTC)