Jay Busbee edit
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I've listed this article for peer review because i've never created a Wikipedia page before and would like to know for sure if the page lives up to Wikipedia's quality standards. I know already that the subject more than meets notability requirements. If I have made anything about the page improperly I would like to know in advance of any possible deletion. Thank you in advance for your time and patience.
Thanks, TimidObserver (talk) 04:03, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: Sounds like an interesting guy, here are some suggestions for improvement and to make sure it is kept and not deleted.
- See WP:NN for more on the notability criteria for people. It notes that If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Let's look at these one at a time.
- The problem is that none of the sources currently used in the article meet these criteria. I note that ref 1 (his wife's law firm profile) makes NO mention of Jay Busbee (that I could see). All of the rest of the sources are primary sources (Busbee's own college web page, his various articles, his book website). One ref does not mention him and the rest are not independent of the subject.
- What this needs are articles from newspapers or magazines or books or other reliable sources that talk about him. My guess is that these may exist. They do not have to be on the web (they can be print only).
- The refs should be in standard format - {{cite web}} may be helpful here
- There should be no external links to websites in the article - convert these to references.
- The image is not free of copyright - if Busbee took it of himself, he owns the copyright. Now if he has sent it to you to upload here, it can presumably be released under a free license. See Wikipedia:OTRS for how to submit the photo and email for use here.
- This is so short that it is hard to say much else about it. The writing is decent, which is good.
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). I do not watch peer reviews, so if you have questions or comments, please contact me on my talk page. Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:23, 23 September 2009 (UTC)