User talk:Rowlandw

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Again, welcome!  Blarneytherinosaur talk 01:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] William McIntrye

I have replied to your query on my talk page. Blarneytherinosaur talk 02:22, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notability of William Reid McEwen

A tag has been placed on William Reid McEwen requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article appears to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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McEwen,

Sorry Nyttend that you deleted McEwen. He was one of the best known and significant anti-modernists in this country and his editing of Evangelical Action for so long should have told you that. I'm not sufficiently up with wikipedia to know how to go further, but I should have thought he should be reinstated. I could add a bit more if needed.

Rowland S. Ward Rowlandw 21:18, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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Rev Ward,
Please read the Wikipedia standards for notability. You may have seen what I wrote: "Apparently a good and godly man, but being a minister doesn't make you notable at all". However, what information you provided doesn't attempt to show that he fulfills the notability standards: simply being a denominational magazine editor doesn't make you notable. You have to be the subject of study by multiple reliable independent sources, and the obituary and picture in the other magazine doesn't count for such a source. If you want to have an article on him, create it, but only if you can prove that he's notable according to our standards. Nyttend 21:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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I guess one assumed readers knew Evangelical Action was and is not a denominational magazine but a major anti-modernist paper linking conservatives over many denominations.

Rowland S. Ward rowlandw