Talk:Vicky Colbert

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Removing 'press release' tag[edit]

I was the original author of this entry, which was tagged "This article reads like a press release or a news article or is entirely based on routine coverage. Please expand this article with properly sourced content to meet Wikipedia's quality standards, event notability guideline, or encyclopedic content policy."

I've made a couple of changes to address this: removing "prestigious" from before the name of a prize; and dropping the final quotation from the subject, which I agree might be more appropriate in a magazine story than an encyclopedia.

The coverage used does not seem to me to fall into the definition of 'routine'. It includes a fairly lengthy N.Y. Times article, and a report by National Public Radio which involved a visit to a school in Colombia. Regarding notability, Colbert was listed in: Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Colombia

She has not been widely covered in English-language media, but she has had notable coverage, and has indisputably done notable work over a period of 40 years. I trust we all agree that Wikipedia should not show a special preference only for self-promoters.

As far as I can tell, it's not considered a conflict of interest for me to remove the 'press release' tag if I feel the issues have been addressed, and I believe they have. If someone does not agree, I hope you will give more specifics here. And I hope others will add to the entry. (For the record, I do not know Vicky Colbert and have nothing to gain from this. I admire what I know of her work, and was surprised not to find an entry for her. As was someone at the Montessori Observer who wrote 2 years ago: "Founded in 1975 by Vicky Colbert (who, like Escuela Nueva itself, desperately needs a Wikipedia page), Escuela Nueva..."

Big Uncle Mouse (talk) 11:29, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]