User talk:Knivesandvaux
Attacks in the article Professor Victor Grimble[edit]
Please do not make personal attacks as you did at Professor Victor Grimble. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images, especially those in violation of our biographies of living persons policy, will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. WhiplashInferno (talk) 16:30, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
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Professor Victor Grimble[edit]
Hello MrWhiplash. I have inform you that Professor Victor Grimble is a fictional character that appears in a book. Can the page be reinstated if I refer to him being a fictional character in the body test? Knivesandvaux (talk) 23:55, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
- You are quite right that the reason it was deleted so quickly was that it read like an article about a real, living person. We have a strong policy about WP:Biographies of living persons and anything that seems like an attack is deleted very smartly.
- If you wrote it again making clear up-front that it was about a fictional character ("Professor Grimble is a fictional character in... ") that would avoid that problem: but there is still a question as to whether Prof. Grimble is notable enough to have his own article. That's the general test we use for any subject: has it been the subject of "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." You would need to be able to cite independent sources discussing Prof. G himself, not just discussing the book he appears in - if they were only talking about the book, he could have a mention in that article. See WP:Notability for more detail, WP:Your first article for general advice, and WP:Writing about fiction if you are interested in that. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 20:58, 21 August 2010 (UTC)