Talk:Will Wilkinson

message: I'm the subject of this entry. A lot of this is out-dated now. I'd change it myself, but I understand that's frowned upon. So, is there a process by which I can suggest revisions to the entry that others can review and make if suitable? Thanks.
-- I updated some facts about this, including added that you are now an MFA student at Univ of Houston. Haven't followed your work enough to know all your current affiliations.
--Considering I just made a change to the entry concerning your Canadian-American-ness, I'd be happy to hear what you actually prefer/profess and whatever else you want updated. Kimcmich (talk) 05:03, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: This article suggests Wilkinson and Brink Lindsey were fired from the Cato Institute for ideological noncompliance: http://www.frumforum.com/the-purge-at-cato Lippard (talk) 19:56, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Departure from Cato Institute

message: Reading the proposed delete tag again, I saw that I could prevent deletion just by deleting it, so I did that, since I think my additions improved the case for notability enough to make it clear. I think the entry is now a somewhat worse, hwowever, since a lot of the added information you would include not so much for the sake of a reader looking for information, but for an editor proposing to delete it. But I guess that's how this works.
--Slangshot (talk) 06:52, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, actually it does. It definitely does have the room. --J.Dayton (talk) 21:16, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: *The Self-Destruction of Paul Ryan and the G.O.P. — 13 April 2018
Paul Ryan and the fate of the G.O.P. is an A-level topic in the current news cycle (as hard as it is to crowd yourself onto the standing-room-only double-decker bus lately). 
This level of editorial invite into the national limelight is not a dime a dozen. 
It has always frustrated me about Wikipedia's notability guidelines run counter to the age-old wisdom: show, don't tell. 
The concept is often attributed to Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, reputed to have said "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
That's a paraphrase of what we have from Chekhov directly, but it stands the test of time.  
Here we have the glint of light on broken glass. And out there, for some reason, the world is too busy admiring the broken glass for anyone important to bother tweeting (at minor article length) "nice, bright moon tonight" (to serve what other point, exactly?) so that we can legitimately note the impressive illumination event here. 
But there it is, Wikipedia's notability guidelines have a weird, otherworldly, tell-centric fixation, and thus debate ever rages between literate pragmatists and Chekov-schmekov literalists. 
This does nothing to alleviate the sword of Damocles that some scissor-wielding literalist decides to snip the slender thread (entirely within his or her letter-of-the-law legal rights, I might add), but it does to my mind entirely put to pasture the hoary "no room at the inn" speed-merchant blow off. — MaxEnt 18:40, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wilkinson with fresh A-level opinion piece in the NYT