Talk:Jeremy Meadow

message: This reads like a résumé. More importantly the only references supporting the assertions are the subject's own web site which is basically an advertisement for his production company, a page on a paid subscription site (Whatsonstage.com) which presumably has a résumé, and UK Theatre Web which simply lists the details of two touring productions which he has directed. The article's creator may also have a conflict of interest. Below, I have re-printed the requirements for establishing verifiable notability in biographies.  If these are not met in one week, the article will be proposed for deletion.
Basic criteria
As a bare minimum, all of the following criteria must be met in order for a person to be deemed notable:
# The text of an article should include enough information to explain why the person is notable. External arguments via a talk page or Afd debate page are not part of the article itself, and promises on those pages to provide information are not as valid as the existence of the information on the article page itself.
# If the subject is living, the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy must be followed.
# The person must have been the subject of published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject.
#* If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may need to be cited to establish notability. 
#* Trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability.
Once notability is established, primary sources may be used to add content.
Specific examples of sources
The person has been the subject of one of the following sources (which must be referenced in the article):
# A credible independent biography.
#*Database sources such as Notable Names Database, Internet Movie Database and Internet Adult Film Database are not considered credible since they are, like wikis, mass-edited with little oversight. Additionally, these databases have low, wide-sweeping generic standards of inclusion.
# Widespread coverage over time in the media such as the BBC, The Times or other reliable sources.
#* If reliable sources only cover the person in the context of a particular event, then a separate biography may be unwarranted.
# Demonstrable wide name recognition from reliable sources.
# In depth, independent, coverage in multiple publications showing a widely recognized contribution to the enduring historical record in the person's specific field.
Notes
*  What constitutes a "published work" is deliberately broad. 
*  Autobiography and self-promotion are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article. The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the subject itself have actually considered the subject notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works that focus upon it. 
*  Non-triviality is a measure of the depth of content of a published work, and how far removed that content is from a simple directory entry or a mention in passing that does not discuss the subject in detail.  A 200-page independent biography of a person that covers that person's life in detail is non-trivial, whereas a birth certificate or a 1-line listing on an election ballot form is not. The existence of a memorial (e.g., a named chair at a university) is not a substitute for depth of content in published work.
*  Generally, person who is "part of the enduring historical record" will have been written about, in depth, independently in multiple history books on that field, by historians.  A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists.  An actor who has been featured in magazines has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple magazine feature articles, by magazine article writers.  An actor or TV personality who has "an independent biography" has been written about, in depth, in a book, by an independent biographer.
Voceditenore 05:13, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability and Referencing are questionable