Wikipedia doesn't want you
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> Do not create pages about yourself, your company, your band, or your friends; pages that advertise; personal essays; or other articles you would not find in an encyclopedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article
> Publication in a reliable source is not always good evidence of notability: Wikipedia is not a promotional medium. Self-promotion, autobiography, product placement and most paid material are not valid routes to an encyclopedia article. The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the topic itself (or of its manufacturer, creator, author, inventor, or vendor) have actually considered the topic notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works of their own that focus upon it—without incentive, promotion, or other influence by people connected to the topic matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Self-prom...
He further makes ridiculous claims going to the extreme opposite of deletionism, not recognizing at all the benefits of only having notable content on Wikipedia.
> When pages on Wikipedia are nominated for removal, Deletionpedia automatically pulls the page and adds it to their wiki. Brilliant. It stands to reason, given enough time, Deletionpedia will surpass Wikipedia in usefulness and Wikipedia will die.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for inclusionism but I don't like it when you write articles about yourself and your friends for self-promotion.
Not many of today's people have ever seen an encyclopedia. It's hard to expect them to understand what would fit there.
If the rules were a bit less arbitrary and were applied a bit more consistently you'd probably have less complaining about deletionism. When talking about deletionism / inclusionism it's important to remember that stamina of participants is often as important as notability in whether the article stays / goes.
Also, you're being a little bit unfair about his friend.
> > Lance was already mentioned several times on Wikipedia, so getting the page rolling really just took some cutting and pasting. “American podcaster,” “LA Podcasters,” “Cambridge University,” blah, blah, blah. Links to websites, blogs, press clipping, etc. Click “Save.” I’ve done it.
His friend was notable enough to have already been mentioned on Wikipedia.
The criteria to have an article about a specific person: there are other articles focusing on that specific person in other publications.
The criertia to be mentioned in other contexts on Wikipedia: there are reliable sources that he had a notable role _in that context_.
Edit: I think thats a better example:
If you climbed a certain mountain as the first person ever: probably you are mentioned on the article about that mountain. If you never did anything else of note, why do you need you own page too?
If you are the first person to ever in succession climb all the summits (and others took note of that), you probably have you own article but are not mentioned on every single summits article, maybe on none of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpongeBob_SquarePants_(charact...