Felix Nartey

[thekohser]

The Felix Nartey (T-H-L) article currently features 10 different references. As a handy guide, I've marked in red all of those that I consider self-referring (i.e., navel-gazing).

Elsharbaty, Samir (16 August 2017). "Felix Nartey named Wikimedian of the Year for 2017". Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
"Wiki Loves Women Team". Wiki Loves Women. Retrieved 2017-08-21.
"Felix Nartey". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
Mizrahi, Ruby; Elsharbaty, Samir; Kozlowski, Tomasz (2017-01-11). "Writing Ghana into Wikipedia: Felix Nartey". Wikimedia Blog. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
Akpah, Prince (2016-03-04). "Ghana Celebrates 15 Years Of Wikipedia". News of the South. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
Gargantini, Gabriele (2016-07-03). "Esino Lario ha fatto "Modifica"". Il Post (in Italian). Retrieved 2017-08-27.
"WikiFundi launched to help editors contribute to Wikipedia offline". WikiFundi. 2017-02-03. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
Esson, Theresah (2017-04-19). "PRAAD receives support to digitise archival information". Graphic Online. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
"Open Foundation West Africa Holds First Creative Commons Salon in Ghana". OFWA. 2017-01-21. Retrieved 2017-08-31. (broken link)
Wikimania 2017 Closing Ceremony. 13 August 2017.

So, that leaves us with three potentially legitimate outside, independent news/biographical sources to support this individual's notability. Let's look further:

1. "Ghana Celebrates 15 Years Of Wikipedia". News of the South. is a lengthy article about how about 8 or 9 Ghanaian Wikipedians got together to slice a cake in honor of Wikipedia. News of the South, according to Alexa, is one of the globe's 1.1 million most-visited websites. This news source is so widely regarded as reliable, it is used as a reference in eight different Wikipedia articles! This news story features such instrumental information to building a Wikipedia biography, such as:
- - - "Upon everyone’s arrival, Mr. Felix Nartey, the community manager kick started the program with a succinct prayer inviting the good Lord to get involved in proceedings."
- - - "Mr Felix Nartey acknowledged that information is expensive. People pay huge sums to get it but Wikipedia exists to change that."
- - - "Mr. Felix (sic) stated with joy that 'it is stories like these that show how important the work we are doing is'."
- - - "Mr. Felix (sic) drove the knife through the heart of the customized Ghanaian version of the 15th Wikipedia anniversary cake to initiate a very important part of the gathering. Hipeee!!!"

2. Gargantini, Gabriele (2016-07-03). "Esino Lario ha fatto "Modifica"". Il Post (in Italian). Here, we get some very important biographical information about Nartey's visit to Wikimania 2016, which I've done my best to translate to English.
- - - "'I'm lost,' says Felix Nartey. He is 26, working on the project and is the 'community manager' of the Ghanaian section of Wikipedia. He says, looking puzzled at a sign which indicates, at the top left, the bar-restaurant-hotel 'Centrale' and later in the same direction, the fresh foods: 'bread, salami, cheeses'. He is thinking of going in that direction, but he is wrong: he has to go to the other side, to where Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is about to talk."
That's it. Nothing more about Nartey from that source.

3. Esson, Theresah (2017-04-19). "PRAAD receives support to digitise archival information". Graphic Online. You'll probably know the publication Graphic Online, due to its top-70,000 Alexa rank, and use as a reference in hundreds of Wikipedia articles about Ghana topics. This particular news article is about a meeting of the Public Records and Archives Administration Department of Ghana's government. There is a ton of biographical detail about Nartey in this news piece:
- - - "For his part, a representative of OFWA, Mr Felix Nartey, said the partnership became necessary after a Daily Graphic publication on the deterioration of records at PRAAD. He stressed the need for state institutions to take crucial steps to store information electronically. He urged private institutions to partner the government to ensure maximum efficiency in national projects and activities. He gave an assurance that although OFWA was supposed to work with the department for six months, there was still the opportunity to continue with its support."
So, we knew he spoke at a government meeting that was open to the public.

Potential COI caught on YouTube video, where Emily Temple-Wood (T-H-L) suggests around August 13, 2017 that Narty will probably have a Wikipedia page about himself within a day. (Though she was wrong -- it took about a week for his biography to magically appear.)

Could someone explain why Mr. Felix -- excuse me -- Mr. Nartey has a Wikipedia biography, when Wikipedia's guidelines clearly state the following?

If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list.

"Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material.

- * - The book-length history of IBM by Robert Sobel is plainly non-trivial coverage of IBM.

- * - Martin Walker's statement, in a newspaper article about Bill Clinton,[1] that "In high school, he was part of a jazz band called Three Blind Mice" is plainly a trivial mention of that band.

Wikipedia's article about Nartey shows that they have no idea about why this banker from Ghana is in any way notable, except that he's a volunteer for Wikipedia who has organized a couple of regional conferences and spoken publicly about Wikipedia.

The multi-count felon former COO of the Wikimedia Foundation whose life story appeared in the Washington Post print edition, and whose criminal past was featured on ABC Nightly News, though, is not similarly notable. Felix Nartey, yes. Carolyn Doran, no.

Hipeee!!!

[thekohser]

It looks like Nartey's Wikipedia biography will get about 3 or 4 page views per day, on average. Good thing the loyal Wikipedians who created and embellished this biography successfully got it posted. I wonder why they didn't go through the "Articles for creation" process, where only 26% of submissions make it out alive?

[Zoloft]

It looks like Nartey's Wikipedia biography will get about 3 or 4 page views per day, on average. Good thing the loyal Wikipedians who created and embellished this biography successfully got it posted. I wonder why they didn't go through the "Articles for creation" process, where only 26% of submissions make it out alive?

Let's have a look at a few of the biographies rejected from the queue:

For fun, we'll focus on women. Wikipedia has a real problem with under-representation of women in its articles. Volunteers even go to edit-a-thons to fix this. Some of these were painstakingly entered by people new to Wikipedia. Their efforts were met by cold rejection.

Draft:Velma_Adams (T-H-L)
This draft was created at an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon
Velma Adams was a painter and sculptor. Her personal papers, photographs and artwork are on display in Autry Museum of the American West

Rejected. Way to go, helping women be better-represented on Wikipedia!

Gertrude_Partington_Albright (T-H-L)
Also created at an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon
Painter, well-exhibited, an illustrator for The San Francisco Examiner, works are in the collections of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and the Oakland Museum of California.

Rejected!

Draft:Elena_Corchero (T-H-L)

Are you a woman in STEM? Up-and-coming, giving TED Talks? Worked for MIT Media Lab?

Sorry, Rejected!

Draft:Chloe_East (T-H-L)
Child actress in TV and Movies?
Too bad!

Off to IMDB with you!

Remember Mary Healey in Brassed Off (T-H-L)?

Draft:Mary_Healey (T-H-L)

Rejected!

I know some of these drafts are in bad shape, but much better than many of Wikipedia's already existing stub articles.
You could make a career in Wikipedia just bringing the thousands of rejected drafts about notable women up to standard.

[thekohser]

You could make a career in Wikipedia just bringing the thousands of rejected drafts about notable women up to standard.

Or a career in Wiki Strategies, or in Beutler Ink, or in MyWikiBiz, or in Legal Morning.

[No Ledge]

You could make a career in Wikipedia just bringing the thousands of rejected drafts about notable women up to standard.

Or a career in Wiki Strategies, or in Beutler Ink, or in MyWikiBiz, or in Legal Morning.

Four well-known wikipediatrician practices. Someone should write a Consumer Reports buyers guide comparing and contrasting the services of these wikipediatricians. With the push of Wikidata into Wikipedia it may become more difficult than ever to get a birth date corrected, further driving demand for these services.

[Kingsindian]

I recall someone from (or perhaps having a COI with) Consumer Reports already entering stuff from their website into Wikipedia.

[Poetlister]

How can the Wikimedia blog possibly be regsrded as a reliable source?