Corinna Löckenhoff is an associate professor of something at some university somewhere. Apparently that was enough for an editor (
Biografer (T-C-L)) to make an article about her. But it had some problems, so she naively tried to fix it herself. Her edits were reverted and she was blocked for impersonating a real person. After she confirmed her identity and was unblocked, she wrote this on the article's talk page:
Some proposed changes
Someone created this wikipedia site about me without my knowledge. I'm just a random academic, not a public figure, and don't really need a wikipedia page. The problem is, the page is wrong. It's misrepresenting my affiliations, it's misrepresenting my work, it has typos and looks highly unprofessional. I'm currently up for promotion and when I noticed the faulty page I tried to fix it immediately so nobody who is supposed to review me gets the wrong impression.
None of the changes I made are controversial in any way - they just make sure that my affiliations are correct, my work is described correctly, and readers are pointed to original sources describing my work (instead of excerpts from news articles that are glossing over key details). I provided cites for all the info.
When I finally got it fixed (took me a couple of hours since I don't speak "Wikipedia") I realized that soon thereafter Drm310 undid my edits Could someone please to one of the following (1) completely delete the page (I really don't need one, my departmental website is all the professional representation I need) (2) turn it to a stub that reads "Corinna Löckenhoff is an associate professor of Human Development at Cornell University and Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.[1]" it should have my Orcid ID at the bottom along with a link to my google scholar site. (3) let my original edits stand
Thanks in advance.
Loeckenhoff (talk) 15:20, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
Result?
Unable to implement
Requests to delete an article are handled through articles for deletion.
Requests to change content in an article are handled in the form of "Change x to y using z".
Kindly open a new edit request at your earliest convenience when ready to proceed.
Regards, Spintendo 02:41, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
So someone put it up for deletion. The
deletion discussion is amazing. I'll just give you one sample:
The article subject has requested the page be deleted - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cori ... B6ckenhoff
Policy on deletion requests from subjects is at WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE: "Discussions concerning biographical articles of relatively unknown, non-public figures, where the subject has requested deletion and there is no rough consensus, may be closed as delete."
The subject arguably notes that she is not notable in Wikipedia terms. I will AGF and support her view in this with this AfD. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:48, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
The subject is notable per WP:Academics #3. The subject can say whatever.
If this article will be deleted, I will assume that you are no longer a Wikipedian and will recreate it per above guideline. --Biografer (talk) 03:56, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
Ok, two samples:
The thing is, is that this article was to no-ones attention until the subject peeped out of nowhere and now we need to abide by her wishes. If she was not notable at the time of the writing, then maybe she should have been deleted by an admin before this debate. As it stands, we have subject that is deemed notable by @David Eppstein: and @Ipigott: (and me, as creator), and
we have like three to four people here who apparently felt sorry for the subject (or maybe fell in love with her, because geez, a lady coming to WP makes us men blush). Just my theory, don't take it personally.--Biografer (talk) 21:29, 11 January 2020 (UTC)