I was happy about the Wikipedia entry for Online Community Manager because awhile ago someone posted links to a couple of my blog posts as ‘suggested links’. I was going to blog about it this week.
But today I found this note there with the proposal to delete the entry for Online Community Manager due to lack of Original Research.
So to prevent that I reworked the article & replaced what was there with Jeremiah’s 4 Tenets of Community Managers. That seems appropriate as Original Research, don’t you think? Please add your ideas. It’s Wikipedia.
But let’s not be deleted, ok? I mean let’s not let the entry be deleted!
I dropped you an email to what I think is a correct address explaining my edits on your initial page. The article is likely just good enough now that it’s arguably encyclopedic in nature. But it really could use some more independent, reliable references. It’s also still unbalanced to the commercial side of the field. And JO is a bit overrepresented. Those kinds of things can bug the Wikipedia admin folks.
Anyway, hopefully other Wikipedians are also community folks, will see this post, and keep adding value to the entry.
Scott
Thanks Scott for the great help. It looks much better. I’ll work on finding some more sources.