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Jessamyn West also moderates Matt Haughey's Metafilter.com. Is this worthy of inclusion?
The librarian-blogger is commonly known simply as Jessamyn West, which is the same as the novelist's. Since her full name is Jessamyn Charity West, I decided to put this article under her full name in order to avoid creating a disambiguation page, and cross-reference the articles to each other. This way, at least some users—the ones that want the novelist—will get what they want without having to follow a link.
The naming convention says "Use the most common name of a person or thing that does not conflict with the names of other people or things." Jessamyn Charity West is not the librarian-blogger's most common name, but her most common name does conflict with the author's name, and the author was there first.
One reason I chose to do this was that I wasn't sure what to use for the disambiguated name. "Jessamyn West (librarian)" would seem to be the obvious names, but the problem is that according to her blog, her current position as librarian ends in April, 2005 and she is moving on to a new position that involves teaching computer skills to the elderly, so "librarian" does not properly describe her, and I don't like any of the other alternatives I could think of such as "Jessamyn West (blogger)" or "Jessamyn West (librarian.net)." Dpbsmith (talk) 20:53, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I've contacted Jessamyn West via email during the course of the VfD. Among other things, she mentioned this:
Is this figure of particular significance outside the library/wikipedia community? The page seems mostly self-created, and does not assert the significance of the author. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacklasa ( talk • contribs)
Indeed. For the record,
There are several direct quotes from both the subject of this article and others but they are not referenced. It's particularly important to reference direct quotes and I hope that editors involved with this article will help find and add the appropriate references. -- ElKevbo 03:07, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
All, this sentence in the opening paragraph has bad grammar, in my opinion, and I can't figure out how best to fix it: "Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is an American librarian and blogger, best known as the creator of librarian.net and for her unconventional views of her profession." The problem, to me, is she is best known as the creator ... and for her views. One's a noun and the other is, well, not a noun. In such lists I believe that consistency is required -- all nouns or all verbs, but not a mixture. If I'm not explaining myself, it's because I can't put my finger on the problem. But does anyone have a way to rephrase the sentence to improve it? -- LegitimateAndEvenCompelling ( talk) 01:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Just an observation. There seems to be a lot of detail on the particular places where she lived. I think it's too much. It doesn't add anything. And is where she lived really encyclopedic? -- LegitimateAndEvenCompelling ( talk) 17:45, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
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West self and publicly identifies as an anarchist, so I added the category back in and included a citation. Jennaf ( talk) 16:26, 23 March 2023 (UTC)