Talk:Rudy Franchi

Notability ?

I am not sure that this biographic article meets the Wikipedia criteria of Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (people), specifically:

The person has not been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person.

I also suspect that it may violate the policies found at Wikipedia:Autobiography. This could be grounds for Wikipedia:Proposed deletion. Could the editor please address these issues? Thanks -- NYArtsnWords 22:28, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rudy Franchi of Antiques Roadshow, NY Film Bulletin, Bleecker Street Cinema/bio

I think I've been a bit too modest in my bio, which gives the impression I'm not quite noted enough to have a Wiki entry.

Working backwards: there's 11 seasons on Antiques Roadshow. Of all the appraisers on the show, I have perhaps the most on air appearences in what is the highest rated regularly broadcast show on the PBS Network.

I'm regarded as one of the top three experts world wide in the field of original movie posters. I've written a book on the subject and I've run major poster auctions at Skinner of Boston, Heritage of Dallas and Christie's, New York

I've made appearences on The Today Show, CNN, ABC News and dozens of local tv stations. I've been the subject of articles and interviews in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and dozens of other newspapers and magazines.

While living in Canada, I was a regular on the CBC Radio Network, with my own movie program.

In the world of film: My publication, NY Film Bulletin, was at the forefront of promoting the Auteur Theory in the U.S. and its translations of articles from Cahiers Du Cinema, its interviews with Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais helped establish The New Wave in America. The Bleecker Street Cinema was a center for the independent film scene in New York and I launched the American release of such major experimental films as Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising.

A Google search on "rudy franchi" brings up over 600 entries. What you gotta do to be famous around here? Regards, rudy franchi

Rudy Franchi - I appreciate the information on notability you have given above, but please keep in mind the following advice from Wikipedia:Autobiography:

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to Wikipedia:No original research, Wikipedia:Neutral point of view, and Wikipedia:Verifiability.

If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles.)

Note that anything you submit can be edited by others. Several autobiographical articles have been a source of dismay to their original authors after a period of editing by the community, and in at least four instances have been listed for deletion by their original authors. In some cases the article is kept even if the original author requests otherwise. People are generally unable to determine whether they are themselves encyclopedic.

One thing which you can do to assist other Wikipedia editors is, if you already maintain a personal website, please ensure that any information that you want in your Wikipedia article is already on your own website. As long as it's not involving grandiose claims like, "I was the first to create this widget," or "My book was the biggest seller that year," a personal website can be used as a reference for general biographical information. As the Wikipedia Verifiability policy states: Self-published sources and other published sources of dubious reliability may be used as sources in articles about themselves . . . so long as the information is notable, not unduly self-aggrandizing, and not contradicted by other published sources.

Thanks- NYArtsnWords 15:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What do you have to do to be famous around here? Get people to publish about you elsewhere. Our test for notability is whether independent people/organizations have chosen to publish content primarily about someone/something. See User:Uncle G/On notability for an explanation of the test. See Wikipedia:Independent sources for an explanation of why we need this. See Wikipedia:Notability (people) for the specific guidelines for biographical articles.

You say above that you've got the requisite coverage. The other big thing you can do to help is to cite the coverage, the same way an academic researcher would. Citations with URL links are easier for others to follow, so more likely to get other people to follow up to create a decent article in relatively short time. GRBerry 21:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Full Disclosure: Rudy is my dad...but here are some other articles about him if it helps?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/09/23/DI2005092301197.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/series/appraisers/f-k/franchi.html Legotech 23:24, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]