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Adding the name of a non-notable individual to a stand-alone list of alumni is bad for several reasons. It undermines Wikipedia's legitimacy as an encyclopedia. Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites provide people a forum to discuss their lives. Wikipedia is meant to provide factual information about notable topics.
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This guideline contains conventions on how to name Wikipedia articles about individual people. It should be read in conjunction with Wikipedia's general policy on article naming, Wikipedia:Article titles, and, for articles on living or recently deceased people, also in conjunction with the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy, which explicitly also applies to article titles.
Wikipedia's goal is not merely to be a directory of things and people that currently exist today – defunct corporations and ghost towns and dead people can still be notable, and can still have legitimate and reliably sourceable reasons why readers might be looking for information about who and what they were.
In borderline cases, it should not be necessary to immediately block the username but rather to attempt to discuss the problem. For instance, not every name that includes "Jimbo" is a misleading reference to Jimbo Wales or impersonating him; there are many people named Jimbo, and new users may not even know who Jimbo Wales is. Similarly, not ...
Because that's not what people use. People named William and James get their names shortened. People named George typically do not. People named Ronald sometimes do, but when they also have sons named Ronald, calling the elder Ronald and the younger Ron is perhaps the best way to disambiguate. That's just how the names work.
That time you got a girlfriend (Seriously, you're editing Wikipedia. Be realistic). An article about an essay that uses Hangman to explain the subject. We already have the essay, don't need the article too. An article that is just a resume so you can possibly get hired by people who googled your name. It’s not quirky, it’s just unsourced ...