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Ok, so it's annoyed me for a long time that Chris Smith hasn't been recognized on Wikipedia with his own page, he's certainly notable enough! I've written the following article for him, but it got declined because there aren't enough references to prove notability (which is BS because Tina's article has the same amount of references) 

So i'm looking to enlist the help of the knowledgeable people on UM, if you have anything to contribute, edit the article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matthewm192/sandbox (reference no2 is a clip of vintage Scott btw)

If you can find ANY article anywhere referencing Chris, but don't know how to add it then just reply below and I'm sure I'll be able to include it. 

Thank you for your help!

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1 hour ago, matthewm192 said:

Ok, so it's annoyed me for a long time that Chris Smith hasn't been recognized on Wikipedia with his own page, he's certainly notable enough! I've written the following article for him, but it got declined because there aren't enough references to prove notability (which is BS because Tina's article has the same amount of references) 

So i'm looking to enlist the help of the knowledgeable people on UM, if you have anything to contribute, edit the article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matthewm192/sandbox (reference no2 is a clip of vintage Scott btw)

If you can find ANY article anywhere referencing Chris, but don't know how to add it then just reply below and I'm sure I'll be able to include it. 

Thank you for your help!

I think it's like Twitter verification - you need a lot of sources.

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2 hours ago, WELOVEMOYLESPART2 said:

His days of working alongside Christian O Connell at Virgin Radio

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Yeah I wasn't 100% sure on that. Atm the only reference I have of him and O'Connell was on a DigitalSpy thread and that mentioned them both on 5 Live at some point but no mention of Virgin. Is this documented anywhere do you know?

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They talked about how Chris Smith didn't have a Wikipedia page on the podcast a couple of weeks ago - was that after you'd already made the page?

I started writing the page months ago and posted this way before they said that - but my page was only in my sandbox not an actual wiki page so they didn't know it existed. Now somehow someone has written one and it got accepted despite mine having just as much if not more info. Hey ho

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Smith_(newsreader))

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