Talk:Alexander Boot

Dalrymple
In his foreword to The Crisis Behind Our Crisis (St Matthew Publishing, 2011, 978-1901546385) Theodore Dalrymple says of it "Alexander Boot delves far deeper than anyone else into the origins of the current crisis. With implacable logic and a grasp of history far superior to that of other commentators, he shows that the economic crisis is not merely economic, but spiritual."

Notability
added a template on 13 October 2021, with the concern "Writer of no discernible notability. The article does not contain evidence that Boot passes WP:NJOURNALIST or WP:GNG, and a  WP:BEFORE shows no coverage that I could find about Boot in WP:RSes. Would need independent third-party RS coverage of Boot to be kept. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but it would need to be shown."

This is fair enough, and I am working on it. The issue here is WP:GNG. There is substantial coverage of Boot’s early life in Owen Matthews’s article "Missing, Presumed Alive" in The Salisbury Review, and all key facts of his later life can be reliably sourced. There is some use of primary sources, and I agree those need to be used with caution, but in policy terms they can be relied on for simple facts, if not opinion. I am going to remove the template, as it says "The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven days, i.e., after 23:03, 20 October 2021 (UTC)." No objection to an AfD, but there is more work to be done here, it might save wasted effort to revisit that in another week. Moonraker (talk) 05:14, 19 October 2021 (UTC)


 * you just deleted the tags without actually fixing the tagged problems, so how's it been going fixing them since October? - David Gerard (talk) 17:44, 5 August 2022 (UTC)


 * , on your tag, that should be discussed here if challenged. You had not replied, and you have also not answered my edit summary. But do please say something. Moonraker (talk) 18:31, 5 August 2022 (UTC)