Talk:Chas Newkey-Burden

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Writing a biography of Paris Hilton and a few freelance pieces don't seem sufficient to warrant a Wiki entry. Certainly not one where the subject admits writing it himself. Going to flag this for deletion to see what people more expert think. It at least needs to be made into less of a press release. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.177.183 (talk) 12:46, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I'm new on wikipedia. This page is transparently a piece of self-promotion by a professional freelance journalist - if that is fine in Wikipedia then OK. Checking the history of the page it is obvious that the subject (witness the stalking comments) themself - and latterly, the subject's publishing company (Virgin) - has continualy alterered the page to make it favourable to the subject rather than reflecting the truth or allowing dissenting views on the subject's worth as a journalist/writer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by TibbertonUnited (talk • contribs) 19:56, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Newkey-Burden in Private Eye
From Private Eye, No 1217, 22 Aug - 4 Sept 2008:

"More on Chas Newkey-Burden, the hack author turned latest best friend of Julie Burchill whom the Eye pointed out last month had been posting enthusiastic reviews of his own books on the Amazon website (see Eye 1214).

Repeated attempts by Eye readers to update Newkey-Burden's self-penned entry on that other great "free-contribution" website, Wikipedia, in the light of the Eye's revelations, were thwarted by a contributor calling themsleves "Virgin 711".

When challenged, Virgin 711 - whose contributions to the website are limited to the entries on Newkey-Burden and a number of other authors published by Virgin Books - announced that "I believe Private Eye has retracted their allegations now and apologised to CNB. It's against wikipedia's rules to add original research into articles so I haven't added that information (it hasn't been published) but just so you know."

As a service to Wikipedia editors, let it here be recorded in print: have we heck. "

I reverted to deletion on this page of people's comments. Note to the editors involved: you don't delete other people's comments. You can comment on them, by all means, but leave them be.86.133.215.234 (talk) 17:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, can this be put to bed now? I've reworded the section to be a little more neutral (though "reported" is absolutely the right word to use here) and added citations in the correct format. The only issue you might have now is if other editors feel that mentioning this is giving undue weight to the story. Maybe ask at WP:BLP. All the best, Steve  T • C 08:02, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I ran this journalists name through lexis Nexis just now: it found one item written by him for Guardian Unlimited! I suggest deleting the refs to specific publications. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.153.17 (talk) 09:49, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

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