Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Sosa


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The result was   delete. None of the SPAs managed to convincingly prove the subject meets WP:JOURNALIST § FreeRangeFrog croak 03:53, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Chris Sosa

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The references are all mainly primary sources written by the subject. There are no few secondary sources written by others about the subject. The article fails all criteria at WP:JOURNALIST, notability has not been established. WWGB (talk) 22:43, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Note to closing admin: This debate is littered with single-purpose accounts and recently established users. I suggest rampant sockpuppetry. WWGB (talk) 04:43, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep. Entry contains many secondary sources. Subject meets criteria 3 (and possibly 1) for WP:JOURNALIST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.44.221.110 (talk • contribs) 21:21, 10 November 2014
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 * Delete. 60% of the sources are blatantly by the subject himself. This leaves 6 sources that don't begin with "Chris Sosa". Of the rest:
 * Fr. Lawrence Farley. "http://myocn.net/historical-contradictions-fast/". myocn.net. Retrieved 10 November 2014. — is a Christian website that portrays the religion with a deep POV
 * "Breaking News: Jesus Did Not Exist (Part I)". jesusiswonderful.com. Retrieved 10 November 2014.[dead link] — is another point of view, dead-linked Christian website
 * Troy Spears. "Is humanism speciesism?". stanislaushumanists.org. Retrieved 10 November 2014. — is a proof for something else entirely
 * James Croft. "Humanists Are Not Human Exceptionalists". Patheos.com. Retrieved 10 November 2014. — is also a proof for something else entirely
 * Brittany Maynard ends own life". Today.com. Retrieved 10 November 2014. — is an article about Brittany Maynard's suicide and mentions Sosa in passing
 * Amanda Marcotte. "Ann Coulter Is Not a Satirist". Slate.com. Retrieved 10 November 2014. — talks about Ann Coulter and only mentions Sosa as a journalist who wrote about the same thing
 * That leaves a basically unsourced BLP that fails the general notability guideline. These secondary sources are barely even brief mentions. Epicgenius (talk) 03:00, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep.*Numerous secondary sources have been added and the page meets WP:JOURNALIST criteria for notability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Azariah southworth (talk • contribs)
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 * NOTE:User:108.44.221.110 appears to be a sockpuppet of User:Azariah southworth. WWGB (talk) 04:32, 11 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. This article reads more like an "About me" page on a blog than an encyclopedic article. The majority of the article is about Sosa's political, moral, and religious views, and not what he's actually known for. ~ Dissident93  (talk) 19:43, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Entry contains many secondary sources. Subject meets criteria 3 (and possibly 1) for WP:JOURNALIST. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.216.166.75 (talk • contribs)
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 * Weak keep, Subject seems to be non-notable at one go. When googled for the subject there are few mentions that mention him as a journalist. Although there seems to be a conflict of interest between creator and subject. If decision is keep, it requires to be cleaned up to sound non-promotionalShashanksinghvi334 (talk) 03:44, 14 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:GNG and analysis by Epicgenius. You can't blog (or sock) your way to notability.  Logical Cowboy (talk) 05:06, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I cannot find significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:04, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete His strongest point of notability is writing for Salon, which although an online publication does seem to have editorial oversight. Writing for HuffPost much less so. Of the references that are third-party, all of the ones that I could find were responses to two articles of his. None were about him as a journalist. I am also dismayed at the number of accounts weighing in to this AfD that appear to have been created for the purpose of "voting" on this nomination. There appears to be both an agenda and a mis-understanding of the process. It is not a "majority vote" but a discussion to resolve issues. Not WP:NOTABLE. LaMona (talk) 23:12, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
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