Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gerry Georgatos


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The result was   keep. Nakon 03:24, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Gerry Georgatos

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Non-notable, probably self-promotion. References are tangential: being an occasional rent-a-quote does not notability make. The Drover&#39;s Wife (talk) 04:13, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * KEEP: The guy has won multiple awards for his journalism, as per criteria in WP:ANYBIO. In fact he won the top award from the Government of New South Wales. How can he possibly not be notable? And if you really need other reasons why he's notable, here are some more: The Australian media use Georgatos as their go-to man to interview on Indigenous rights, due to his extensive research / PhD work on the subject. So he's popping up in the media continuously. Continuously. To give an example of the hundreds and hundreds of news items that feature Georgatis, here's a quick scan of Australian TV (ABC TV News) and (SBS TV News). And apart from all that, the charity this guy runs, Wheelchairs for Kids, is huge, and gets huge media attention. Sometimes the media focus on the man (e.g Special Broadcasting Service), sometimes they focus on the charity (e.g. ABC) but they always interview Georgatos in the stories. This article needs to be expanded, not deleted, because it hardly covers the human rights work Georgatos does. Everything is diligently referenced by reliable sources. And in answer to the complainant, no I am not Georgatos, I assume he doesn't know about the article and I'm happy if he doesn't know or he might try to edit it! Pigmypossum (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 14:59, 3 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Neutral. I'm torn on this one. The keep !vote above is full of exaggeration (he is in no way the "go-to man" to interview on indigenous rights - he's had maybe four or five interviews total on the major networks, from what I could make out - and the Wheelchairs for Kids charity does not get "huge media attention"). The article was also pretty selective until I fixed it up a bit, omitting his whole history with the Greens and not referencing the Schapelle Corby conspiracist stuff. On the other hand, he is a fairly prominent spokesman for the Human Rights Alliance, and the media award does give me pause. I don't quite see the independent coverage necessary for me to bump this up to keep yet, but it's close (especially with the Wikileaks spokesmanship as well and his pretty important role in the collapse of that whole enterprise) and I am willing to be convinced. Frickeg (talk) 07:43, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep Has enough of a profile to get close to WP:GNG and his awards should meet WP:ANYBIO.Doctorhawkes (talk) 01:02, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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