Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Turton


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 23:35, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Michael Turton

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An English teacher in Taiwan who keeps a blog about politics. Nothing that meets WP:JOURNALIST, WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO. Page alleges that he has a "regular column with Taiwan News", but I'm only seeing 6 posts all in the past 2 months. Ref 2, 4, 5 are opinion pieces by himself. None of the references talks about him in depth except for Ref 7 (an interview) and maybe Ref 3 (which focuses on his anti-Mormon diatribes in relation to his evangelical background, but that information is absent in the article). There seems to be some WP:ADVOCACY going on by the page creator, because his other recent articles Brian Hioe (also on AFD) and J Michael Cole are also political bloggers on Taiwan with a certain sociopolitical leaning, and along with this article serve as each other's references and incoming links. Timmyshin (talk) 00:33, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. — Sam Sailor 03:22, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Taiwan-related deletion discussions. — Sam Sailor 03:22, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. North America1000 17:22, 16 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Just a blogger, of whom there are legion. Xxanthippe (talk) 04:45, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as simply an article with announcements, listings and mentions sugarcoating an article with simple information, not only is that not actual substance but it shows there's simply nothing else better. SwisterTwister   talk  05:54, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable blogger.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:14, 20 January 2017 (UTC)


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