Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pete Brewton


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The result was keep. Davewild (talk) 20:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Pete Brewton

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A WP:BLP with no reliable independent sources (bad idea), discussing a conspiracy theorist. I find his theories ideologically consonant, but I don't see any evidence that his work is considered significant by reliable independent sources. Guy (Help!) 10:50, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete . Despite the article's claim, there is no evidence that his book was a best seller or notable outside the usual conspiracy websites. Fails WP:AUTHOR. Fails WP:PROF. - Location (talk) 00:07, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. E.M.Gregory has done a good job finding sources that show mainstream coverage. - Location (talk) 15:11, 12 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per Location --nonsense ferret  16:02, 10 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep. I think it meets notability requirements for a short article. I was able to find two articles in the New York Times that mention Brewton. He appeared on TV with Bill Moyers in 1991, and is mentioned in a 1990 article on the CIA. He is identified as a reporter for the Houston Post who has been investigating the savings and loan scandal. The fact that the Post was purchased by the Houston Chronicle in 1995 may mean that some of Brewton's journalistic work remains offline, if the Chronicle didn't digitize the archives they acquired from the Post. Roches (talk) 16:10, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I think those mentions might be what are considered "trivial". There are also similar blurbs in the early 1990s about his coverage of the S&L crisis in the LA Times, Mother Jones, and Newsweek. I guess the question is whether or not these mentions are enough to build a stand-alone article via WP:AUTHOR or whether there should be a redirect to some part of Savings and loan crisis. - Location (talk) 17:01, 10 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. We need something a bit more hefty than what Roches discovered to pass the WP:FRIND-threshold, in my opinion. jps (talk) 14:47, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep sourcing now. You have to search older sources, that book was a big deal at the time.  But WP:NOTTEMPORARY.E.M.Gregory (talk) 13:13, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * In ~1990 there was an entire literature centered on this book. I've sourced the article with things that come to the top of Proquest Newspaper searches; am not spending the time to do it up in detail. But I have edited the page as it existed a little, removing some unsourced material. I am not persuaded that it qualifies as WP:FRIND. Certainly, columnists tend to like Brewton's investigative newspaper series/book  or not depending on whether they are part of America's right or left wing.  But quite a number of mainstream newspaper such as The Salt Lake Tribune  and the Journal Star (Peoria)  cite Brewton and his book.series on fact.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:03, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * added faculty page as a source. I suspect that the journalism awards listed there are all real and can be sourced, at least, I certainly stumbled into 2 awards without going past the first page of a search.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:18, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Bad idea, IMO. That page is self-sourced and does not establish who the awards are from or for what. Guy (Help!) 15:53, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any reason to doubt the authenticity of the claims, especially since Texas Tech is the publisher. I don't have the same access to searching sources as E.M.Gregory, however, I did find confirmation of the PEN Center USA award here. Unrelated, but another post from Texas Tech here. - Location (talk) 03:08, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, [[User:Location. Added the PEN prize to the page.  It is pretty routine to link the faculty page to an academic's WP bio.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep Nice job of sourcing the article during the AfD. --I am One of Many (talk) 08:55, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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