Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Portal (podcast)


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The result was merge to Eric Weinstein. Daniel (talk) 20:50, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

The Portal (podcast)

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The podcast does not pass WP:GNG. The host might pass, but the podcast does not WP:INHERIT notability from its hosts or guests. The only sources currently being cited that might be independent and reliable are the Essentially Sports article and the Brave New Coin article. However, neither source has more than a trivial mention of the podcast. Eric Weinstein has written for Big Think so any sources from that website are not independent. There are quite a few trivial mentions of the podcast such as these articles by Vice, The Hill, and The New York Times (none of these even dedicate a full sentence to the podcast) There is an WP:INTERVIEW source from Fox News, but that would be considered a primary source. TipsyElephant (talk) 19:56, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Eric Weinstein. Agree that this doesn't inherit notability, though disagree about Big Think. Still, the article doesn't warrant a full article, just a redirect/merge with Weinstein. – Broccoli &#38; Coffee  (Oh hai) 00:39, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Eric Weinstein wrote five articles for Big Think in 2017, the Big Think article cited here was by a different author and in 2019 so it feels a bit pedantic to claim this isn't an independent source. I would also support a merge to Eric Weinstein as an alternative to deletion. NemesisAT (talk) 13:26, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets WP:GNG. The sources from Essentially Sports, Brave New Coin, Fox News and Big Think (from a different author) are reliable enough and satisfy WP:THREE IMV. SBKSPP (talk) 00:58, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Eric Weinstein. There's basically nothing to say about it except that it exists; the "Essentially Sports" item is a brief mention that's far from significant coverage, and "Brave New Coin" is yet another garbage crypto enthusiast site. The Fox News item is a primary source, as the nominator points out; moreover, it's in the area of politics and science, for which Fox is yellow-flagged. All that's left is Big Think... one of whose initial investors was Weinstein's employer, Peter Thiel. Even if we ignored the peculiarly entangled situation of that source, it's still only one source, an announcement of the podcast's launching that by its nature cannot demonstrate sustained interest in it. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 02:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)


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