Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Urso Chappell


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The result was keep. The Blade of the Northern Lights ( 話して下さい ) 16:40, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Urso Chappell

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Not able to find reliable sources other than passing mentions of his blog. Not notable per WP:BIO. 9H48F (talk) 16:15, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. 9H48F (talk) 16:15, 31 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 18:26, 31 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep widely cited, if you do WP:BEFORE.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:51, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 *  Delete  he is cited, as topic experts are. But I'm only getting a couple of dozen hits on this name in a Proquest news archive search, mere mentions, brief topic-expert quotes.   Fails WP:SIGCOV.    E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:28, 4 June 2019 (UTC) Rethink.
 * To be clear, Chappell has a very cool blog, [expomuseum.com The World's fair museum since 1998], it covers World's fairs and it/he gets cited by major newspapers because he really knows stuff about World's fairs, but there is not enough in depth coverage of him or of the blog to keep a page.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:58, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * EMG, As you say, he is cited. I was thinking of these articles that seem to be good coverage at least establish GNG: The Chicago tribune, this book, this citation in Time Magazine, being quoted in the New York Times, being quoted in the NY Times again, showing up here in hte Wall Street Journal, quoted in CNN here, and here in the National (Dubai). It's not perfect, but to me it's enough to parse the basics without much interpretation.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 12:48, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep per first three sources listed by User:ThatMontrealIP, which are WP:SIGCOV. But also because I was being very 20th century, more or less expecting that if he was a notable expert there would be journal articles, a book or 2 he had written And book reviews.  This is a new model, where the expert publishes on a blog, and is notable because people treat him as a notable expert.  Keep per WP:AUTHOR:3.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:42, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


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