Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doug Thorburn
Aside from extensive blog entries and many Google Books hits (for his own writings), Thorburn has received very little coverage. The most in-depth coverage I could find was http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-bibliography.html this (and the http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-letters36.html#Thorburn expanded version) - hardly an ironclad reliable source. A mention in the Mises Journal initially looked promising, but turned out to be an http://mises.org/journals/liberty/Liberty_Magazine_December_2004.pdf advertisement. His name shows up in many real articles, but often only as author in a "further reading" type section, or very briefly, as http://www.robertprechter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Might-Edward-de-Vere-Have-Suffered-from-Alcoholism.pdf, http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/addiction-substance-abuse-financial-disaster-1264.php, http://lasdnews.net/clepp/feb03-newsltr.pdf. Although some of these passing mentions are in fully reliable sources, as http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-alcohol-a-truth-serum/ CBS (misspelled 'Thorbrun'), http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/nyregion/08bigcity.html?_r=0 NYT, http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12846398 San Jose Mercury, in my opinion, this does not add up to passing  or , and ''certainly'' is insufficient to provide references for the article at its present length. --quantumobserver
— User:Quantumobserver, 20:07, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)