Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin McElroy (journalist)
without prejudice against recreation in the future if someone can do much better than this. There are ''potentially'' valid notability claims here, but they're not being |reliably sourced: the reference pool here depends far too strongly on pieces of his own writing (a person gets a Wikipedia article by being the ''subject'' of sources written by other ''people'', not the bylined ''author'' of reliable source coverage of other ''things''), |primary sources that cannot assist notability at all, and glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things. And Audiovideodiscoo's pile of additional sources above are not an improvement: most of them represent the exact same kinds of bad sources, and the ones that don't are still press releases from organizations he's directly affiliated with, WorldCat directory entries which do not count as evidence of notability, and blogs or podcasts. None of them represent "substantive coverage about him in reliable sources that are independent of him", which is what  requires — referencing an article to Wikipedia's satisfaction is not just a matter of finding ''any'' web page that happens to support the content you want to find a reference for. Only certain specific ''types'' of sources (namely ''media'' coverage ''about'' him) count as support for notability, and there's a specific minimum ''number'' of such sources that have to be shown before he's got ''enough'', and there's a specific minimum ''depth'' of about-him-ness that a source has to ''surpass'' before it's about him enough to ''count'' toward that number. And ''none'' of the sources, either in the article or in the pile of additional sources shown above, are meeting all of the required standards
— User:Bearcat, 19:59, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)