Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J.J. McCullough (3rd nomination)
As with the prior attempts, this is still referenced not to |reliable sources that properly contextualize his notability, but primarily to his own |self-published content. As always, a journalist is not automatically notable just because his work technically metaverifies its own existence in contribution directories on the websites of his own employers — notability as a journalist requires ''other'' media outlets, who are ''not'' the issuers of his paycheques, to ''independently'' establish the significance of his journalism by writing analytical content ''about'' him and his impact in the ''third'' person. Content on Twitter and YouTube also does not speak to notability at all, because those are |user generated platforms, and neither do Q&A interviews in which the subject of the article is doing the speaking about himself or other things. So once you toss all the footnotes here that are doing ''nothing'' to establish his notability, there's literally only one GNG-worthy footnote left in the article — and even it's not about him strongly enough to carry him over GNG all by itself as the ''only'' acceptable source in the article, either, because it's about an incident rather than him as a person and thus flunks . This is ''not'' how you establish the notability of a journalist, regardless of whether he's of the left or the right
— User:Bearcat, 19:32, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:SELFPUB||WP:USERG||WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)