Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey St. Clair (2nd nomination)
Somebody is challenging the notability of Jeffrey St. Clair?" I asked myself — "THAT Jeffrey St. Clair?!?!" Yep, so it seems. Once again we run into the dysfunctional aspect of GNG when it comes to biographies of journalists and editors. Publications do not write about people who write for their competitors; publications who write about their contributors are considered "self-sourced" according to a strict reading of GNG. So you have a situation where Alexander Cockburn's colleague at ''Counterpunch,'' a prolific writer of books and articles, a contributing editor at ''In These Times,'' is essentially unsourcable under the rules. This is a case for common sense, for application of the Wikipedia fundamental ''policy'' of . I have made similar arguments for other journalists before and I expect I shall again until we address this problem head-on with an RFC for a Special Notability Guideline for journalists and editors. Which we really do need to do. Don't overthink this one, this is a common sense keep in the face of inherent structural sourcing issues for an entire profession
— User:Carrite, 16:10, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IGNOREALLRULES (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)