Talk:Steven L. Herman

message: Edit conflict with above... I started looking through the refs, not sure if I should go on if the article is to be AfD'd... here's what I got so far:
*http://www.insidevoa.com/media-relations/experts/117955284.html an internal VOA organ. Reliable for uncontentious statements of fact, I would suppose. Use to support the statement "is a broadcast correspondent and bureau chief for the Voice of America". Ref does support this.
*http://tvtokyo.com/steve.html. Not sure what "TV Tokyo" is but 1) it appears to be just some sort of directory or something rather than a newspaper or whatever, and 2) much of the material here seems to be a copy-paste from the VoA site (the above reference). So this appears to not be a good ref. It's used to source that statement either that he had a piece or pieces numerous publications (or that he has been published in the WSJ, not clear). Since it's a word-for-for copy of the VoA site and less reliable, it's not acceptable.
*http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/1828 is an organ of the Foreign Correspondent's Club of Japan. The reliability of an internal club organ is probably not high, depending on the material it supports. It supports "...one-year term as President of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ)" so it would be reliable for this, I would say. 
*The next ref is an exact repeat of #3. The next one is also TV Tokyo, but a different page: http://tvtokyo.com/19-16905.pdf. It support the statement "On July 14, 2009 the Tokyo District Court awarded Herman, as plaintiff, more than Yen 1,700,000 in his civil libel case filed against conspiracy theorist Benjamin Fulford and Fulford's publisher (Herman vs. Fulford, Fusosha & M. Katagiri)" Unfortunately it's in Japanese, and since it's a PDF I can't even run it through machine translation. I wish I knew more about TV Tokyo. The site's home page just says "TOKYO RADIO & TELEVISION DIRECTORY" and appears to be just a list of links to other sites... I would wish for an article from The Japan Times or the Yomiuri Shimbun or something rather than this... I would not be inclined to accept this ref as a reliable source.
*The next ref is http://www.wasedamarketing.com/staticpages/index.php/board is an internal organ of the the Waseda Marketing Forum, which appears to be some kind of professional association or something (not sure). At any rate, its only used to source the assertion that Herman is on it's advisory board and it's reliable as a source for that assertion, I would say. Whether this is worthwhile information is another matter.
*The next ref is http://www.rushprnews.com/2009/11/06/voa-correspondent-wins-international-broadcasting-award-for-sri-lanka-coverage. The "PR" in "RushPR" does seem indeed to mean public relations, and their "about us" page says that they are a "public relations social media newswire"... not clear exactly what that means, but at least part of what they do is, I think, write and publish press-release-type things. It's used to source that statement "his 2009 coverage of the end of the Sri Lankan Civil War won an Association for International Broadcasting International Media Excellence Award" and I would say that it is not a good source for that. However, AIB has a website and here is their list of 2009 award winners. Unfortunately its neither HTML nor PDF but some kind of proprietary page-presentation software program which I can't get to work very well - it seems to be poorly designed or executed and is essentially unusable - and which we couldn't use as a source (we can't use programs as sources). However, it does have a search function, and the string "Herman" returns no result, so either the search function doesn't work or Herman didn't get an award in 2009 or I'm missing something. At any rate, it's probably not important, the AIB awards look to be basically log-rolling and probably not worth mentioning (granted, one could say this of the the Oscars and Emmys etc. also, but they are inherently notable and the AIB awards probably not).
**(OK, to update on this, another search found what I think is referred to: The AIB did give a "Commended" (which is kind of like a silver medal in this case) to VoA's coverage of the war in Sri Lanka. However, Herman is not mentioned by name (no one is, and this seems usual for the AIB, the commendation is for the coverage or I guess you could say for the whole team). Anyway, assuming that Herman was involved in this coverage (I assume this is true), its a bit of a stretch to say "his coverage" won an award. At any rate, we don't have a reliable source that we can use for any of this, so it would have to be removed, I would say.) Herostratus (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Vetting refs

message: Well, it's hard to keep this all straight, so what I've done is, removed all the material that is unsourced or sourced with citations that, especially considering that this is a WP:BLP, of insufficient quality per WP:RS. This is based on my assessment of the references in the "vetting the references" section above.
I also removed the ham-radio material. This was sourced, but is trivial in my opinion. This is arguable.
As to the other sources that are talked about in the sections above, I'm not inclined myself to vet sources that are not in the article nor to to add material from sources that are on the talk page, since I don't have a particular interest in this subject. But if others want to add in material based on these sources that of course is fine, provided of course that they are of sufficient reliability for a BLP. Herostratus (talk) 05:30, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice one, at least its a good tidy cited position that can be developed on, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) 15:58, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving forward 

message: Well, User:HL9OA restored all the unsourced and extraneous material in the article (with an edit summary of "[Restore] malicious and unwarranted deletion of relevant and validated material". According to this, User:HL9OA is Steven L. Herman himself. He might be, or -- and this would be a lot worse -- this might be a false flag and he might be an enemy of Herman trying to make Herman look like Roland Hedley -- that is, a vainglorious, narcissistic, and ridiculous news talking head who thinks he's a lot more important than he really is.
Anyway, if it's the former, it's a WP:Autobiography issue, and if it's the latter it's a WP:BLP issue. And Herman -- or his bete noir, whichever it is -- has a dynamic IP address, I'd infer, and so we're likely to see this again. So let's keep an eye on this. Herostratus (talk) 02:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's on my watch list. I will keep an eye on it. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 02:59, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enough already 

message: Please add that Herman is now also the President of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club. 
Reference: http://www.sfcc.or.kr/eng/sfcc/sfcc_ceo.asp
121.160.92.154 (talk) 05:58, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 1 May 2012 

message: Please note that Herman is now based in Bangkok as VOA's Southeast Asia bureau chief. 
Reference: https://www.opcofamerica.org/news/voas-herman-tours-north-korea
: Done. Thanks for the update. --Stfg (talk) 17:30, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request on 6 October 2013 

message: I have left my posting in Thailand and am now VOA's Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, based at the State Department in Washington, DC. 
190.255.36.82 (talk) 19:53, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Also, please keep WP:COI in mind — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 20:51, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. DRAGON BOOSTER  ★ 10:33, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 September 2016 

message: Steven L. Herman has been named VOA's White House Bureau Chief, effective Monday, February 27th, 2017, and is now based in Voice of America's Washington, DC bureau. 
Please update "Steven L Herman is a broadcast correspondent and chief of Voice of America's Southeast Asia bureau, based in Bangkok.[1]" to:
"Steve Herman is Voice Of America's White House Bureau Chief, currently based in Washington, DC." 
https://www.voanews.com/author/4365.html 
Corq (talk) 12:55, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. -- Dane talk  21:53, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 March 2017 

message: NPR reports subject was the target of possibly unlawful political interference from two senior USAGM appointees: https://www.npr.org/2020/10/04/919266194/political-aides-investigate-voa-white-house-reporter-for-anti-trump-bias. Suggested addition: On October 4, 2020, NPR reported that two Pack aides had compiled a report on Herman's social media postings and other writings in an attempt to charge him with a conflict of interest, and that the agency released a conflict of interest policy stating in part that a "journalist who on Facebook 'likes' a comment or political cartoon that aggressively attacks or disparages the President must recuse themselves from covering the President." 156.98.118.108 (talk) 17:22, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request: political interference from senior USAGM appointees 

message: I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 15:11, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I am Steven L Herman. I am no longer White House bureau chief and am now VOA's chief national correspondent. See: https://www.voanews.com/author/steve-herman/yuqqt and https://www.sej.org/sejspotlight-steve-herman-chief-national-correspondent-voice-america If someone is able to update the entry it would be greatly appreciated.  W7voa (talk) 15:15, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited material in need of citations