Talk:William Rivers Pitt

message: Delete- Who is William Rivers Pitt in American Society? Let me crack open a history book and find his contribution to the United States which would warrant a Wiki entry...... Hmmm, cant find anything.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.110.84.56 (talk) 23:17, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nonsense. I have some personal beefs with Pitt, I think he arbitrarily and jealously trashed my submissions, but he's a servicibly good commentary writer, and Truth Out is a very good compendium of short-ish liberal news. In the Rove indictment story, I think Leopold was mislead by a source or tried to hit a home run on a pitch in the dirt, and jumped way out on indications that weren't solid. I doubted it when he ran it, but the lust for fame is understandable- it is everything in USA. If you delete this listing you will be like the Soviets making records of non-person vanish- not what Wikipedia is supposed to be.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.238.67.121 (talk • contribs) .
DELETE - how on Earth is this nobody remotely worthy of an article. He's an Internet commenter. There are literally tens of millions of people who have equally contributed to discourse. The subject clearly posted this article himself and it is thus the textbook definition of vanity posting. How does this possibly get by Wiki editors? And if you ARE going to insist on keeping the article (for clearly politically biased reasons), how can you possibly justify excluding the Karl Rove indictment fiasco - the single event for which Pitt is most widely known and most easily identified?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.87.122.201 (talk) 19:51, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He was Kucinich's Press Secretary, as you can clearly see from the following links: , .  As the article makes clear, that was only for the 2004 election,so of course he's not listed on the current website.  Also, he did write those books and they were published by an independent publisher, Context Books, which has subsequently gone out of business, which is why you couldn't find the books on sale with your search. That doesn't change the fact that he wrote them and they received major independent reviews of them like the following: . He's also had articles written about him in major newspapers like the following: Add to that his online blogging presence, including his involvement with the Leopold incident, and he's pretty notable. Maximusveritas 20:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete?

message: — JIP | Talk 14:20, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD result 

message: Would somebody who knows what hoax this is supposed to be, please enlighten us by modifying the article?  Thank you.  It is listed in "Jounralistic Hoaxes" but when you read the article, there is no soap, I mean, hoax.  71.169.167.204 05:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why a Hoax? 

message: Amended the final sentence in order to update it.  Will Pitt was permanently banned from Democratic Underground, and since the original entry listed him as an active member, it was no longer accurate.  Reference included was an explanation from one of the sites administrators.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.175.214.35 (talk) 22:47, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing Career 

message: well, is he?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.66.89 (talk) 23:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  is he related? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: It appears the subject has died of a heart attack, though I don't yet have a single RS, just something on his FB page and at a liberal community blog. I see an ip contributor has inserted a death date and was properly reverted as unsourced. Given the three previous unsuccessful AfDs on the subject, it is wise to source this if opportunity presents itself. I'll keep my eyes open. BusterD (talk) 08:48, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Even some members of the community blog are skeptical, as not even primary sources like Truthout have reported anything. If the death is true, a credible notice should be published in a few days. • Gene93k (talk) 09:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

text: (edit conflict) Reverter here.  If we looked at the same liberal community blog post, then that post also looked like it might have been deleted.  I didn't see the fb post, although I did a good faith look for sources.  It sounds likely that an obituary may appear in the coming days and weeks, or at least a brief death announcement posted by his publisher or some other institution he had been affiliated with. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 09:42, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

text: The tweet mentioned by the IP user is here .  A tweet by an institution like that might suffice as a source, at least temporarily; obviously it's not great sourcing.   what do you think?  IP editors: sourcing is important for Wikipedia, and it's better to run slightly behind events than to get things wrong.  For example, when John Conway died, it was a week or two before there was sourcing sufficient to add it to the page.  The relevant Wikipedia guideline is WP:NOTNEWS. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 16:32, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Truthout now has an editorial on their webpage eulogizing him, by their editor-in-chief.  I think that that suffices for the fact that he's passed recently, following WP:RSEDITORIAL.  I've added it to the article.  (Unfortunately, the source doesn't have the date of death or other details.)  IP users, others watching, Wikipedia has reasonably high sourcing standings, particularly for living and recently-deceased persons.  We can't use fb for much. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 21:49, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demise 

message: On Democratic underground on September 26, 2022, it was reported that Mr. Pitt has died.  His last twitter post reportedly said “I died”. J (talk) 16:56, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Democratic Underground referred back this Wikipedia article (WP:CIRCULAR) and to his friends' Facebook posts. Even some DU posters are asking for something more authoritative. • Gene93k (talk) 17:55, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death reported