Talk:The Minimalists
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Valereee in topic Where's the notability?
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Work Needed
editI will continue to work on the article as I can (currently deployed), but request assistance from others.
- Needs more secondary sources establishing notability
- Needs more biographical data about the subjects
- More information on accomplishments (with references)
Once it is brought up to notability and WP:BLP guidelines please remove cleanup tag. Chris Moore (talk) 21:54, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
Future Merge
edit- Planning on merging two WP:BIO articles I was working on for Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn with this article. Most of the information available covers both authors and the pages are very redundant at this point (co-authored books, shared interviews, tour together, etc). This would make for a stronger, single article instead of three start-class articles that share a lot of the same information. Please feel free to help me with this!!! Chris Moore (talk) 12:47, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
- Complete. Still need to finalize redirect from Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus and talk page tags once those pages are out of AfC. Chris Moore (talk) 11:16, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
Where's the notability?
editEvery source except the one in the Dayton City Paper and the Missoulian are to themselves. The WSJ source is a bare mention. Are these folks even notable? --valereee (talk) 12:04, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- On further investigation, it appears that literally the entire support for these folks' notability is in the 'Further reading' section. This article needs to be completely rewritten using the first four sources (the LA source is a blog containing an interview, you can't even tell which person is being quoted.) All the self-sourcing needs to go away or be used only for noncontroversial facts. --valereee (talk) 12:48, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- I've stripped the article of all the self-sourced stuff. There's plenty to use in the further reading section; I may be back but truly this isn't a topic I care about deeply so it may be a while. Anyone else who's interested, have at it. --valereee (talk) 13:15, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
Here are several additional sources for filling out this article: