Paul Skallas
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Non notable per WP:NAUTHOUR - books are self published and coverage is minimal, and not independent. Page was created following coverage of the subject and his lifestyle teaching in several notable papers including New York Times, The independent and The Spectator. However, reading the articles shows the same text. For instance "Paul Skallas, a 36-year-old technology lawyer and writer, has today picked up antiquity’s torch. He’s an evangelist for wisdom derived from the distant past: like, say, skip the mouthwash." is in both New York Times and Independent. Possibly also in the Spectator but it is paywalled. The coverage is therefore clearly written off a press release, and as such fails in the Independent test and cannot be used for GNG. Thus there is no significant independent coverage in reliable secondary sources and subject fails WP:GNG as well as WP:NAUTHOR Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 11:12, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 11:12, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
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- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 11:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. I have access to the Spectator. Only two sentences are about Skallas, not SIGCOV. The NYT and Independent pieces with identical text were written by the same guy (self-plagiarism). Splice is non-RS, and Protocol (which I'm familiar with) can be so-so. Several writers have shown screenshot evidence of repeated plagiarism by Skallas. Given that these pieces all focus on his online writings, you'd think that a piece of in-depth, neutral coverage would mention that. But none of them do, except Protocol, which does so in passing (and frames it as an "accusation" without evaluating its merits, despite the evidence being public). Regardless of what we think of the general reliability of the sources, these specific sources aren't sufficient to write a proper, neutral, non-puff piece article (WP:RSCONTEXT). We shouldn't apply WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV too mechanistically. Sometimes, coverage can be superficial (non-SIGCOV) regardless of word count. DFlhb (talk) 13:18, 6 August 2023 (UTC)