Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Saunders (skeptic)

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The result was keep‎. Spartaz ^Humbug! 07:00, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Richard Saunders (skeptic)

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I have started to do some copyedits or trimming of promotional material on this page, but looking further I'm struggling to find independent, third-party references on this individual. Most of the sceptical publications used in this article seem to have links to him in some way and are not independent, and the others seem to mention in passing. GnocchiFan (talk) 14:40, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Australia. Shellwood (talk) 16:25, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

  Delete Non-notable media personality. Appears in the ABC piece, as an "expert" in xyz field. Nothing beyond that for notability here in wiki. Oaktree b (talk) 16:58, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

  Keep now that it's shored up some. I added a dozen solid mentions from traditional media, going through ProQuest, added those to the article with useful bits of text. Turns out the Power Balance article talks about him (he contributed to the company going bankrupt), so I migrated that content too. I think it's a keeper now. But yes, it definitely needed trimming and better sources. Robincantin (talk) 00:03, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

  @Robincantin: Thank you for editing the article, it's definitely an improvement! If you can find any reliable sources regarding content I have deleted from the article, I would not object to that being re-added to the article. GnocchiFan (talk) 13:34, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

• Keep meets WP:GNG easily with all references already on the page. Plenty can be added from Scholar and Books. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 00:35, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

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