Draft talk:J.J. McCullough

'Openly gay'

No comment on the notability or otherwise of this individual, but describing someone from Canada as 'openly gay' in 2023 seems rather anachronistic, if not just silly. He's gay. Lots of people are. As a normal part of living a normal life, in a society that (on the whole) considers it normal. Or at least normal-ish. If there is any evidence that McCullough gayness is significantly more 'open' than that of anyone else, tell us why. Or just describe him as gay. If it actually matters at all, which is perhaps questionable. AndyTheGrump (talk) 14:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

done 90.252.43.35 (talk) 15:06, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Sources

Anyone know which sources are good and bad in this draft 90.252.43.35 (talk) 15:07, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

I've gone through the cited sources. Although most appear to be reliable for support of factual information, I don't think any of them support general notability. Schazjmd (talk) 15:16, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

@Schazjmd I thought the CTV news, CBC, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, https://openparliament.ca, and Vice News would have been ok 90.252.43.35 (talk) 15:55, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

• CTV News consists of a few quotes from McC, among other content creator quotes, about a bill = not significant coverage of McC
• CBC #1, again a few quotes from McC = not coverage of McC
• CBC #2 consists almost entirely of quotes from McC
• Montreal Gazette is about criticisms of a column he wrote
• Toronto Star is about Quebec government denouncing the column he wrote
• OpenParliament is his statement
• Vice News is an editorial lambasting the column he wrote.

Schazjmd (talk) 16:11, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

@Schazjmd Okay. Do you know of any good sources online? 90.252.43.35 (talk) 16:50, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, I haven't found any independent reliable sources that provide significant coverage of McCullough. Schazjmd (talk) 16:57, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

• As I noted in the comment that accompanied my review, we're not looking for sources in which he's doing the speaking, whether about himself or something else — we're looking for sources in which he is the subject that is being spoken about in an analytical manner by other people. So you can't use interviews with J.J. McCullough as support for notability — you have to use sources in which he's being written about in the third person by somebody other than himself. But the only sources you've used which meet that standard are all covering him in the context of a single incident of controversy, thus making him just a WP:BLP1E, and not the subject of sufficiently significant or sustained coverage to pass WP:GNG, if that's all that can be found. Bearcat (talk) 17:44, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration Encyclopedia

Per these edit summaries, [1] I think we need to discuss the source at WP:RSN, since it appears to me to be self published and the work of a single individual. I'll start a discussion there later. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:53, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Kindly link me if you start said discussion as I would be curious to read what WP:RSN has to say. - Count3D (talk) 22:00, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

Incidentally, the source cited wouldn't fully support the text it was being cited for, even if accepted as WP:RS. It says that McCullough "graduated from Simon Fraser University" but makes no mention of "a degree in political science and history", or similar. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:24, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Notability assessment

Please refer to Wikipedia:Source assessment/J.J. McCullough for assessment of GNG sources for this article.

Keep in mind that, although most of the references have been ruled out as not helping, there are still many blanks to fill in at this time. – MrPersonHumanGuy (talk) 21:09, 19 February 2024 (UTC)