Talk:Cassius Cook

Proposed deletion

There's a fair amount on him in Lever, Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy, pp. 35–37 ISBN 155420058X. This includes his involvement with companies promoting quack cures for syphilis which the author links to his anarchist views in a roundabout way. There are also a fair few mentions with additional factoids; this book names him as the central figure in the defence of Emma Goldman and this book mentions his Cook Remedy Company manufactured syphelene as well as passing mentions to his anarchist activities. SpinningSpark 10:26, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

How do you see us being able to write an article based on those sources? Leier's Rebel Life has some interesting albeit random detail, but in all, I don't see how this adds up to a full article beyond an assortment of facts/mentions. czar 21:04, 15 May 2022 (UTC)

"...assortment of facts..." – at least one source makes a connection between his anarchist activities and his quack medicine activities. His legal activities, at least those reported in sources, are likewise connected. So its not as if these are unconnected facts. But even if they were, it makes no difference to his notability because it makes no difference to how much about him is in sources. I might have a crack at this and see what it looks like, but I won't while there is a possibility that you are going to take it to AFD. I don't like wasting effort on articles under threat unless they are a slam-dunk keep, and this one is not. I prefer to wait until the threat is over. SpinningSpark 12:56, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Right now it's a grand total of one source so unless there is more depth elsewhere, the question of whether we can support a full article on the subject seems clear. Also where exactly does Leier connect Cook's anarchism and business? I think that's a stretch. Keep in context that Cook is only mentioned in Leier as an aside because his name was scribbled twice in a letter to another relatively unknown figure, Robert Gosden. It's not to say that Cook's biographic activity was itself noteworthy. czar 12:43, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

"Alternative therapies therefore especially appealed to those who had a more comprehensive critique of society, and Cook surely did." It is not just one source, I named three. Perhaps you mean that only one source has any great detail. SpinningSpark 16:16, 17 May 2022 (UTC)