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In the past day there have been half a dozen new accounts whose first or second edit has been on this reasonably obscure article. Obviously, this page is being targeted in some form, and we should keep careful eye on the quality of edits. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 18:02, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I have noticed that, but assumed it was a result of my having marked it as underlinked - I have seen that with other articles. I have now removed the tag. Tacyarg (talk) 18:20, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I am about to remove large chunks of the article due to lack of proper sourcing. For the life and career sections, the entire sourcing was to geneology websites (a mixture of WP:BLPPRIMARY sources and user-generated content); to a database listings from a bookseller website, and to one of his publishers' websites. None of this qualifies as the sort of reliable, independent, secondary source that we are expected to build articles, particularly biographies of living people around. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 18:22, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Seems reasonable. Took some out myself yesterday, but it could do with an overhaul to see if there is actually any notability there. Tacyarg (talk) 19:21, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that the remaining sources talking about his books are largely not on-line, which makes it hard to see if they have much to say about the author (or, generally, co-author). I have not one a WP:BEFORE--type search to see if there was some of the sort of in-depth coverage we expect. --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:32, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I checked his official website to see if there was an About page that would give us usable non-controversial non-boastful information, but the only About regarding him is a quote from Wikipedia (including the strange claim "Robert L. Shook's books are available in your city.") -- Nat Gertler (talk) 19:52, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I did the same yesterday, largely because I thought some of the article might be a copy-paste of his website; no evidence of that on his current site, anyway. Tacyarg (talk) 21:22, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
