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Texe Marrs

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Fails notability test. He is known as a critic of the Catholics and the Freemasons. The only sources that give any information about him, beyond just passing mentions, are blogs published by the two groups. If he was really notable other sources would have taken notice of him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BigJim707 (talk • contribs)

Delete: closest this topic comes to "significant coverage" is the NYT piece, which is primarily on taxpayer subsidisation of non-profit postage, secondarily on Marrs' newsletter as one of the more bizarre examples of this, and only tertiarily on Marrs himself. I would also suggest that the further out on the WP:FRINGE a person is, the more careful we should be that we have solid coverage, not just a few sensationalised and bizarre claims. Hrafn^Talk_Stalk(P) 04:14, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 04:32, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not notable. The NYT reporter obviously didn't take him seriously. But more questionable is the fact of him being called antisemitic being sourced to the two blogs mentioned. I think that is a problem with BLP policies, besides the general unnotability of the the guy. As the Times said everyone has a right to express their opinions and lots of people do. Borock (talk) 07:28, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, he's pretty well known in the conspiracy theory world. He hasn't had much news coverage lately but back in the '90s he was getting plenty of coverage, including in USA Today regarding his Oklahoma City conspiracy theory, Fort-Worth Star Telegraph, New York Times, Associated Press, and the Anchroage Daily News. To describe him as simply a critic of Catholics and Freemasons is incorrect: he's a very flexible conspiracy theorist. 81.23.57.177 (talk) 12:33, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment: I've added plenty more sources, giving plenty of opportunity for expansion of the article. 81.23.57.177 (talk) 15:59, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - As noted before, very notable amongst conspiracy theorists (who regularly cite him) and is fairly well known as a preacher. He's certainly as notable as David Icke for instance.--MacRusgail (talk) 17:57, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 Fails notability test. He is known as a critic of the Catholics and the Freemasons. The only sources that give any information about him, beyond just passing mentions, are blogs published by the two groups. If he was really notable other sources would have taken notice of him. <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:BigJim707|BigJim707]] ([[User talk:BigJim707|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/BigJim707|contribs]]) </span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned -->
-*'''Delete:''' closest this topic comes to "significant coverage" is the NYT piece, which is ''primarily'' on taxpayer subsidisation of non-profit postage, ''secondarily'' on Marrs' newsletter as one of the more bizarre examples of this, and only ''tertiarily'' on Marrs himself. I would also suggest that the further out on the [[WP:FRINGE]] a person is, the more careful we should be that we have solid coverage, not just a few sensationalised and bizarre claims. <font face="Antiqua, serif">''[[User:Hrafn|Hrafn]]<sup>[[User talk:Hrafn|Talk]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Hrafn|Stalk]]</sub><sup>''('''[[M:Precisionism|P]]''')</sup></font> 04:14, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
+*'''Delete:''' closest this topic comes to "significant coverage" is the NYT piece, which is ''primarily'' on taxpayer subsidisation of non-profit postage, ''secondarily'' on Marrs' newsletter as one of the more bizarre examples of this, and only ''tertiarily'' on Marrs himself. I would also suggest that the further out on the [[WP:FRINGE]] a person is, the more careful we should be that we have solid coverage, not <u>just a few sensationalised and bizarre claims</u>. <font face="Antiqua, serif">''[[User:Hrafn|Hrafn]]<sup>[[User talk:Hrafn|Talk]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Hrafn|Stalk]]</sub><sup>''('''[[M:Precisionism|P]]''')</sup></font> 04:14, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
 :<small class="delsort-notice">Note:  This debate has been included in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/People|list of People-related deletion discussions]]. <!--Template:Deletion sorting--></small> <small> —[[User:Tom Morris|Tom Morris]] ([[User talk:Tom Morris|talk]]) 04:32, 20 August 2011 (UTC)</small>