Talk:Jonathan Kay

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It is hard to believe that this well read columnist, author of two books, did not have a Wikipedia page. Must have something to do with being Canadian. Anywho, its done now. Emmanuelm (talk) 03:30, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Just writing a couple of books doesn't in itself make you notable enough for a Wikipedia entry. I am tagging for notability (biographies). Itsmejudith (talk) 14:56, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Besides writing "just a couple of books", he is also a columnist and editor in the second largest Canadian daily for the past 10 years. From

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"Scientists, academics, economists, professors, authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, engineers, and other creative professionals: (...) 3. The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." Therefore Kay is i) a published author, ii) editor, iii)journalist, and iv) the subject of two published commentaries (cited in the article), therefore fulfilling four criteria for notability. I left out the numerous mentions in blogs; just Google him.

Finally Judith, I want to thank you for fact-checking my WP contributions. Every single one of them. I feel spoiled. Emmanuelm (talk) 13:46, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

OK, he may be notable. I haven't been stalking you, if that's what you imply, just following up links in articles. You cited an article by Kay and internally linked to his bio, and as you know I am checking quality of refs. My view is now that he is a notable commentator but the article cited is op-ed, not news, and of dubious value to the other article. But that is just one of very many problems with that article. By the way you are not meant to remove a notability tag unilaterally. Bot-generated is only because the bot dates the tags. Itsmejudith (talk) 14:15, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Kay's full name is "Jonathan Hillel Kay", as shown by the picture he uses on his Facebook profile at https://www.facebook.com/jonkay88 (which shows part of his passport). Thanks go to Vale of Glamorgan for finding this. Cheers, CWC 02:02, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not needed, and invades privacy. Spoonkymonkey (talk)

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Obviously the information contained within the lead should be in the body of the article, but that's not what I'm currently focusing on cleaning up (someone else can take that up now if they like). But, what I want to address, is whether it's appropriate to use random articles as sources within publications to indicate that he's written for the publication. In my mind, this should be some kind of author bio page that's linked to via bylines or at least an index of their writing at the publication. What's the best practice here? Sincerely, Shashi Sushila Murray, (message me) 06:51, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The answer seems self-evident. Spoonkymonkey (talk) 17:23, 20 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]