Draft talk:Ed Winters

Notability

Evidence in cited sources: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] ~Kvng (talk) 19:57, 24 July 2019 (UTC)

Most of those sources are not reliable. The Daily Mail? veganfoodandliving.com? Psychologist Guy (talk) 19:20, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Unreliable sources

The sources on the article are self-published or unreliable. I will go through them here.

• "He is recognised as a figurehead in the vegan movement, with his university lecture "You Will Never Look at Your Life in the Same Way Again"[1] being viewed over 33 million times online". This is sourced to his own YouTube video which is self-published and fails WP:RS. [6]

• https://earthlinged.org/ is a self-published / promotional website owned by Ed Winters.

• "Being viewed over 33 million times online" - A Facebook source is given here as a reference. [7], this is not reliable.

• "He gave two TEDx talks in early 2019", this is sourced to plantbasednews [8], unlikely to pass WP:RS

• "And taught classes on the ethics of using animals as commodities at Harvard University", this is sourced to a vegan website vegannews.co. This fails WP:RS and the link is dead [9]

• "Winters started his YouTube channel in 2016, alongside co-founding the animal rights organisation Surge with his partner". Sourced to veganfoodandliving.com a vegan website [10], fails WP:RS

• "He specifically focuses on education as means in which to advocate, with a focus on philosophical and ethical arguments regarding accepting animals into "our circle of moral consideration." Self published source is given... a YouTube video [11].

• "His online teachings are based on effective communication and positive community building. In 2016 through Surge Winters co-founded The Official Animal Rights March" - Sourced to Metro (British newspaper). [12]. This is a tabloid newspaper. I am not entirely opposed to using these but they are not always reliable.

• "which succeeded in a growth from 2,500 participants in London in 2016 to 28,000 participants across the world in 2018" looks like original research but even if it isn't the source is https://www.theofficialanimalrightsmarch.org/ and that does not match the claim. On that link I cannot find that information. The website fails WP:RS

• "In September 2018 he opened an entirely non-profit vegan restaurant in London called Unity Diner.[16]" This is sourced to vegnews.com [13], obviously not a neutral source like most of the others and fails WP:RS

• "His campaigning through Surge has resulted in a 100% fur-free catwalk at London Fashion Week" This is sourced to a broken link [14] but the website https://www.surgeactivism.org is owned by Ed Winters so this is a primary source.

• Winters is based in London. He turned vegetarian in May 2014 after coming across a news article about a chicken truck crashing near Manchester. Upon reading that many of the birds had died, he "realised that all animals had the capacity to suffer", something that he had never considered before This is sourced to an interview with Winters at the Vegan Society website. [15] Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:07, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Psychologist Guy (talk) 19:15, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Consensus to delete this article in 2018

There was a previous vote to delete this article [16] because the article was self-promotional. Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:23, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Original research added

These 3 sources were added to the article in this edit [17].

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2018/sep/07/london-fashion-week-vows-to-be-fur-free https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-45446028 https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/london-fashion-week-to-go-fur-free

Ed Winters name does not appear on any of the above links nor does his animal rights organisation surge. This is original research, because neither his name or his group is listed anywhere on these articles they should be removed. Psychologist Guy (talk) 13:16, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi Psychologist Guy. These sources do not have Ed Winter's name but have the fact that LFW went fur-free. The earlier sentence claimed that the London Fashion Week went fur-free because of Ed Winter's efforts, and I found no sources directly claiming so. However, I found a source where Ed Winters was fighting for fur-free LFW ([18]). And these three later sources ([19][20][21]) say the LFW went fur-free in 2018. Hence I changed the sentence as "This eventually resulted in a 100% fur-free catwalk at LFW". Perhaps, should it be "The LFW eventually went 100% fur-free catwalk in 2018"? Thanks. Rasnaboy (talk) 14:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Psychologist Guy. Am changing the sentence to "The London Fashion Week eventually went fur-free in 2018" retaining the Guardian and BBC sources. Please check if this fine. Please feel free to revert if they aren't relevant. Thanks. Rasnaboy (talk) 14:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I can see your line of reasoning but I prefer on biographies to only use sources that specifically mention the subject's name otherwise we run into the risk of original research. Those sources do not mention Winters by name but I won't revert your edits, other users may approve or disapprove. I guess we will have to see what happens with the afd. Psychologist Guy (talk) 16:32, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Sure. Haven't decided yet whether to nominate this for deletion or not. I'm currently trying to improve this as much as I can. If I still find this article unsatisfactory after that, will nominate. Thanks. Rasnaboy (talk) 17:00, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

It's already been submitted for deletion and the article was deleted in 2018. It was re-created in 2019. It was re-submitted for deletion yesterday. The discussion is here. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:14, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I noticed you added PlantBasedNews.org and VeganLife Magazine and other vegan websites. The problem is that these are not reliable sources. Do you think these sort of sources are reliable? We need to find sources independent of the subject. Using vegan sources is not neutral. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:28, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Oh. Thanks for noticing. Maybe I agree with PlantBasedNews. However, VeganLife Magazine is a published magazine, if I'm not wrong. Can we not include any fact given in it about the activist (like his giving TEDx talk, opening a restaurant, or any other details about him), till we find another source? Not sure. I'll take your advice on this. Rasnaboy (talk) 17:54, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

The Guardian

This was added to the article [22]

"The Guardian investigated Winters' assertions and other similar ones made by vegans on social media and concluded that "the claims are also partly true. Though the links they draw are too simplistic, the evidence is now strong that the way meat is produced – and not just in China – contributed to Covid-19". - The problem is that the Guardian does not mention Winters by name. They merely link to the USA Today link. The Guardian piece is not about Winters. Can we really use that source to claim they "investigated Winter's assertions" ? [23]. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:20, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Given that the Guardian article links directly to the original by USA Today where Winters is referred to by name, and the Guardian's reference to the claims as "partly true" is a direct ripost in this context to them censoring Winters' instagram post as "partly false", it is certainly more than relevant here. 81.103.37.86 (talk) 17:40, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Yes it cross links another website that mentions Winters but it does not directly mention him by name and what you have done is quote a single line out of an entire article. I understand you want to establish notability but none of these independent sources specifically mention Winters in any detail. I am concerned that a number of references being used on this article do not mention Winters by name and we run into the trap of WP:OR. Rasnaboy has re-inserted several sources that do not mention Winters. I do not think we should be doing that. Psychologist Guy (talk) 17:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

If you can think of a way to fine-tune the wording a little to avoid the impression that the intention of the Guardian article was solely to vindicate Winters, I see no problem with that. But you can't pretend their coverage isn't highly relevant and worthy of inclusion here. 81.103.37.86 (talk) 17:58, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

No I agree with you it is relevant and I won't remove it. I just find it odd that we have sources like this which are actually reliable but for some reason they are not mentioning Winters by name. On the afd another user found a source which mentions the Unity Diner restaurant but it does not mention Winters by name either. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:38, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

I note they talk in the plural, as if Winters was not the only (and possibility not the main) source for this stuff. To paraphrase Rowan Atkinson "if they had meant it to be about Winters they would have put his name in it".Slatersteven (talk) 11:22, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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