Talk:Éric Toussaint

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Delete?

Unless someone has objections, I'll probably go ahead and try to delete this article as non-notable early next year. While he's published a lot of opinion pieces, I can't find any reliable non-trivial secondary sources about Toussaint as we would need for a neutral article.

To paraphrase my understanding of WP:BIO, he must meet at least one of these five criteria to have a biography here:

The person has received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject
The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times
The person has made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field
The person has an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography or similar publication
The person has unusually prestigious academic credentials meeting WP:PROF

If someone has evidence he meets one of these five criteria or otherwise qualifies for WP:BIO, please post to this thread. Rolf H Nelson (talk) 01:16, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

hi, Rolf H Nelson (talk) isn't this paragraph of the article about at least 2 of these five? (I'll copypaste: Toussaint took part in Ecuador’s Debt Audit Commission (Comisión para la Auditoria Integral de la Deuda Pública -CAIC), created by the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, that sat in 2007.[7] In the same year he advised the President and the Minister of Finance of Ecuador on the creation of a "Bank of the South".[8] The following year he was consulted as an expert on the same matter by the UN. Also in 2008 the Paraguayan President, Fernando Lugo, called on his experience to launch a debt audit for Paraguay.[9][10] In 2008 he also advised the Venezuelan Minister for Economic Development and Planning.[11]

In September 2010 Toussaint spoke in New York at a UN Special Assembly to assess progress on the Millennium Development Goals.[12]

And, I just googled him + Clarin (a center-right wing newspaper, and the most important of Argentina) and it appears several times (https://www.google.com.ar/search?client=firefox-b&dcr=0&ei=xLW6WuWmM4ObwQTfuIqQCQ&q=%C3%89ric+Toussaint+clarin&oq=%C3%89ric+Toussaint+clarin&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.750.2188.0.2632.7.7.0.0.0.0.206.902.3j2j2.7.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.7.902...0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1.0.WSSwgJhTZmQ). I didn't a more deep research, and I'm not really aware of his job; but at least a couple of these 5 criteris seems covered.