Talk:Seth Andrews/Archive 2

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Archive 1

Archive 2

Thanks

Thanks for adopting our deleted article, Stacey and ZeroSerenity. We're ready to help when Andrews appears in more notable news sources to try again. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 15:34, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Its such a shame to see it deleted - Its so much better than some articles at least it has references! Some nominators avoid the unreferenced articles because they have to do some work before nominating it - this type of article are easy pickings. Once we get a couple of more "notable" sources we will re-launch it ツStacey (talk) 20:17, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Pity it was deleted. I'd be happy to help out getting this page back up. We really have to be able to show notable reliable sources or the "biography of living persons deletion warriors" will nominate it for deletion as soon as the article is recreated. Shabidoo | Talk 21:32, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

I hope it's OK to add this here. I was watching the Seth Andrews page and I'm sorry it was taken down, too. However, since he's going to be touring Australia with Matt Dillahunty and Aron Ra soon, do you think that will be enough to "put him on the map?" Megalibrarygirl (talk) 21:18, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

I have got few more links to add to the article and also add Seth's second book "Sacred cows". The links I want to add are:

Review of “Sacred cow” book in Skeptic (U.S. magazine): [1]
Another link is in Tulsa World online newspaper in advance of the Oklahoma Freethought Convention: [2]
This link is to the article on Heroes of humanism: [3]

Do you think it will be enough to publish the page? Mrs Kartoshka (talk) 11:52, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

That third one is likely to have issues. Also I formatted your comments to read better. Zero Serenity ^{(talk - contributions)} 11:56, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

I did some minor corrections. The second book does make him a lot more notable as an author; Deconverted was not just a one-off. I also linked to Apostacon, where he spoke several times. I think we can republish the page now, although not as a DYK this time. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 09:28, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

I was hoping that that would be enough too so I asked an uninvolved editor to have a look and he doesn't think its enough to save it from another deletion (The books are self-published). Hopefully the book with get some significant coverage in the near future. ツStacey (talk) 17:03, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

RP2006 12-29-16 update

I gathered more sources for future consideration and asked Susan to comment on them regarding helping with WP notoriety. Here they are for future reference. (Her comments are in bold.)

(1) A mention in an autobiographical deconversation article by Lala Stone. http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-i-went-being-southern-baptist-preachers-daughter-open-atheist
Material:
...Seth Andrews, author of Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason and founder of the Thinking Atheist website describes in his book how he began an in-depth study of the Bible after first questioning religion. In Numbers 31, Andrews read how God instructed Moses to "kill all the male Midianite children and kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.” He read how rape victims deserve a death sentence if they don't cry out for help. He also read about the numerous mass killings God commanded. When he brought all this to the attention of his Christian friends and family, he says that “[n]obody had satisfactory answers. Nobody joined my chorus of alarm bells. Nobody really cared.”

...Seth Andrews has a similar tale in his book Deconverted. He told his mother he was atheist and she was “obviously blinking away the unthinkable notion that her son's outright rejection of Yahweh would sentence him to a painful, fiery, eternal Hell.... She protested. She argued. She wept.”
Nope not a good source

(2) The Thinking Atheist Podcast entry on rationalwiki. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Thinking_Atheist#Seth_Andrews
Material:
Seth Andrews is the host and producer of the show. He is a former Christian radio broadcaster (explains the production quality being so absurdly good) and currently works in video production.[2] He lives somewhere outside Tulsa, Oklahoma and went to a private Christian school for most of his time. He eventually deconverted at the age of 37.[3]

Seth Andrews is not The Thinking Atheist and this needs repeating since people are still getting it wrong.
Rational Wiki for sure not a legit source

(3) Shift to Reason speaker list. http://www.shifttoreason.com/speakers.php
Material:
Seth Andrews is the host and producer of the show, The Thinking Atheist. He is a former Christian radio broadcaster (explains the production quality being so absurdly good) and currently works in video production. He lives somewhere outside Tulsa, Oklahoma and went to a private Christian school for most of his time. He eventually deconverted at the age of 37. He is also the author of the books Deconverted: A Journey From Religion To Reason and Sacred Cows available at http://www.sethandrews.net/
never heard of it, but it is just one of many interviews, not proving notoriety

(4) Friendly Atheist Podcast Episode 7: Seth Andrews. https://richarddawkins.net/2014/07/friendly-atheist-podcast-episode-7-seth-andrews-the-thinking-atheist/
Material:
Seth was not just a Christian for more than 30 years, he was a religious broadcaster and professional video producer as well. Since becoming an atheist, he has put those talents to use on his YouTube channel (if you haven’t seen his videos, go watch. They’re inspiring and beautiful). His podcast of the same name is currently the most popular show on Blog Talk Radio.

We spoke with Seth about his late-to-the-party deconversation, why listeners connect with him so well, and how Christian radio compares with secular podcasting.

(Podcast audio is behind pay wall.)
just one of many interviews, not proving notoriety, odd that this is behind a pay wall

(5) Living After Faith podcast episode (The Thinking Atheist: Deconverted – Episode 66). http://livingafterfaith.com/category/seth-andrews/
Material:
We speak with Seth Andrews, Host of The Thinking Atheist. His new book is out, and you can hear about it here.
never heard of it, but it is just one of many interviews, not proving notoriety

(6) Speaker announcement for Skepticon 6. https://skepticon.org/speaker/seth-andrews/
Material:
Head honcho over at The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews is the author of Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason, podcaster and fabricator of all the media things. Go to his twitter so you can tweet at him how psyched you are to see him this year! There may be just about a million Seth Andrews in the world (trust us, we googled it), but we like this one a whole lot. As a sidenote: Skepticon wants everyone to know we want Seth to read us stories at night because his voice is sweet, sweet velvety magic.
Skepticon is where speakers prove they are no longer relevant (watch they will ask me next year)

(7) Article on Seth's speech for UCO Skeptics and Oklahoma Atheists. (Christian-turned-atheist Seth Andrews gives heartfelt "deconversion" talk to UCO audience.) http://www.reddirtreport.com/red-dirt-news/christian-turned-atheist-seth-andrews-gives-heartfelt-deconversion-talk-uco-audience
Material:
(Entire article is about the presentation.)
just one of many interviews, not proving notoriety

(8) Second article on Seth's speech for UCO Skeptics and Oklahoma Atheists. (Tulsan Seth Andrews, host of "The Thinking Atheist," talks about his journey from faith to non-belief.) http://www.reddirtreport.com/red-dirt-news/tulsan-seth-andrews-host-thinking-atheist-talks-about-his-journey-faith-non-belief
Material:
(Entire article is about the presentation.)
just one of many interviews, not proving notoriety

(9) Skeptico podcast 183. (Join Skeptiko host Alex Tsakiris for an interview with The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews.) http://skeptiko.com/the-thinking-atheist-backs-down-from-science-debate/
Material:
Interview examines the scientific evidence underlying an atheist worldview and why atheists are reluctant to defend it.
This is the best so far if Tsakiris comes out against Seth, Tsakiris has a WP page himself and he is anything BUT a skeptic

(10) American Freethought Podcast #170 – Seth Andrews. http://www.americanfreethought.com/wordpress/2013/02/05/podcast-170-seth-andrews-the-thinking-atheist/
Material:
We interview Seth Andrews, host of The Thinking Atheist podcast and author of the new memoir Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason.
just one of many interviews, not proving notoriety

(11) Speaking announcement. (The Thinking Atheist, Part Deux: The Return of Seth Andrews.) http://www.charlotteatheists.org/news/the-thinking-atheist-part-deux-the-return-of-seth-andrews/
Material:
CAA is pleased to announce that we will be hosting Seth Andrews in the Queen City for the second time! On September 19th, he will be making a presentation regarding his latest book, “Sacred Cows.”
Same here, no name conference, no notoriety
RobP (talk) 21:05, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

SG Facebook comments on the above material:

Most of these could be used on a page if the page was already noteworthy. But nothing "proves" noteworthiness. I've talked to him personally about this and he doesn't seem to get it. He would like to have a WP page but isn't about doing to work to help us get it for him.

What he needs is for others to call him notable. By "others" they need to be notable. And it can't be on an interview with Seth.

For example if Seth gave a talk at a local venue and had the newspapers write about it then that would be good. It's like the local media is saying "Hey this guy is so notable that we are going to cover his lecture"

The difference is kinda hard to understand. Picture Wait Wait Don't tell me. And you have two people, one on the panel and one that is calling in to answer the questions.

The one calling in might be funny and clever and have been on the show. But it isn't like the show called them. They just happened to get through when calling in. IF the media afterwards looked up the person who called in and said "Hey you are funny, we want to do a story about you" then that would be much better. RobP (talk) 21:13, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for all your hard work RobP, I occasionally do a fresh search for anything new and I haven't found anything yet that would bring this over the line for notability. This article can stay in user space until we find enough. I notice that Russia and the Netherlands have WP pages for him; I will keep an eye on those too. ツStacey (talk) 13:47, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

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Staceydolxx. RobP ⋅ There isapparently now an article in mainspace, Seth Andrews, started by Whitehandnerdyon Jan 20, 2017, and worked on by RP2006 and most recently by Softlavender. In it aconsiderably improved version of this draftm and should be the basis for further discussion. The most pratical thing to dowithis draft is to label it so it gets deletedd--you might want to copy over this talk p. discussion first. DGG ( talk ) 08:55, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry but I do not understand this post. Could you make thinks clearer and give proper links or tell us exactly why we should read those links please? Shabidoo | Talk 16:17, 3 February 2017 (UTC)