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This article is incredibly poorly sourced. Out of the 5 citations in the current version, [1] three of them are primary sources - two of Black's articles on post-leftism (cited in the infobox) and one on the Church of the SubGenius (cited for a brief sentence at the end of the biography). Another source is an interview with David Graeber, which doesn't have any issues.
I then looked at the remaining source, cited for information about Black's activities in the 1970s, listed as Uri Gordon, "Bob Black", in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Wiley-Blackwell 2009."
. I thought this might be a
reliable source that could help with improving the article's sourcing... but then I searched through the Encyclopedia and found no such article about Bob Black.
[2] There's also no such entry in the Encyclopedia's physical edition and I can't find anything about this on
WorldCat either. So it would appear that this "source" doesn't actually exist.
So in its current state, there is only one reliable source and it only contains a brief, passing mention to Black. The others are either Black's own work, or a source that doesn't even exist. This begs the question of how notable this article really is. I see that Czar ( talk · contribs) found a source on an altercation Black had with Jim Hogshire, but doesn't appear to be in the article.
Are there any reliable sources that we can use to flesh out this article properly? Because if not, this may be subject to deletion, due to its lack of reliable sources and notability issues, least of all as this is a biography of a living person. If anyone can find reliable sources, please bring them up here or add them to the article. But right now, this isn't looking good. -- Grnrchst ( talk) 21:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
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This article is incredibly poorly sourced. Out of the 5 citations in the current version, [1] three of them are primary sources - two of Black's articles on post-leftism (cited in the infobox) and one on the Church of the SubGenius (cited for a brief sentence at the end of the biography). Another source is an interview with David Graeber, which doesn't have any issues.
I then looked at the remaining source, cited for information about Black's activities in the 1970s, listed as Uri Gordon, "Bob Black", in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Wiley-Blackwell 2009."
. I thought this might be a
reliable source that could help with improving the article's sourcing... but then I searched through the Encyclopedia and found no such article about Bob Black.
[2] There's also no such entry in the Encyclopedia's physical edition and I can't find anything about this on
WorldCat either. So it would appear that this "source" doesn't actually exist.
So in its current state, there is only one reliable source and it only contains a brief, passing mention to Black. The others are either Black's own work, or a source that doesn't even exist. This begs the question of how notable this article really is. I see that Czar ( talk · contribs) found a source on an altercation Black had with Jim Hogshire, but doesn't appear to be in the article.
Are there any reliable sources that we can use to flesh out this article properly? Because if not, this may be subject to deletion, due to its lack of reliable sources and notability issues, least of all as this is a biography of a living person. If anyone can find reliable sources, please bring them up here or add them to the article. But right now, this isn't looking good. -- Grnrchst ( talk) 21:55, 17 January 2023 (UTC)