Talk:Doug Wead/Archives/2014

Copyright status of videos

The section on his public speaking is sourced to a bunch of YouTube clips, over half of which are from Doug Wead's own channel. Beyond being yet more WP:PRIMARY crapola to have to sift through to establish WP:DUE weight, there's a more pressing problem. There is no indication that Wead actually has the rights to be redistributing these grainy copy-of-a-copy clips from ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC, etc.. The rest of the videos are from Sandy Frazier's channel. Frazier is Wead's publicist, and although the clips might be better quality, this still reeks of WP:ELNEVER copyright violations. These clips utterly fail to establish due weight, and are highly promotional, so even if the copyvio issues can be resolved, I don't feel like the article is improved by including them. I am removing the entire section. Any attempt to restore them should be discussed, and needs to deal with the copyvio issues first. Grayfell (talk) 22:07, 14 October 2014 (UTC)