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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Left guide (talk) 02:11, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stuart Schuffman

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Non-notable former travel writer and current dive bar reviewer. Subject does not appear to pass notability, as subject does not fulfill WP:ANYBIO. Individual is verifiable in tertiary sources as a local figure, but for a WP:BLP individual does not appear notable. I have cleaned up the article, removed extensive sources attributable to subject's personal website and added reliable sources, toned down claims and promotional language. After this I've come to the conclusion that they are just not notable. Longstanding maintenece tags. Nayyn (talk) 01:28, 26 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The subject passes Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria, which says:

    People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.

    • If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability.
    Coverage in sources

    Sources

    1. Bastone, Nick (2022-09-23). ""Broke-Ass Stuart" celebrates 20 years in San Francisco". Axios. Archived from the original on 2022-09-23. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "Stuart Schuffman — better known to locals as "Broke-Ass Stuart" — is a self-described performer, activist and trouble-maker. But foremost, Schuffman told Axios in a recent interview, he's a writer. And for the past 20 years, he's lived in San Francisco and chronicled his adventures. ... Schuffman first arrived in San Francisco in the summer of 2002, for a summer internship with the entertainment group Bill Graham Presents, and living in a shared room on Haight Street with his friend Mani."

    2. Whiting, Sam (2024-07-28). "Broke-Ass Stuart counteracts 'doom loop' with pro-S.F. literary magazine". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2024-08-09. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "Broke-Ass Stuart got somebody else to pay for publication of his first literary magazine, and he got a third party to pay for the beer. All he had to do, in his role as editor-in-cheap, was stand at the entrance of Jack Kerouac Alley and absorb the credit from a crowd that overflowed the alley onto the sidewalk of City Lights Books and onto Columbus Avenue. ... Stuart, who has built a small industry out of his ability to survive on the cheap in one of the world's most expensive cities, had time for a side project because he is not running for mayor this time. The field is too crowded already, so he approached the Civic Joy Fund, a nonprofit arts and small business organization that is trying to drive economic recovery in the city."

    3. Gentile, Dan (2021-08-24). "San Francisco's eternally young, broke and beautiful media icon tells all: How Broke-Ass Stuart turned a zine into a career". SFGate. Archived from the original on 2024-08-15. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "The compliment was aimed at Stuart Schuffman, better known as the personality and primary voice behind the digital publication Broke-Ass Stuart. ... In the mid-aughts, he was just a guy who moved to S.F. after graduating from UC Santa Cruz’s American studies department. That degree scored him a sweet job working the counter at a candy shop, one of many odd jobs ranging from hat store clerk to librarian. When a customer gave him a business card that listed travel writer as their profession, Schuffman was inspired to start writing himself. The result was “Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco,” a 33-page zine which he distributed via “bus pass and shoes.” The zine made it into 30 retail shops, then evolved into an arts and culture blog in 2008, then a six-city travel show on IFC that aired in 2011, a stint writing for Lonely Planet, a long-running S.F. Examiner column that he recently shifted over to SF Weekly."

    4. Vaughan, Joel W. (Summer 2015). "Love Notes and Other Disasters". Broken Pencil. No. 68. p. 50. ProQuest 1700690458.

      The article notes: "Love Notes and Other Disasters Nonfiction/poetry zine, Broke-Ass Stuart, brokeasssstuart.com, $5. Broke-Ass Stuart begins this compendium of work with a stage-setting introduction: ... The zine is an ode to San Francisco in the same way Gatsby is an ode to New York, only Fitzgerald wasn't so concerned with making his reader think he was cool and writerly. Stuart is often clever, notably in "Living in San Francisco Means," and makes memorable commentary in "Rent Control in San Francisco is a Golden Handcuff," but mingles his insights with cringe-worthy self-affirmations"

    5. Roisman, Jon (2015-05-22). "Broke but happy hustler celebrates 2nd bar mitzvah". J. The Jewish News of Northern California. Archived from the original on 2023-05-28. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: " Stuart Schuffman is living on a shoestring in San Francisco - and you can too. He's happy to share the wealth of knowledge he's acquired on how to live frugally and yet still enjoy the Bay Area's thriving arts and entertainment scene. Just go to brokeassstuart.com. The 34-year-old initially launched his website to sell his creative magazines (or "zines") and T-shirts when he arrived in San Francisco in 2002. Since then, he's expanded his site to become an arts and culture destination, especially for millennials. ... Schuffman grew up in San Diego in "a kind of Jewish neighborhood," attended a Reform synagogue and had his bar mitzvah at the typical age of 13. ... He has published three travel books, had his own travel show ("Young, Broke and Beautiful") on IFC, and has written "for every rag in town." Schuffman claims more than 17,000 followers on Facebook and nearly 16,000 followers on Twitter."

    6. Caramanica, Jon (2011-06-24). "Finding the Offbeat Off the Beaten Path". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-06-26. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "Where Rhett and Link look upon their subjects with genuine affection and thinly veiled amusement, Stuart Schuffman views his with awe. His show “Young, Broke & Beautiful,” which follows “Commercial Kings,” is a travel show that skips the center for the fringes, taking him to the sorts of places that would give those Frommer’s guys the willies. (Mr. Schuffman has written a few frugal city guides of his own.) Every city has its oddball denizens, its dirty, screaming bands, its delicious greasy spoons known to only a select few. Mr. Schuffman addresses his cities through that lens. In the premiere he tackles San Diego, where he grew up, visiting a childhood friend who’s now a D.J., wiping out at a skate park and checking out the revolution-theme murals at Chicano Park."

    7. Abcarian, Robin (2015-10-30). "Not everyone in San Francisco loves the tech culture". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2025-07-27. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "Stuart Schuffman, aka Broke-Ass Stuart, is a blogger, author of books on living frugally, and self-promoter par excellence. He is explaining why he should replace the city’s incumbent mayor, Ed Lee, when voters go to the polls on Tuesday. ... Five underfunded candidates are challenging Lee. Schuffman, 34, is the best known of what must be considered, at best, a protest slate. His slogan on campaign posters that have popped up all over town: “Go for Broke.”Schuffman, whose previous elective experience was vice president of University City High School in San Diego, is a Democratic socialist who wants more affordable housing, more public toilets, higher taxes on developers, fewer tax breaks for tech companies and more civic engagement by the people benefiting economically from the tech boom."

    8. Barton, Chris (2011-07-17). "Overrated / Underrated". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2025-07-27. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "‘Young, Broke & Beautiful’ on IFC: Traveling on a budget is clearly the way to go these days, but as handy as some tips are by blogger-turned-TV-personality Stuart Schuffman, his show falls short on the payoff. A tireless self-promoter, Schuffman simply can’t stop repeating his unprintable catchphrase describing his mode of travel, and with predictable stops at tiki bars and steampunk gatherings, his tastes aren’t as edgy as he thinks."

    9. Dickey, Megan Rose (2024-07-24). "SF literary magazine seeks to counter "doom loop" narrative". Axios. Archived from the original on 2025-07-27. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "Stuart Schuffman, perhaps better known as Broke-Ass Stuart, has heard enough about the "doom loop," so he decided to counteract the narrative by leaning into San Francisco's "wonderful literary tradition," Schuffman told Axios."

    10. Kukura, Joe (2022-10-13). "Broke-Ass Stuart Celebrates 20 Years of Being 'Broke-Ass Stuart' In San Francisco". SFist. Archived from the original on 2025-07-27. Retrieved 2025-07-27.

      The article notes: "Local bon vivant Broke-Ass Stuart broke the mold with two decades of hustling as a travel writer, TV host, and mayoral candidate, and celebrates 20 years of his SF penny-pinching shenanigans with a Public Works party Thursday and a new zine. It was 20 years ago when a young San Diego lad fresh out of UC Santa Cruz named Stuart Schuffman arrived in San Francisco, and would slowly transform into the local celebrity persona known as Broke-Ass Stuart."

    There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Stuart Schuffman to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

    Cunard (talk) 23:28, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: It would be nice to get more opinions on the newly found sources. Maybe the nominator could review them as well.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 01:33, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I reviewed the sources when I did a WP:BEFORE and when I worked to improve the article. The individual may appear to fulfill WP:BASIC, but I still have the same sentiment about the article and its worthiness of inclusion in the encyclopedia. Individual still does not pass WP:ANYBIO, and Cunard is right, it doesn't need to, but there is no way this would have passed an AfC today. Nayyn (talk) 17:57, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 01:42, 9 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I'm new to all this so please excuse my ignorance. I have added some information below. Please take a look. Thank you! Flimbert (talk) 15:35, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – I believe this article meets WP:GNG because there is substantial, independent coverage from reliable sources spanning more than two decades, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, SF Weekly, San Francisco Examiner, SFGATE, Axios, and others.

A fully updated and fully sourced draft is available here for independent editors to review: User:Flimbert/sandbox. It includes significant additional coverage of my books, television work, web series, mayoral campaign, awards, and other projects. All statements in the sandbox version are backed by reliable, independent sources.

I have a conflict of interest as the subject of the article, so I have not edited the live page directly. I have submitted the updated draft to the article’s Talk page for consideration.

Flimbert (talk) 17:27, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] 

Flimbert (talk) 17:03, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
Flimbert (talk) 16:58, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Fade258 (talk) 13:54, 16 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Source assessment table prepared by User:BriefEdits
Source Independent? Reliable? Significant coverage? Count source toward GNG?
"For Schuffman, whose Broke-Ass Stuart column has run in the Examiner since 2015," Yes Yes ? Unknown
Yes Yes NY Times It's more about the show than him. ? Unknown
Yes Yes The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate Yes ✔ Yes
Yes Yes Boston Globe It's more about the show than him. ? Unknown
Yes I've never heard of this publication before. No Interview ✘ No
Yes Yes SF Chronicle No WP:MILL election coverage ✘ No
Yes Yes Local blog. Probably notable. Yes ✔ Yes
Yes Yes SF Chronicle Yes ✔ Yes
"...occasional SFGATE contributor Stuart Schuffman" Yes SFGate Yes ? Unknown
This table may not be a final or consensus view; it may summarize developing consensus, or reflect assessments of a single editor. Created using {{source assess table}}.
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