Talk:Scott Horton (lawyer)

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[edit] Reasons for notability

• Contributing editor and writer for Harper's Magazine, the second-oldest magazine in the US.
• Notable human rights lawyer considered an expert in ongoing current events including Bilal Hussein[1], Blackwater[2], foreign events [3], US Attorneys [4], and Dick Cheney [5], and Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic Magzine said that "Scott Horton has as much integrity as anyone I know."[6]
• Adjunct professor at Columbia University.
• Numerous publications.
• Significant online presence, use of multiple sources in wiki article.

I didn't think that this would be contested at all, let alone within milliseconds...Athene cunicularia (talk) 00:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reliability of sources

Should sourcewatch be used as a source (specifically for the number of publications he's made)? WP:V says that wikis should be avoided. Andjam (talk) 10:50, 23 March 2008 (UTC)