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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jade Alexis

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Article was brought to AfD in 2001, which closed with no consensus. Since then, little has been done to address concerns that article does not satisfy

WP:GNG Subject does not seem notable and has not been the subject of multiple third-party RS. PaintedCarpet (talk) 23:58, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 12:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kathryn Xian

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Naked advertising. Subject fails

POLITICIAN. Article was previously deleted per G-11 but has reappeared in substantially the same form and wording. Ad Orientem (talk) 21:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Kathryn Xian an accomplished human rights activist in Hawaii. The fact that she is running for Congress doesn't diminish her human rights contributions. Obviously, not all Wiki articles created for people who decide to run for office are automatically "naked advertising." In fact, this article significantly and deliberately downplays Xian's congressional run in order to remain non-commercial. Her congressional run and the fact that she's the first openly gay person to run for Congress from Hawai'i are notable historical facts, in my view. If you see things differently, please explain why. Thanks! Fracpol (talk) 01:03, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Please see
WP:POL. The community has consistently set a high bar for articles about unelected persons seeking public office. Further this article is one of the more brazen campaign adds masquerading as an encyclopedic article that I have seen on Wikipedia. It has already been speedy deleted once. The only reason I sent it here instead of another G-11 CSD is so we can get a more definitive ruling that will hopefully make it a bit more difficult to recreate. Of course if Ms. Xian wins the election she would then satisfy the criteria for inclusion. Best regards -Ad Orientem (talk) 03:52, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • According to the relatively few sources I can find about her thus far, she isn't even a formal candidate for Congress yet — as of yesterday, she was still just a candidate in the party primary to become the party's candidate in the congressional election. Being on the ballot in the general election wouldn't, in and of itself, be sufficient basis to deem her as having passed
    WP:POLITICIAN — and being a candidate in a primary is even weaker as a claim of notability. And while her activism as described in the article is certainly admirable, it's all pretty local in nature and import, and would not be sufficient to qualify her for a Wikipedia article by itself, either. She'll qualify for an article if she wins the election in November, certainly — but there isn't sufficiently strong evidence of notability here as things currently stand. Delete, without prejudice against recreation in November if she wins. Bearcat (talk) 00:58, 27 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete It's nice that she is an activist for worthy causes, but our standard for inclusion here is
    significant coverage about her from independent reliable sources. She is mentioned here and there by local news media (primarily by alternative media, rather than mainstream media like the TV stations and the Star-Advertiser). She is such a long shot in that seven-person primary race that pollsters don't even include her name when they take a poll.[1] At this time she is simply not notable as Wikipedia defines it. --MelanieN (talk) 21:29, 28 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Question Is this Xian the director referred to [2], [3] She appears to be so. [4]. There's a very small but non-zero number of references to it at paywalled journal articles. The article may need work, but I'd imagine those sources, plus the ones already in the article, meet
    WP:BASIC, and unless someone wants to dispute that this is the same Xian, I'd suggest keep. --j⚛e deckertalk 20:25, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Actually she needs to win the general election to merit an article under
    POLITICIAN. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:34, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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More evidence for deletion, everything I find show her as a mid-level manager of a few non-notable charities. ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ 話 ♪ ߷ ♀ 投稿 ♀ 00:44, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Drive assist

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Inadequately sourced article about unreleased software. Fails

WP:NSOFTWARE. - MrX 23:01, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher Bishop (politician)

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Fails

WP:POLITICIAN as is only a candidate for election and not an elected politician. Mattlore (talk) 21:39, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nottingham University Handball Club

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A British University sports team which fails all notability tests and so fails

WP:ORG. The article has been around since 2006 but has failed to attract a single external reference.  Velella  Velella Talk   21:36, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete definitely non notable Atlas-maker (talk) 08:59, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak keep It's apparently England's oldest university handball club and has received coverage in the papers but I suspect I'm plucking at straws here. As university handball clubs in the UK go, they are notable but that's about it. Longwayround (talk) 12:29, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Actually, delete: that the club's championship victory from 2013 appears not to have been reported suggests to me they're just not notable. Longwayround (talk) 12:35, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. University clubs in the UK are almost never notable, this one is no exception. Szzuk (talk) 19:54, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- an amateur sports club for students. Clearly NN. Peterkingiron (talk) 20:11, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Another student sports club. RomanSpa (talk) 03:52, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Withdrawn by nominator, no other arguments for deletion. — Gwalla | Talk 17:32, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Miklós Malek (musician)

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This article is a bit like my cat - looks fat, but once the fluff has been combed out the real bag of bones shows itself. Nothing indicates notability, and I dispute some of its factual accuracy - "Miklos' work has been featured on over 15 million records" is an impossibility! Launchballer 20:56, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strong keep Nom: It best to keep to the facts. As he has written alot of songs, it is very possible his songs have been on albums that have sold over 15 million. Malek co-composed five songs on
WP:COMPOSER. As Malek is Hungarian and works in Hungary, there are alot of refs in Hungarian. [8], [9], [10] and [11]. Malek passes GNG. Bgwhite (talk) 22:17, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Which criterion of
WP:GNG.--Launchballer 22:51, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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"Has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a notable composition." Co-wrote 5 of the first 6 songs, including the song Truth of Touch, that was on the #1 album of the year, #10 album the following and sold 7 million copies. The composition is the album, the album is notable, thus Malek is notable. Same as Grammy's... Win album of the year and every songwriter on the album has won a Grammy. Bgwhite (talk) 07:22, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Album tracks are not notable compositions in my opinion, but rules are rules - withdrawn.--Launchballer 09:45, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Strong keep: A notable artist in music composition and in films. The fact that he was a judge in X Faktor, a greatly followed programme in Hungary as a clear proof of notability. Now article well sourced both in English and Hungarian articles. werldwayd (talk) 15:09, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was redirect to Janelle (given names). j⚛e deckertalk 04:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Janell

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Seems redundant to Janelle (given names). The link to "Gang Gets Racist" doesn't meet DABMENTION. Taylor Trescott - my talk + my edits 19:54, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:07, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

VCR (Tyler, the Creator song)

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The song fails

WP:NSONGS, has not charted or been covered significantly in reliable sources. Redirect to mixtape was challenged by article creator. STATic message me! 18:33, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Delete Per nominator, fails
WP:NSONGS. 2Flows (talk) 18:40, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Delete as there is not enough reliable third-party coverage to expand this beyond a stub. Salt if necessary.
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:08, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

CreateDebate

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Fails

WP:USERGENERATED). The only valid source in the References section seems to be the Mashable article; the other two were a blogpost and a post which mentions the site as a part of their monthly 'startup review'. The site has won a well-known award, but it is not independent. Kayau (talk · contribs) 18:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete Reliable sources are hard to find about this website. First of all, most of the sources are "startup reviews", some of which are broken links. Also, the article tries to
    WP:MASK its lack of notability by adding whole paragraphs on the site's functionality with primary references. Jh1234l (talk) 23:22, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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I added archive copies to the broken links, if you want to check them now. I don't think it will change your opinion, however. Agyle (talk) 18:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Did not find significant coverage in reliable sources. There is a 2008 Mashable article that's a critique of the site when it began, and a 2008 Gawker article with about a paragraph about its launch. Note that a press release was issued around that time as well, so don't confuse repetition of that with independent coverage. The site was launched from a class at the University of Maryland, and apparently shared a monthly prize, detailed here, but this does not establish notability the way a well-known award would (i.e. in the
    WP:WEB criteria). Tip for googling for information about the site: search for createdebate -"create debate", so you don't get articles with the words separated. Agyle (talk) 18:59, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. without prejudice to future creation of a new article on Legal status of Chinese people in America j⚛e deckertalk 03:56, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Legal history of Chinese Americans

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This article has been troubled with various issues from its creation date, some of which has been mentioned on the article talk page. The creator and affiliated people of said user have abandoned resolving the issues. There's no clear scope and most of its content is unsuitable if one can call it content. The article history has been riddled with copyright violations from its creation and from its recreation. The remnants should be treated carefully in that regards too, close paraphrasing and such. In conclusion, it would be best to delete this article rather than try to go the lengthy and cumbersome way to fix this (there was two plus years for that). If someone decides to recreate this article, I doubt any current content would be salvaged anyway than to start afresh. Besides, there's no point in saving an article history filled with copyright violations. Cold Season (talk) 17:51, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The author pledged to recreate it properly, only too abandon it in this state... The article is a remnant of something comprising a chronological overview, with the most-blatant issues cleansed, thus the listing in its stead (it gives an idea at how much needed to be removed). People have wasted too much time to salvage it, but feel free to do your attempt for this keep or merge (and prove me wrong, I doubt it; it's more likely that an attempt would focus on starting over). The topic is worth having, this content is not. --Cold Season (talk) 20:38, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:08, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Vertabelo

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This was deleted by a

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  • Delete software article of unclear notability, lacking independent references. A search did not turn up any significant coverage in reliable sources. Article was created by an SPA as possibly promotional.Dialectric (talk) 02:00, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: no significant coverage in independent reliable sources. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 13:45, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The reason for delation was lack of external sources. The third party sources have just been added to the article. The external sources come from reliable webpages (eg. PostgreSQL). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owsql (talk • contribs) 11:12, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • You might have misunderstood the deletion rationale: there should be significant coverage in independent reliable sources. The profile page at Postgress' web site is neither reliable (self-published), nor independent. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 12:10, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Delete the disambiguation, speedy close without a result on the rest procedurally. I'm uncomfortable expanding the scope of this discussion to the subarticles without hem being tagged individually or having appeared in the nomination, no prejudice against immediately nominating those articles (bundled or not) or PROD'd them as editors feel appropriate. --j⚛e deckertalk 17:21, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Netguide (disambiguation)

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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:09, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Christina Dagher

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Poorly sourced biography by an apparent

WP:ANYBIO. - MrX 18:15, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Cerebro (software)

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Does not appear to meet any notability guidelines. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:22, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete: indeed does not. I can't believe it survived previous nomination with such references. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 13:43, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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    software notability. References are a mix of self published sources and blogs. Nvidia ref has a mention of Cerebro.  Philg88 ♦talk 12:11, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:09, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

BugTracker.NET

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Does not appear to meet any notability guidelines. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:22, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete: per nom. Essentially no coverage. One blog mentions that it used it was used in a project. Fails
    WP:GNG and software notability, see essay Wikipedia:Notability (software). Wikipedia article in existence since January 2008. --Bejnar (talk) 02:39, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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IssueNet

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Does not appear to meet any notability guidelines. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:21, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete software article of unclear notability, lacking significant RS coverage. Refs provided are all press releases or incidental mentions/minor awards; the Triangle Business Journal ref is a possible exception, but at one brief paragraph, which does not even mention 'IssueNet', does not establish notability.Dialectric (talk) 12:40, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. slakr\ talk / 04:05, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Gemini (issue tracking system)

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Does not appear to meet any notability guidelines. Walter Görlitz (talk) 16:20, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Delete software article of unclear notability, lacking significant RS coverage. Refs provided are download sites, developers' sites, PR, and an incidental mention/minor award. The SD Times and Visual Studio Magazine external links look like articles but are press releases for a product embellished with a few quotes from the CEO. The company Countersoft also appears non-notable. Dialectric (talk) 04:45, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The use who has requested this deletion is an active contributor on a competitor product, Jira. I urge you to reconsider this request! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.223.101 (talk) 08:01, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • That says nothing about notability of this product. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 09:51, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sorry. I'm not currently a user of JIRA, but I have used it, Bugzilla, Mantis and FogBugz. As Dmitrij D. Czarkoff stated, what I use does not affect the
      notability of this product in any way. I looked at the article and didn't find any sources to support notability. I then ran a Google search and didn't find any either. All I could find is a book: ASIN: B007MWRLOW Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:01, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
      ]
  • Keep Gemini is a generic term therefore it was hard to find references, I've found this: PDF which is a whitepaper about Gemini in an Educational institute. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JudeDread (talk • contribs) 11:27, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • — JudeDread (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • Appears to be anonymous and
      self-published, which does not convince about reliability. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 12:33, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
      ]
      • Sorry are you saying that Biodiversity Library is anonymous? NO WAY! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JudeDread (talk • contribs) 12:49, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • The paper does not clearly identify its own author let alone where it was written. It could, for all we know, have been written by someone close to the subject. Further, JudeDread has a heavy involvement with the subject and so we must identify you as a
          vested interest in the outcome of this discussion. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:29, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
          ]
          • I am part of the ORG that wrote the paper and use Gemini. I am passionate about the tools I use and care to help them! One has to ask you 2 about your motives as per the comment from someone else here! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JudeDread (talk • contribs) 15:12, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
            • My full disclosure: I'm a software tester who has used several defect tracking systems and no issue tracking systems. As a Wikipediain, this article falls into one of my areas of interest and I nominated the article because a competitor noted that his article, which was also up for a deletion nomination, had more and better references than this article and several others. After reviewing that list, I nominated the articles that did not meet notability guidelines. With that said, you are clearly in COI as a co-author of that paper. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:33, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
              • So you went and nominated a few articles, looking at that list about 50% of it are not notable! Seems like you went after the first few from top! I'll finish your job. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JudeDread (talk • contribs) 15:39, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
                • See, we can't cite your claim of authorship. This PDF is just a file on BL's site with no signs that it (1) was ever published and (2) was subjected to editorial oversight. Without these conditions met, it is not reliable in terms of
                  WP:GNG, and as such can't prove notability of the subject. — Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk•track) 15:53, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
                  ]
                • (edit conflict) JudeDread, your interpretation is wrong. I looked at the full list presented by the other editor and I nominated those that I felt did not meet notability guidelines. Perhaps the other editor only looked at the first few in the article. I didn't look at the article and look at a few from the top. There is no job to finish, but you may nominate articles for deletion if you feel that they don't meet notability guidelines, but you do so as an editor who is in clear conflict of interest and have stated here that you have an agenda. Before wasting the time of other editors and even admins, you might want to think twice as your actions could be seen as disruptive. Finally, the act of nominating doesn't mean that the article will be deleted, only that a discussion will ensue. Also, if the discussion ends with no support for deletion (either no consensus or keep) you will not be able to nominate the article without providing a different criteria or until the ground rules for nomination change, as is the case here. Walter Görlitz (talk) 15:57, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
                  • Why do you keep coming back with this conflict of interest? I only put the PDF to show a product I am using is notable, nothing to gain for me here! — Preceding unsigned comment added by JudeDread (talk • contribs) 16:10, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
                    • I keep coming back to COI because your only edits, up to the point that I noted it, have been to promote Gemini or its parent company. The closing admin should be aware of this. No other reason. Some editors would see you blocked for this behaviour, but I don't have a problem with it. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep It seems to me that you, JudeDread and Walter, are intent on defining notability in your own terms, in clear breach of the Wikepedia guidelines, which state: "Article and list topics must be notable, or "worthy of notice". Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things such as fame, importance, or popularity." What you are saying is that a product used by governmental organizations, national banks, major financial institutes, space research organizations and the like is not worthy of notice. You insultingly choose to denigrate an academic source without having lifted a finger beyond reading a pdf and doing some googling. Did you attempt to contact said organization? It seems that you are dangerously close to vigilanteism and I wonder for example if JudeDread, being so close to Judge Dredd is perhaps more than a coincidence. The disavowing of self-interest here is irrelevant - why should anybody believe you? Who are you to be believed? To me (and the rest of the world I would imagine) you are far less credible sources than the Biodiversity Library. I suspect you are stooges for one or more organizations on the list with nothing better to do than to find ways to damage their competitors. Whether that is true or not remains to be seen (I shall spend a good long time looking, you can be sure of that). Whatever the case may be, you cannot be a subject matter expert and deem such a commonly used product not "worthy of notice" when clearly thousands of people on the internet DO notice it. What do you take them for then, fools? People less worthy of notability than yourselves? Your deletion request is quite frankly ridiculous in the face of the impressive list of organizations that use the product and the Wikepedia requirement of "worthy of notice". If you choose to persist in this ludicrous farce, please start by listing your CVs so that the world can judge your suitablity to pass such judgement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsikuade (talk • contribs) 16:55, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • — Dsikuade (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
    • Actually I base notability on the Wikipedia definition. The summary at Wikipedia:Notability defines notable subjects, in part, as "those that have gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time, and are not outside the scope of Wikipedia. We consider evidence from reliable independent sources to gauge this attention. The notability guideline does not determine the content of articles, but only whether the topic should have its own article." So what we're seeking here, is those subjects that have been worthy of notice to the community at large. That is reflected in how much they write about the subject. There are great many interesting items on the Internet, but the Wikipedia community does not consider them to be notable. You could raise your concern on the Wikipedia talk:Notability or even Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies), and if the criteria changes, you could recreate the article later or request that it be undeleted in light of the new criteria, assuming that it is changed and the article meets that criteria. Walter Görlitz (talk) 17:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • The real issue is what you consider to be the world at large. As I have already stated, you choose to define notability to suit you own narrow and dubious purposes, since by any definition the 'world at large' could not possibly be considered to be interested in a subject as narrow as issue tracking software. There are more than 7 billion people in the world, how many of them do you think even know what Issue Tracking software is? Almost by definition this is a field of narrow interest filled with enthusiasts and specialists and the number of referential cross-references is bound to be narrow. When I search for Countersoft on duckduckgo, a 'notable' search engine for developers, I find that Asana has bought this company's name - hmmm clearly they think the authors of Gemini and the Gemini product are notable and they have an audience that spanks Atlassian into the ground! You seem to know next to nothing about this space and yet are setting yourself up as some kind of judge and jury. Once again I repeat my question: WHO ARE YOU? WHY ARE YOU SO INTERESTED IN THIS SPACE? WHO DO YOU WORK FOR? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsikuade (talk • contribs) 15:05, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • If you are suggesting that I have a conflict of interest, you're wrong. I already stated my role in relation to this nomination. Feel free to look at my edits, as I did to yours. Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Furthermore, in the light of the clear lack of evidence provided by either SPA, lack of evidence in the article, and the inability of two editors who looked for sources using the tools above (see above where it reads "Find sources" with links to Google, books, scholar, JSTOR and free images), this subject clearly lacks notability and must be deleted. Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:47, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Clearly no consensus for deletion here. There is some support for a redirect (but no consensus for that either), that can be discussed outside of the deletion process if anyone wants to advance that. Lankiveil (speak to me) 09:26, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

South Louisiana Pipeliners

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Not notable; perhaps redirect to Continental Baseball League Go Phightins! 21:20, 21 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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    WP:BASEBALL/N and WP:SPORTS/N, and per both of them, so far as I know, this organization fails. Go Phightins! 23:13, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Keep Fully professional baseball team. Alex (talk) 14:56, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Again, is there a policy that supports any professional baseball team being notable? I am not aware of one ... Go Phightins! 16:36, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have a reliable source that says it was a fully professional team? I haven't been able to source much information about the team. Andrew327 06:58, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Depends on your definition of "fully professional." The Continental Baseball League was a professional baseball league and all players of all teams were paid.Spanneraol (talk) 18:37, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And I think a key is that "fully professional" is not part of any guideline, so although we can nitpick at what the term means, it is irrelevant, as it is not part of any policy-based argument. Go Phightins! 01:12, 30 May 2014 (UTC)\[reply]
Oh, policy-based arguments are no fun. Spanneraol (talk) 05:21, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
If you move beyond policy, you're left with an unsourced article about a group of guys who allegedly drove around the south for a few months losing the vast majority of their games. If you turn back to policy, you see the article utterly failing to meet
GNG. Andrew327 06:20, 30 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Redirect to Continental Baseball League. The League's article could use additional attention and does not have many hits in reliable sources. The Pipeliners don't have anywhere near enough coverage to warrant their own article. Andrew327 03:47, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep.

WP:FOOTYN has notability criteria for soccer clubs. They are not directly comparable to US Baseball clubs but seem good enough to keep this article, barely. filceolaire (talk) 06:22, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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This is what that standard says about team notability: "All teams that have played in the national cup (or the national level of the league structure in countries where no cup exists) are assumed to meet WP:N criteria. Teams that are not eligible for national cups must be shown to meet broader WP:N criteria." The Pipeliners certainly never played at the national level, meaning they should be considered under general notability criteria. I don't believe they meet
WP:N. Andrew327 06:54, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:10, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2016 Indonesia Super League

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there is no need for a 2016 competition page when nothing has been confirmed except 18 teams will be competing. Secondly the article opens with 2014, which just shows this is a copy and paste with no thought. LibStar (talk) 14:45, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete - the Indonesian football editors are in a world of their own, and as far as I can tell have never appeared at afd discussions - if there had been a redeeeming feature of a future event, it is not shown - they will not come here to defend the article, and they rarely maintain their overlinked seaofblue articles - as for thought, almost all Indonesian football articles reflect none at all.

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The result was Merge into female genital mutilation and convert to a redirect to that article. This one took a while to consider, which may be why it was left open for so long. While the numbers lean delete, this is a classic case of the strengths of arguments making the case, rather than the numbers. As for Afusat, no one has provided a strong argument to counter the BLP1E concerns. It is all she is known for. On the other hand, the event is noteworthy and documented. That doesn't necessarily make it notable according to Wikipedia standards (ie: a rename would likely be insufficient). Many of the deletes and even the nom mentioned merging, so it seems clear the issue isn't with the information, but is instead with it being a stand alone article. It also makes sense that someone might search for that term, and they will at least get to the entire article or the subsection that covers this woman. Being noteworthy, it is worth inclusion somewhere else, where it will arguably have more impact and add more value to the reader. If events change and Saliu's status changes as to notability, there should be no prejudice against an article being recreated, but at this time the arguments fall on the side of merging. I have converted to a redirect, and will leave the merging to the actual editors of the articles, who can use the article history for material. Dennis Brown | 2¢ | WER 14:50, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Afusat Saliu

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Originally deleted as

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  • Keep Afusat and her daughters have now been deported to Nigeria but there is continued media interest in her since the deportation, for example an article in the Guardian Online on 3rd June 2004 (The Guardian). The family is still proceeding with a judicial review, so there will be more media coverage in the near future as that process gets under way. The issue has also been extended beyond simply that of FGM, as there is now concern about the possibility of Boko Haram getting involved because of Afusat's conversion to Christianity (also reported in the referenced Guardian article), so simply extending the article on female genital mutilation would not be sufficient. MrUK1953 (talk) 08:29, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete This is a classic example of one event. If it is kept, the article needs to go through very major revisions. Currently it is the worst attack article I have ever seen. Calling things "unfounded, unreasonable" and going on from there is attack language, not encyclopedic language. The whole tone of the article is just not acceptable for Wikipedia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:09, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete -- A classic case of a "famous for 15 minutes". This is a case where some one has got journalists attention and got a case into the papers. FGM is obnoxoius, but not obviously notable. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:48, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep but rename to event article "Deportation of..." for example. The event is notable, the person not so much. Hobit (talk) 20:16, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Oh, after rename, keep a redirect to it. Hobit (talk) 20:18, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete — notwithstanding disagreement over the "letter of the law" with regard to whether
    fail event notability (including no demonstrated lasting effects, limited geographic scope, not really that significant in quantity, lack of diversity in sources, and proportionately short duration of coverage). At best it might be merge-able to Female genital mutilation or a related list of sorts detailing events that have made a headline or two but aren't exactly encyclopedic in and of themselves. --slakr\ talk / 04:22, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was keep, with no prejudice against possible merge into larger article. Mojo Hand (talk) 04:24, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sunit Ghosh

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Rejected PROD. The reason I initally PRODDED was "Poorly referenced BLP", and the article creator reverted my edit, saying that the subject was presumed notable, and that "poorly referenced" wasn't a valid criterion. I dream of horses (T) @ 14:11, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's on my watchlist, so "vandalism and BLP violations" wont be an issue. If we merged every stub into a main list of article, we'd have no articles. There are literally thousands of biography articles (not just cricket) that are in the format of "X did Y in Z <ref> <categories>". Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 16:50, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The thing is, we shouldn't have thousands of biographical articles with only "X did Y in Z", and we also shouldn't rely on only one editor to keep the vandals away. --I dream of horses (T) @ 03:34, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Can you point to the policy about this? Oh you can't, as there isn't one. You best get proding all the stubs on here, based on your logic. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 08:24, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:11, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Spendex

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Not English; using google translate it had no important meaning LovelyEdit talkedits 13:58, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Google translate says that the term was invented or coined by the creator, so this article should actually be tagged for speedy deletion A11. Piguy101 (talk) 19:03, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep.

Due notice was made of the fact that multiple, clearly policy-knowledgable editors participated here until IPs or usernames not previously used. This can sometimes, even often, be a sign of misbehavior, a factor which can complicate the determination of consensus. In this case, the result would have been the same in any case. The conversation got acrimonious, and unnecessarily so. Please

WP:AGF
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I did not find substantial evidence of canvassing; many of the strongest arguments on both sides were raised by experienced editors who are familiar participants at AfD.

The strongest arguments in favor of deletion invoked a fairly straightforward analysis of GNG. As always, a careful analysis of sources, as was done here, demands strong weight.

However, there seemed to be substantial support for the idea that different metrics should be applied to academic journals on a more consistent basis. The various essays on journal notability were cited by a few supporters, each of which tried to identify the metrics we could better use to evaluate journal notability. And those metrics were not so different, in a very general sense, from Carrite's approach to looking at journal publisher as a signifier of notability, nor DGG's looking to the reach of the journal via WorldCat. What I saw here was a number of experienced editors, experienced and knowledgable at AfD, with, in my experience, varied philosophies struggling with "I know this is notable, what the heck is the right way to create a good test?"

That too is a form of rough consensus for both keeping this article and continuing the difficult process of trying better codify a metric for academic journals. --j⚛e deckertalk 21:24, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Democracy & Nature

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Article on an academic journal that existed from 1992 to 2003. Has been taken to AfD three times before (two "no consensus", then keep) in short intervals in 2005. Since then the article has changed a lot and it now has an impressive 24 references (I refer to this version of the article). Unfortunately, this is deceptive: not a single one of these references is independent of the journal, indeed, most are to the journal itself:

  1. / Website of one of the sponsoring institutes with a summary description of the journal.
  2. / A book-selling website
  3. / The journal page on the last publisher's website
  4. / Editorial in the successor journal
  5. / Editorial in the journal itself
  6. / Debate in the journal itself
  7. / 2 commentaries in the journal itself
  8. / 3 commentaries in the journal itself
  9. / Article with 2 commentaries in the journal itself
  10. / Article with commentary in the journal itself
  11. / Article with commentary in the journal itself
  12. / Commentary on a related website with a response in the journal itself and a link to the succesor-joual's website
  13. / 4 articles/commentaries in the journal itself
  14. / 2 articles/commentaries in the journal itself and a (temporary?) dead link
  15. / Commentary in the journal itself
  16. / In-passing mention in a brief bio of one of the journal's associate editors
  17. / In-passing mention in the bio of the journal's book review editor
  18. / List of editorial board members on the journal's website
  19. / Same as 18, but at a different point in time
  20. / Letter of resignation of a board member in the journal itself
  21. / Board's response to 20 in the journal itself
  22. / Article in the journal itself
  23. / Article in the journal itself
  24. / Article in the journal itself

There are also a number of external links. These are to the journal itself, its successor, a website related to its successor, the EBSCO database

WP:NJournals. Hence: Delete. Randykitty (talk) 13:54, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
]

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  • Keep per
    WP:NJournals, and Wikipedia:Notability (periodicals)#Academic journals. The criticism "passing mention" does not apply here; when a scholarly source directs its readers' attention to the coverage of a subject in Democracy & Nature, they are not doing so the way a newspaper article would mention another news source's coverage, or a public figure's opining. Totally different standard. Less than 72 times? I contradict the implication that that is a small number. Average of 10 times per article, for the first three pages of Scholar. Many are 30, 40 times. Google Books, also, looks like an intriguing place for new sources. Anarchangel (talk) 04:20, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
== Democracy & Nature should be kept ==

This entry gives a description of a journal that operated successfully for a number of years. Anyone coming across an article from this journal should be able to look up information about the journal so as to assess the article's provenance. If anyone feels the entry lacks information they are free to add to it. I don't see why it should be deleted. WallabieJoey (talk) 23:50, 1 June 2014 (UTC) — WallabieJoey (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. (user's first edit since 2009)[reply]

== Proposal to delete entry for Democracy & Nature ==

As a former member of the editorial panel and contributor to Democracy and Nature I find the suggestion that this entry be deleted astonishing. It is not just that the journal was very significant internationally during its period of publication; it is a reference point for current work on how to deal with the threat of a global ecological catasrophe. If Wikipedia does not have a place to keep alive memory of the recent past, it seems to me we are in a sorry state, coming closer to 1984. Memory, as Samuel Butler argued, is a defining feature of life. Associate Professor Arran Gare, Swinburne University, Victoria, Australia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.186.26.222 (talk) 00:24, 3 June 2014 (UTC) — 136.186.26.222 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

  • Comment Neither of the above SPA comments, raising the suspicion of off-wiki canvassing, are policy based. --Randykitty (talk) 22:25, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment You should refrain from commenting. Not appropriate for a nominator to do that. Cwobeel (talk) 00:19, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • ?????
    AFD is a discussion about the notability of a subject. It is absolutely appropriate for each and every participant in the debate to comment. --Randykitty (talk) 11:27, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Comment Don't recall looking at that and did not look at it now either. There's 4.5 million pages in WP, there's indeed a couple I've never seen. If that article has problems,
    no bearing on the discussion here. --Randykitty (talk) 12:52, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep First and foremost, I would like to make an “ethical” remark on this brazen and (as I will show below, totally biased) attempt by
    Academic journal
    , it is stressed that:
“In the natural sciences and ‘’’in the "hard" social sciences, the impact factor is a convenient proxy, measuring the number of later articles citing articles already published in the journal’’’. There are other, possible quantitative factors, such as the overall number of citations, how quickly articles are cited, and the average "half-life" of articles. There also is the question of whether or not any quantitative factor can reflect true prestige; natural science journals are categorized and ranked in the Science Citation Index, social science journals in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
In the Anglo-American humanities, there is no tradition (as there is in the sciences) of giving impact-factors that could be used in establishing a journal's prestige. Recent moves have been made by the European Science Foundation to rectify the situation, resulting in the publication of preliminary lists for the ranking of academic journals in the Humanities.”

Thus, as anyone with a rudimentary knowledge may understand from the primary sources provided in the article of Democracy & Nature, the journal is a radical, left-libertarian, direct-democracy Academic Journal, which does not conform to a “hard” science array of journals, no matter if they are natural or social.

For example, a professor in University of Oxford has stressed that [1]

"a wide range of scholars have shown that procedural electoral democracy can be disparaged for its casting of divisions between public life and private life, its liberal individualism (Phillips 2000, 513), as well as its embeddedness in exploitative market economies (refer to Fotopoulos and to related Journals: Democracy and Nature and Periektiki Demokratia)."

But, let’s see, one by one, the (to say the least) completely biased “arguments” of Randykitty used to diminish and devaluate the journal’s importance:

(A) Randykitty says that the existence of references is “deceptive” per se, based on the fact that most references are to the journal itself:

"Article on an academic journal that existed from 1992 to 2003. Has been taken to AfD three times before (two "no consensus", then keep) in short intervals in 2005. Since then the article has changed a lot and it now has an impressive 24 references (I refer to this version of the article). Unfortunately, this is deceptive: not a single one of these references is independent of the journal, indeed, most are to the journal itself"

Nonetheless, even if this were true, it would not be a determining criterion for an article to be nominated for deletion, as primary sources per WP:PS can be used

”to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge”

As a matter of fact, all primary sources used in the article are descriptive, apart maybe from the ones used in a probably subtle “interpretation” in this extract:

"The journal also served as a colloquium for a wide range of more-marginalized left groups, including libertarian socialists, social anarchists, and supporters of the autonomy/democratic project,[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] which sometimes has led to heated exchanges.[13][14][15]"

This extract was just amended by me in the entry itself. The rest of the primary sources are actually descriptive statements of facts for people to have an idea of the journal with access to the primary source without further, specialized knowledge.

But let’s see how Randykitty describes one of the references s/he finds “deceptive”:

"#/ Website of one of the sponsoring institutes with a summary description of the journal."

However the Social Ecology Institute is not a “sponsoring institute” of the Journal (!). It is an Institute that supported the journal, through the writings of mainly two of its members, among plenty of others, along the period of the journal’s operation. The Institute of Social Ecology was and has been independent of the Journal, as can be also documented by Murray Bookchin’s dialogues with members of the Editorial Board[2][3].

Of course, there are indeed many primary sources in the entry, something that can be amended in the entry itself, but as I stressed above, this is not certainly a reason for a topic/article to be nominated for deletion. The primary sources are used descriptively and not interpretatively.

(B) Randykitty then “judges” the value of the journal based on the “Selectivity” of the Indices added to the entry:

“There are also a number of external links. These are to the journal itself, its successor, a website related to its successor, the EBSCO database Academic Search (not selective, indeed does not even limit itself to academic journals but includes many magazines), and a link to a "journal matrix analysis" site, which lists 2 specialized databases in which the journal is listed, neither of them particularly selective either.”

As a matter of fact, though, this is totally irrelevant. Per

WP:Journal
that the nominator him/herself uses as his/her ultimate reference,:

“For journals in humanities, the existing citation indices and GoogleScholar often provide inadequate and incomplete information. In these cases, one can also look at how frequently the journal is held in various academic libraries (this information is available in Worldcat. Other sources can be found on the book sources page, at the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, or at the Zeitschriftendatenbank) when evaluating whether Criterion 1 is satisfied. Data on library holdings need to be interpreted in the light of what can be expected for the specific subject.”

So, in Worldcat, one may find that the journal is available in significant libraries in many locations, particularly in Europe and the UK, like the British Library and the MIT library[4][5]. The same can be retrieved in German academic libraries by cursorily using Zeitschriftendatenbank etc.

As far as the mention of “a journal matrix analysis” site, in fact this is the MIRA index analysis, which is actively supported by the Spanish Academia (University of Barcelona etc.), and the journal scores there an ICDS of 6.279, which seems more than adequate for a non-still operating journal. [6]

(C) But what is even more blatantly uninformed and deceptive is when Randykitty says that:

”Neither are there many citations: a GScholar search reveals that only one article has been cited 72 times, all others have been cited much less and, in fact, not that many articles have been cited at all.”

Something that he repeats later as a “token” for the non-notability of the journal.

“When I say "in-passing", that is exactly what I mean: a citation is used to support something that somebody writes, usually a sentence or part of that. It is not an in-depth discussion of the article cited, even less so of the journal in which that article was published. In addition, this journal seems to be particularly navel-staring. For example, the first article listed when one clicks the GS link above is one by T. Fotopoulos (the EIC). It has been cited 26 times. If you click that and look at the citations, you will see that at least half of them are by Fotopoulos himself."

But, everyone, even with a cursory look at

WP:NJournals
(which Randykitty supposedly has “studied”, and then "lectures" the rest of Wikipedia contributors) can clearly read (at the Criteria section) that:

"Google Scholar should not be used as an indication of notability. Google Scholar is reasonably inclusive for fields where all (or nearly all) respected venues have an online presence. Most papers in computer science will show up, but less technologically related fields or non-scientific subjects are less well represented. Even the journal Science puts articles online only back to 1996. Many journals, additionally, do not permit Google Scholar to list their articles. In the other direction, Google Scholar includes many sources that are not peer-reviewed, such as conference preprints, technical reports, and academic web sites. Thus, the presence or absence of references in Google Scholar should not be used to determine notability. At best, it is a starting point."

It is obvious, hence, that the above constitute a complete bias against the entry and the journal, and even against Takis Fotopoulos, the EIC, when s/he talks about “navel-gazing”, without a shred of evidence!

(D) Finally, as Anarchangel correctly replied, whether the citations are “passing” or not is irrelevant, and it is not of course easy for someone to judge if s/he has not read the book or author that does the citation! Nevertheless if we compile (and this only for Democracy & Nature, that is, excluding “Society & Nature” which also has plenty of references in books, journals and indices) a -certainly not exhaustive, but representative- collection of:

(1) Bibliographical Databases, Journal & Research Indexes,[7][8][9] [10][11][12][13][14] [15] [16]

(2) “Bibliographies and Further Reading” recommendations[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]

(3) References (many of which are accompanied by commentaries and recommendations) [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63] [64] [65] [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] [71] [72] ,and

(4) References used on libertarian and, not only, Education,[73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78]

...then we can verify that there are “tons” of important references and a significant impact of the journal in its field (something testified by contributors in the relevant talk pages as well), taking into account even “quantity”, a factor dictated by the bias and obvious ignorance of the nominator as his/her main “criterion” to judge an alternative journal-medium that was a invaluable forum for socialist, left-Libertarian, and democratic dialogue for the cause of promoting a new, liberatory project! Panlis (talk) 17:54, 4 June 2014 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment The above wall of text contains so many misconceptions about what Wikipedia is and how things are done here that I hardly know where to start. Let me start with saying that you should comment on the subject at hand, not the editor. My motivations are irrelevant and, in any case, WP requires that we
    WP:ILIKEIT. If this journal is as important as several people here so loudly claim, then why is it so difficult to find anything written about the journal? --Randykitty (talk) 18:41, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
Comment: By the intensity of these arguments, and by being compelled to comment on every single Keep, one could easily argue that the one who
WP:IDONTLIKEIT is no other than the nominator. Cwobeel (talk) 19:21, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
]
Comment To be honest, I really wonder when you took the time to read carefully the "above wall of text" before dismissing it on the instant, as it is obvious you bypassed plenty of evidence and arguments that I cited, and I really wonder when you managed to read the dozens of references I mentioned and judge if they go "towards an in-depth coverage of the journal"! Most importantly, there is not any rule in Wikipedia saying that there should be an "in-depth coverage of journal" for an entry or a journal to be entered in Wikipedia (see criteria in
WP:DISRUPTSIGNS
: 4,5 and 6.
I also replied about the primary sources. Contribution to the entry itself is the best way to amend the entry, something that you never did. Instead you started adding multiple tags on it "from day one" and then, after a few days, and even when some contributors started to edit the entry, you nominated it for deletion. So my commentary was on your activity and only this. Someone can judge the difference of our approach by just looking at the debate.
Some of your reply is indicant of your biased argumentation on the matter and shows you did not understand my extended "wall of text" above. E.g. when
WP:Journals
explicitly say that GScholar is not a medium to use in order show notability, one does not use it at all, --that is s/he does not even refer to it--. So what you say "I mentioned this to show that GS did not give evidence of notability. If GS had shown lots of citations, that would show notability, not the other way around." is totally erroneous. You then still say "If somebody here has better searching abilities and can show any evidence of notability, then please present it.". I just did it along with other contributors, and I think very plausibly.
Then you claim that the quote "the journal "served as a colloquium for a wide range of radical left groups, etc" is not something that some reliable source said, nor is it even something that the journal said (and if it did, that is not the kind of "neutral fact" that can be sourced to primary non-independent sources). It is the interpretation of a WP editor." But, only in my vote/comment above, I mentioned a quote of an Oxford Scholar which in fact is only one source of many that may demonstrate that this extract of the entry has a basis. The existance per se, of many citations and references to articles of the journal in books, essays etc. of the left which encompasses the trends above, is also another good indication for the viability of the extract. Many of the dozens of references I provided also can support adequately this claim, but this anyway is something that could be discussed in the Talk Page of the entry, before you start adding tags and nominations for deletion of it! So, and speaking in good faith, instead of giving "lessons" to others about what is an interpretation and what not, why don't you contribute constructively to the entry by adding some of the references that I provided you with, that may support the extract of the entry, or amend the extract itself if you feel it is not totally accurate?Panlis (talk) 19:59, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I'm not going to go into this in detail, because you are clearly not
    journal article writing guide, only to be accused of trying to destroy the article and being reverted wholesale. I'm going to stop responding here, given all the bad faith on the part of all participants. I hope that the closing admin will be willing to read through all the (incorrect) arguments being floated here. --Randykitty (talk) 20:27, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • Keep per
    WP:NJournals.I fully agree with Cwobeel's comments. The importance of a radical Left journal is judged by citations of its contents and contributors. There are plenty of such citations on D&N. To decide that a radical Left journal is very obscure because one cannot find it in an obscure state library is ludicrous, to say the least. Try the major university libraries (Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, London School of Economics e.tc.) for better luck!178.146.93.162 (talk) 21:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC) — 178.146.93.162 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply
    ]
Not always, but the closing admin needs to take that into account when determining consensus. There have been many shenanigans by people coming to these discussions that were canvassed to do just that and who may not give a hoot about Wikipedia. Cwobeel (talk) 21:32, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • KEEP According to wiki notability rules for a journal to be notable it must satisfy at least one of three (1. 2. 3.)notability guidelines:

1. The journal is considered by reliable resources to be influential in its subject area. To satisfy this criteria the journal should be included in a major indexing service in its field. This guideline has been satisfied as D&N is indexed in Alternative Press Index. Who can deny API is not a major service in anti-systemic analysis as is D&N, nor deny EBSCO database is neither reliable nor selective? Randykitty wries on 31 May, “not selective, indeed (EBSCO) does not even limit itself to academic journals but includes many magazines”. So what? Does that mean they are not notable? D&N is also peer reviewed which adds an abundance of credibility to the journal. 2. The journal is frequently cited by other reliable resources. In Panlis most recent edit he has provided sufficient reliable resources citing D&N. This guideline has been fulfilled. 3. The Journal has a historic purpose or a significant history. This criteria is satisfied as the journal has been in existence with a different title, but same content, (the journal has not gone out of business) for twenty-two years and still exists if you all care to subscribe to the journal. Randykitty what was your age 22 years ago? Thus according to wiki guidelines D&N is notable as it has, at least fulfilled one criteria (none-the-less the two other criteria), and the attempt to silence by deletion the journal is disingenuous. As ignorance of the wiki notability guidelines is inadmissible for administrator, especially of Randykitty’s stature, I can only surmise he had a plan to attack D&N (as if it were not already notable), to be blocked indefinitely. "My boss ordered me...", is inadmissible. John sargis (talk) 00:22, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • keep The journal is important in its field and this is sufficient reason for inclusion.
the nominator and I have agreed on 99% of the journal discussions here. Certainly, I continued to maintain the validity of our criteria -- criteria which he and I have played a large part in developing over the years -- based mainly on indexing and citation for academic journals in the academic citation and indexing networks, particularly in the physical and biological sciences and the "hard" social science where research and publication patterns resemble those sciences. Outside that area matters are much more doubtful. In the humanities, citation patterns of weak and inconclusive, indexing does not give a useful separation , and the GNG is in practice totally worthless for all such publications, for essentially nobody writes "substantial" publications about any journals of any sort except the very most famous. This applies all the more to nonacademic journals. This is a journal of opinion and persuasion, not of academic research in the usual sense. The only rational criterion is the significant presence of the journal within its world of communication and discourse, and I think that has been satisfactorily demonstrated.
I am of course considerably concerned at the vehemence of the defense of this article, but I think it is an understandable response to the deletion nomination, which is based on the application of standards which do not work here, I know the nominator does not apply the GNG to academic journals--which is why he and I and the others concerned developed the present standards for these journals, I am therefore puzzled at the use of them here, where they are just as irrelevant.
It should not have been necessary to defend this journal. Worldcat shows the journal to be present in over 400 libraries [14], and that is fully sufficient demonstration of its importance in the field and therefore its notability. That's a rational standard for inclusion in an encyclopedia. DGG ( talk ) 05:29, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks
    Predatory open access publishing and the link to Beall's list therein, which itself lists a large number of publishers, many of them publishing hundreds of journals. Carrite says "We need to have an article on every peer-reviewed academic journal". I understand the sentiment behind that statement and even agree with it, this is how things should be in an ideal world. Unfortunately, the world is not ideal... Consider the list that I just linked to in the previous phrase. All those journals claim to be peer-reviewed. Many of them even are (albeit bad peer review). How are we going to decide when peer review is really peer review? How will we evaluate its quality? And all this without violating Wikipedia:No original research? Should we include all those journals in WP? Should we let Beall decide what comes into WP or not? The reality is that we need inclusion criteria, even for peer-reviewed journals. And the consequence of that is that from time to time we will have an AfD for a journal and delete some of them. --Randykitty (talk) 14:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
So, you did not check WorldCat? It may be a good idea then to add WorldCat to the AFD template (Find sources:... alongside JSTOR and others. That would have save the time sunk in this debate. Cwobeel (talk) 14:21, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Neither did anybody else until DGG came here. There are many different types of journals and many different possible sources. WorldCat is rarely one that needs to be consulted. And if the debate had been conducted civilly and
assuming good faith, and people would have used the time attacking my motives for searching on how to improve the article and show notability, then it would indeed have taken much less time and effort. --Randykitty (talk) 15:09, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
]
Not to belabor on this, but you could have done the same and avoid the whole thing. Happy editing. Cwobeel (talk) 16:01, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I could and so could have everybody else. I didn't think of it, as I explained, its rarely consulted. But I guess I'm talking to someone with an eidetic memory who never makes the slightest mistake. That I forgot WorldCat is not so strange in the light of the fact that in my experience, the kind of partisan editing that was going on at the article, and even more the vehemence displayed during this debate, are 90% of the time a sure indication that something really, really is not notable. --Randykitty (talk) 16:23, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I am always concerned when some editors show a behavior as if they are the only "defenders of the wiki". That type of ownership when taken to that extreme, did not help either and added to the lengthy back and forth, and with hindsight, a total waste of editors' time. Cwobeel (talk) 18:46, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Incidentally, when dealing with a publication of any sort, or with an author, or anyone who has ever been an author as part of their career, the first thing I do is check worldCat--it tends to give a quick indication of what the situation is. For example, if for an author I find no items listed, or only 1 or 2 holdings, there's usually no point in doing an exhaustive search for reviews. From the previous arguments I expected to find about 40 holdings here; if so, I would still have said keep, but it would have been a more tentative argument. for it would not have been clear to be that the publication was important rather than a little fringy. . This is undoubtedly my library experience, but I think it s relevant experience on this sort of subject, and I would strongly urge others to do this also. DGG ( talk ) 00:05, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • KEEP First, the journal, published only electronically and under a slightly different name, still exists (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/), more than 20 years after the first issue of Society& Nature/Democracy & Nature was published.
Second, the historical purpose of a journal can only be assessed over time. The now famous Socialisme ou Barbarie journal (Socialisme ou Barbarie) was a very obscure journal indeed at the time of its publication and no major university libraries kept any copies of it at that moment of time.
Third, what the nominator says in dismissing at a stroke all other arguments apart from those by other administrators as non-rational is that there is no democratic rationalism involved in wikipedia discussions but only “wiki rationalism”. This implies that the view of any non-administrator on such crucial matters as deleting an article on an important radical Left journal is decorative. If this is so, then it should be said openly by wiki administrators, or, alternatively, interventions by non-wikipedia administrators should better be banned altogether, so that everybody is clear on how democratic these discussions really are!Rstvr (talk) 22:27, 6 June 2014 (UTC)Rstvr — Rstvr (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.  :[reply]
  • You're absolutely right that WP is not a democracy and things are not decided based on the number of votes they get (which is why we call them !votes). WP
    reliable secondary sources. If an historical purpose cannot be verified with such sources, then a hundred editors can come and say they think it has such a purpose, but our opinions don't carry any weight if they are not supported by sources. Indeed, "the historical purpose of a journal can only be assessed over time". If at this point in time that is not yet clear, then we'll have to wait until it has become clear. That DGG is an admin (or I myself) is irrelevant, admins can do some menial work that non-admins cannot do, is all. It's just that DGG came with an argument that was independently verifiable. Finally, whether the journal still exists is debatable. The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy started completely new, with different volume numbering and a different publisher. The only continuation is the editor-in-chief. If it were a clear continuation, the the current article should have been renamed to the new journal title, as we habitually do with journals that undergo a name change. --Randykitty (talk) 09:11, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
Comment: The difference between a proper encyclopedia, (Britannica, Routledge e.tc. - which by the way has an entry on D&N) and Wikipedia is that the former are reliable sources of knowledge because the entries are written by experts on their field who know what they are talking about, unlike of course administrators like yourself who obviously have no idea of what a radical Left journal is about in general and what its contribution to knowledge, research and politics has been in particular. This is why you rely instead on ‘verified reliable sources’. But for anybody with an elementary knowledge of the philosophy of science this is impossible, simply because, unlike ‘hard sciences’, there is no (and can never be) any consensus, let alone an objective truth, in the analysis of social phenomena, as it is mostly possible with natural phenomena. All this is presumably unknown to people who count the references of what they consider ‘reliable’ sources (usually ‘systemic’ sources) in order to assess the notability of an entry. However, Wikipedia could play a significant role in breaking the ‘systemic’ monopoly of knowledge by providing ‘alternative’ sources of knowledge and social research, and up to now it was doing just this to a significant extent, and this is the main reason of its appeal to visitors. If it now starts deleting ‘alternative’ journals like D&N and tomorrow continues with entries about alternative political projects and theorists, simply because there is not enough ‘systemic’ evidence to support them, then Wikipedia will not only become a second class orthodox encyclopedia but, even worse, as the well known philosopher and academic Arran Gare put it, this would imply that “we are in a sorry state, coming closer to 1984”—a comment whose significance obviously escaped your knowledge and, like a good wiki bureaucrat, you promptly dismissed it as a “SPA comment not policy based!” 94.66.3.101 (talk) 14:17, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • With your disdain for (and misunderstanding of) the way WP works, I wonder why you even bother coming here. Please read
    "What Wikipedia is not" and then go create your own wiki somewhere else so that you can push your POV without any interruption by wikicrats. --Randykitty (talk) 14:54, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
94.66.3.101, you are not helping the article with this line of argument. WP in an encyclopedia, and the purpose of an encyclopedia is to report on what is already notable in the world, not to bring neglected topics to attention nor to advance the frontiers of knowledge. "Breaking the existing monopoly of knowledge" is indeed something we do, but in a different sense than you say: we break the existing barriers to knowledge from the paid system of publishing, providing free access to information. But the information we provide access to is about those things that are already known, and already recognized for their importance. Indeed, we do try to correct for the systematic bias of coverage in conventional print sources by somewhat relaxing the standards for materials that may not be readily accessible in conventional forms. But the attempt to bring to attention what ought to be noticed but has not yet been is what we call promotionalism, and we avoid it. That an article promotes something not yet notable is cause for deletion, not inclusion. Breaking these sorts of social and intellectual barriers must be done elsewhere, for we are not qualified to judge what deserves to be importance--all we can do is to try to determine what already is. We are not purely orthodox: we cover topics outside the mainstream as well as in the mainstream, but only if they are notable in their own fields, and the public interested in those fields will therefore want information on them.
If this publication was unknown or almost unknown, we would not cover it. The argument for having an article about it is that it is already well known in its field, as shown by its inclusion in library collections, and by the use of material in it from a wide range of other publications, and by its choice as a publication medium by notable authors. DGG ( talk ) 03:49, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
DGG thanks for the useful information. Obviously, I was not trying to help the article. I was simply trying to find out whether wikipedia is really an alternative encyclopedia, as seen by Arran Gare above and many people at large. Clearly, providing free dissemination of systemic knowledge on social phenomena is not what many activists fighting for a better world had in mind when talking about an alternative encyclopedia.85.74.194.119 (talk) 06:38, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Randy has found an error in my argument: over 3/4 of the libraries hold only the electronic version, and most of those are in the habit of adding to their catalog every title in a collection to which they subscribe. Other libraries, including my own, does not do that, but adds only the ones selected by the subject bibliographers as worth adding. The OCLC record does not clearly distinguish, though there are normally separate master records, libraries often add their holdings information to one of them without paying attention to that, considering the distinction a mere format difference. If one wants total holdings, one normally adds them all together. (The diagnostic feature for the situation is whether the list contains libraries one would not expect to have it, and lacks those that one would) The OCLC record here, shows the libraries that all of them or almost all did hold the print, showing 74 libraries. This is the minimum number of true subscriptions, and my estimate of he total number of libraries that would be truly subscribing is about 150-200. Now, that covers the US+Canada+a few major research libraries elsewhere--the number of libraries worldwide for academic material is usually estimated as double the US rate. This gives a true worldwide subscriptions of between 300 - 400 (I didnt correct for non-US earlier, but Ebsco etc have a higher reach in the US). This is still very significant, I I think does show notability -- though not as clearly as I thought. (I will remember to be more careful in checking in the future) DGG ( talk ) 19:43, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
DGG, I am sorry, but given all these uncertainties, I am going back to my original !vote. I do not think that the WorldCat counts, given these imponderables, establish notability. --Randykitty (talk) 12:17, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Randykitty the link you provide to “what WP is not” does not tell us what it is and is thus in contradiction! Defining something by what it is not is a really poor exhibition for rational thinking that does not press forward ideas much further than the negative. You claim to obtain rationality, for anyone who has read the exchanges (4 june {your italics}: I gave a detailed analysis of why I think the sources are insufficient) by dismissing and adamantly rejecting all other users arguments, and even a ‘good’ administrator included (DGG “keep” vote of 6 June: The journal is important in its field and this is sufficient reason for inclusion…the nominator and I have agreed on 99% of the journal discussions here. Certainly, I continued to maintain the validity of our criteria -- criteria which he and I have played a large part in developing over the years… It should not have been necessary to defend this journal. Worldcat shows the journal to be present in over 400 libraries [2], and that is fully sufficient demonstration of its importance in the field and therefore its notability. That's a rational standard for inclusion in an encyclopedia.), you failed to reply to my “keep” rationale even due to the fact that D&N is notable as a journal of rational argument, according to wiki guidelines. Furthermore, DGG performs a pure bureaucratic maneuver that he simply counts the number of libraries subscribing to D&N as a criterion of notability. On 6 June you heap praise on the only 1 rational argument in the whole lot, according to you, that is given by the ‘good’ administrator to the ‘bad’ administrator where you change your vote from “delete” to “weak keep”. “I will ignore” the, facetious (you could have hypothesized) “weird question about my age”. Then why didn’t you reply to me as mine was not a remark or comment, but a rational argument? On 10 June DGG says you found a hole in his argument, but that nevertheless D&N “does show notability”. On 11 June you again switch your vote back to your original vote to “delete”! Your claim of 4 June to “detailed analysis” leads one to think that you are on a mission to delete D&N as a notable journal from Wikipedia as your vote today exhibits. The discussion should have been closed after 7 full days, but here it is some 11 full days! Have the last few days of debate become less acrimonious? It seems you have dug into every conceivable excuse to delete “D&N”. If, according to your interpretation and against the “good” DGG, Worldcat is not reliable, then does that make the libraries which use Worldcat less reliable by extension? If no, how would Wikipedia make that determination? It is strange a privileged wiki-rule you used to claim “off-wiki” canvassing against two users without any proof, a SPA crime, (as charged by you on 3 June), but “on-wiki” canvassing is not a crime, since you enlisted the expertise help of DGG, the record of which has now since disappeared from DGG talk page (==Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Democracy & Nature (4th nomination) ==Dear David, this AfD debate is getting quite acrimonious. I'm backing out, but perhaps you could have a look. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 20:34, 4 June 2014 (UTC)! Your vote, to avoid irrationality, should at least have remained “weak keep”. John sargis (talk) 19:42, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not going to reply to the above rant, except for one point: the accusation of on-wiki canvassing. You correctly cited my post on DGG's talk, not asking to come help me, but to ask him for his opinion. You might also be interested in the exchange I had with DGG on this subject on my own talk page (
    WP:AGF. It's becoming harder and harder for me to follow that guideline myself in this case. --Randykitty (talk) 20:16, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
    ]
  • I have explained my thinking at length above (poor admin who'll have to wade through all this verbiage, small wonder nobody has turned up yet to close this AfD...) That you seem unable to accept that somebody, based on the same evidence, comes to a different conclusion than you (if WP were a democracy, we might call that dissent) is your problem, not mine. If you think that it is a problem that I am flexible and change my mind when confronted with convincing evidence, and then change it back when that evidence turns out to be less convincing than initially thought, again, that's your problem, not mine. BTW, you might want to read
    WP:COI, given your apparent connection with the journal's successor. The vehemence displayed by others here make me thinkl= that, just perhaps, they might have a teenie weenie connection to the journal, too. --Randykitty (talk) 11:05, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:55, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

SightLife

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A local organization, with almost entirely local references and local very minor awards. The purpose is presumably promotional. I make this assumption for every article on an organization that bothers to list "best companies to work for" as an award--such awards are mere PR and that includes human interest stories is small local papers among the references. An actually notable organization has no need to do either. DGG ( talk ) 18:40, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 18:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of transactions involving the Dallas Mavericks

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non-relevant fancruft The Banner talk 10:53, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 18:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 18:09, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was keep. Merge discussions can proceed through normal processes. postdlf (talk) 18:10, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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WP:IINFO. Excluding the reception section, it is all primary sources and walkthrough's. Reception is about the environment of the game in general, not specific locations. Specific locations are not discussed by outside sources. Vaypertrail (talk) 10:14, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:11, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Johnny Sudenberg

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Non-notable boxer who's claim to fame is he fought Jack Dempsey before the latter become champion. Single non death index reference is to Jack. Peter Rehse (talk) 08:52, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:11, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Ayala, Sr.

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Non-notable boxer. Sons are notable but

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Ballycraigy Primary School

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Primary school. We don't generally keep stand-alone articles of such schools, absent unusual notability reflected in coverage that is absent here. Tagged for notability for over a year. Epeefleche (talk) 07:19, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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  • He is a new editor. Perhaps he was unaware of our rule in this area; it's not completely intuitive, and we have a bunch of similar schools that have to be addressed. Just guessing. Epeefleche (talk) 23:26, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's true I just assumed he wasn't a new editor lol. →Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 23:57, 5 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yea I'm a pretty new editor, also created that page ages ago... Sorry guys! Mikes (talk) 21:00, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:12, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Same World, Different Day

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After performing some cleanup and

TOO SOON Schmidt, Michael Q. 04:53, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Delete The micro budget is still in crowdsourcing. No guarantee that this
WP:NFILMS to have reached the principal photography stage. And that would only matter if the film otherwise met the notability criteria. No substantial, non-trivial independent coverage for the film, its directors, its producers, or its stars. —Largo Plazo (talk) 11:34, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was redirect to

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Claim to notability appears to be because of his status with the LDS church. Only sources are LDS church-related and/or fleeting. Since notability requires sources independent of the topic, fails GNG and should be deleted.

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Your vote is not based in policy. We don't keep articles just because they are about people who served in a particular capacity, we keep articles if there are reliable sources about them. If this person really was notable, there would be more about him out there than a fleeting mention in the New York Times and the rest ripped from Mormon websites. That also goes for any LDS official, so if there are unsourced dead general authorities, they should be deleted too
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  • Oppose As can be seen from his mention in the New York Times, Alvarez held major positions within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The sources used are not directly controled by Alvarez and reflect the fact that he was a major educational and religious leader.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:50, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The mention in the times does not cover him in depth enough to attest notability, sorry. There is no policy or guideline that states that people holding Alvarez's position should be kept. Failing that, it defaults to GNG, which he fails
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  • Weak delete - in my view, a claim to notability could be made on one of three grounds so I will deal with them on that basis:
1.
WP:GNG
 - no, the coverage available is from the church itself and so isn't independent, a key requirement of such coverage.
2. Principal of Benemerito Preparatory School - no, school principals are generally not considered notable for having held that position.
3. General authority - maybe. He was one of a group of about 100 church leaders for 5 years. We generally consider cardinals of the Catholic Church (perhaps a similar position in terms of rank) to be notable. But this is a much smaller organisation where individuals of that rank are responsible for far fewer people and elevation to the rank is not for life.
I don't really think that number 3 is enough, alone, to confer notability but it is by far the closest thing to a claim to notability this subject has. Failing the presentation of additional coverage in reliable sources, I'm inclined to think the article should be deleted. Stalwart111 07:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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    List of general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (there's not much to merge into that list) per discussion at other AFDs about various General authorities. St★lwart111 03:40, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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    List of general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or to General authority. Not notable enough for an individual article perhaps, but collectively enough to list somewhere. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:28, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was keep. Lankiveil (speak to me) 07:28, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi

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The "swearing-in ceremony" of any leader, however important he/she may be, can hardly claim a Wikipedia article of itself. Here, too, an entire article for such a topic, seems inappropriate. Maybe there can be a brief section (much shorter than this article) about the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi in some other related article (e.g.

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This article uses the
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Comment: Infobox event replaced with Infobox historical event by this edit. I think User:Powerplant786 taken it from this article because most of the inauguration articles using this template. Gfosankar (talk) 05:32, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Those "inaugurations" may have been more than just "swearing-in ceremonies". They may have had more events, lasted for longer duration, had more attendees, all of which may have increased their significance. (Besides, creating an article just because others have created similar articles seems poor reasoning. It is a repetition of mistakes.) The swearing-in ceremony of the Indian Council of Ministers is not such an extravaganza. It does not merit its own separate article. The presence of SAARC leaders, controversy over attendance of Sri Lankan president, etc. were important points (probably the only points worth mentioning in an encyclopedia article), but all this can easily fit in a section of the
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Swearing-in ceremony of Modi was a historical event, as mentioned by many commentators, e.g 1, 2, 3, also it must be mentioned that Swearing in of Indian PM, is just like US inauguration of presidential office, and there are many pages for the latter. Modi's swearing in was a talked about event in many countries and was historic in nature. So a page for it is of good utility and should be kept. Powerplant786 (talk) 14:32, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Almost each and everything that happens these days can be linked to Modi. We have to understand that the article on Modi is a biography and can't accommodate everything in it. Mergers now are later on pruned and completely deleted after sometime over there. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 04:51, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Keep. The topic meets the
    Infobox historical event}}, that template is just a redirect to {{Infobox event}} -- I don't see what the problem is. utcursch | talk 20:24, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Whatever content makes this article notable can (and should) be accommodated in a section of the article
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This was not a "low-key" affair - that's the entire point. And, no, there is no minimum duration for an event to be considered notable - by that logic, we will have to delete the the 130+ articles in Category:FA Cup Finals. Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony was a "substantively important" event:
  • It was attended by the heads of 7 countries that represent over 1/5th of the world's population. This is without counting Bangladesh (which was represented by the speaker of its Parliament) and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. This was the first time in India's history that all the SAARC heads were invited to the swearing-in ceremony of a PM (Narendra Modi's swearing-in: SAARC makes history, comes together for a new experience)
  • The media as well as political & IR analysts discussed its significance beyond the mere oath-taking, in multiple contexts (e.g. India-Pakistan relations, India's attempt to showcase itself as the regional leader, the release of fishermen by Pak and SL, the Tamil issue etc.)
  • It received widespread coverage internationally, with media from Australia to America explicitly using the word "historic" to describe it (the ceremony, not the electoral win).
By any standard, this event is more significant than most of articles in Category:United States presidential inaugurations. Calling it "not important enough" is just plain systemic bias. utcursch | talk 00:10, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, or merge (after shortening) with
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Two votes not allowed. You are already the nominator of this AfD. Hence striking your vote but keeping your comment. §§Dharmadhyaksha§§ {T/C} 03:33, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 12:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Changing result to no consensus per discussion on my talk page, especially the sources [15] and [16]. Inability to read a language is not a valid reason to deny a source. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 10:05, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Philip Ng

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Martial artist who fails

WP:MANOTE. He also doesn't appear to meet the notability standards for actors and no reliable sources are referenced.Mdtemp (talk) 16:29, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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With one exception, those articles are just a list of movies he's appeared in or about Linda Chung (his long-time girl friend). Notability is not inherited.Mdtemp (talk) 13:13, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Content on the web in regards to his body of work as a martial arts actor and action director can easily be found. Hong Kong media tends to focus on gossip and personal relationships among their artistes so articles regarding his rumored relationship would naturally appear more often in searches. Notability should not be inherited but it often is, but in his case if he was not notable in his field, the Hong Kong press would not give him any coverage regardless of who he is dating or not dating. . E.g., this, this, this, this.

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The problem is that none of these show independent coverage from a reliable source. I'll wait to see if better sources are added before voting. Papaursa (talk) 20:21, 12 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Neither the article nor the sources mentioned by the keep voters provide the significant independent coverage required by
    WP:GNG. Astudent0 (talk) 01:17, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Yes they do
WP:GNG states as one of its criteria - " "Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content. Significant coverage is more than a passing mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material." Each article listed addresses him (the topic) directly and in detail. i.e. this this, this,this,this,this,this,this All reliable independent and third party sources reporting directly about him. A simple search on Google or any other search engine will bring up many more. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kungfu05 (talk • contribs) 09:59, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The sources mentioned earlier do not show significant independent coverage from reliable sources. As for this bunch of sources you just mentioned that are in Chinese, my translate program doesn't do much with these. The ones I got didn't meet the necessary standards and the others I can't evaluate. As stated in
WP:GNG). It's an English WP and the burden of proof is on those who claim notability. Astudent0 (talk) 01:29, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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WP:GNG All the delete voters just state that the articles listed by the Keep voters are not reliable or independent without stating how they are so. While I have on more than one occasion stated criteria listed in the Wikipedia guidelines that all of the listed articles meet. And each article or video listed are from internationally recognized third party media organizations which a simple internet search can confirm, so not sure why we are going in circles debating clear evidence as a number of the listed articles are in English that is written or translated by the actual source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kungfu05 (talk • contribs) 07:46, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The topic of this debate is notability of the subject matter, which over the course of this debate seems more like a subjective matter rather than an objective one, thus evolving guidelines are set by Wikipedia to maintain a certain status quo in articles being published.
WP:N#NCONTENT - "Notability is a property of a subject and not of a Wikipedia article. If the subject has not been covered outside of Wikipedia, no amount of improvements to the Wikipedia content will suddenly make the subject notable. Conversely, if the source material exists, even very poor writing and referencing within a Wikipedia article will not decrease the subject's notability." As each of the various media coverage sources listed by the Keep voters meet all criteria listed by Wikipedia's guidelines and the fact that a simple internet query will show ample and easily accessible information about the subject strongly points to the subject notability in his field. If fellow editors feel the article is poorly written or could be formatted better, please help improve it or offer insight on how. The debate now is Keeping or Deleting this article based on the subject's notability, which evidence has been brought forth by the Keep voters to assert clearly. While I agree that Wikipedia should not be a repository of all information, Wikipedia SHOULD list articles on subjects that a number of the public would like to find out more about (i.e. Notability). For example, if I come across an article in Wikipedia on [this] film, I enjoy the fact that I can find links to other independent entries on Wikipedia about the film's lead actors so I can learn more about them. The subject of this debate meets the criteria for Notability set forth by this community, if anyone disagrees, please state why. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kungfu05 (talk • contribs) 09:01, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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Others have stated why they believe he's not notable and you responded with a missive against a straw man argument. Claiming those articles "meet all criteria listed by Wikipedia's guidelines" is false when sites like IMDB, chinesemovies.com, and his family's martial arts page clearly are not independent AND reliable. (I don't know how reliable some of the others are, but I hope you see my point). In addition, it's reasonable to claim that the articles on his girl friend that mention him are "passing mentions" and not "significant" coverage. The last bunch of articles you mentioned are all in Chinese and my computer translation makes them a garbled mess that prevents me from figuring out what they're talking about. Astudent0 is correct when he says the burden of proof is on you. Right now I'm on the fence--I think he may well be notable, but I'm not yet seeing the sources that clearly show me that. Papaursa (talk) 04:21, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Weak Delete I have been asking to see better sources for several weeks because I couldn't find the coverage I felt is necessary to show he meets GNG, and none has been provided. I will reconsider if additional sources are provided. Papaursa (talk) 02:55, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete--Ymblanter (talk) 09:51, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Muhammed Nisham

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Notability of subject questionable, Article seems to be only based on indictment or accusation. JacobiJonesJr (talk) 20:32, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 01:13, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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notable. Lacks significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Awards are not major. nothing notable here. duffbeerforme (talk) 12:27, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Comment not all of the citations are to self-published sources. The source at Fuzz Magazine, a Belgian electronic music magazine in Flemish, seems to be independent. It is an interview, so most of it would only qualify as reliable under
    Self-published and questionable sources as sources on themselves. Also two citations that might have been independent are deadlinks. --Bejnar (talk) 23:33, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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  • Delete fails on notability, coverage is simply not wide enough. Semitransgenic talk. 14:58, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 18:10, 7 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

List of circulating currencies by value

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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 04:01, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ramshackle Glory

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No evidence of notability, per

WP:GNG. There appear to be no reliable sources online, only user-submitted reviews and/or student newspapers. --Animalparty-- (talk) 09:17, 23 May 2014 (UTC)[reply
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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 20:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kamienica przy ul. Warszawskiej 5 we Wrześni

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