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Delete It has received some coverage but not enough. Probably will receive more coverage when/if it spikes again, and could be re-created then. Currently does not meet GNG.
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Non-notable journalist. The Arabic sourcing either doesn't appear to be about him or is about one event (he was injured in a bombing, which unfortunately happens fairly frequently to journalists in war zones).
WP:BLP1E applies here
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This is an Indian film producer and director who has an impressive list of films but no evidence of significant coverage in reliable independent sources. I have already cleaned up some blog and IMDB citation, but the remaining ones are either associated with the subject's company
Pen N Camera International (which I have just converted to a redirect because it had largely the same content as this article), or offer only mentions or scant coverage. The creator of this article appears to be associated with Pen N Camera International, based on contribution history. ~
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Delete Still non notable. I wouldn't take it as G4, though, as the prior AFD is over a decade old, and all but 2 of the participants have been inactive for years.
L3X1◊distænt write◊21:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak delete or Redirect to
God's Stuff: I'm not seeing enough to meet GNG, but the strip itself appears to have adequate indicia of notability. My thinking is a redirect might be preferable so as to not leave a redlink as bait for re-creation, given that this is round two as to this individual.
Montanabw(talk)21:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Even though the name is unusual and thus Google results are easy to parse, I'm not seeing any significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. The comic strip has no notability either.
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Keep I was ready to have the article deleted until I did a search in Google on "Evelyn Adams lottery" and found dozens of sources, many of which were added to the article. Many of the sources that include her name are brief mentions, but the two sources from The New York Times are in-depth coverage about her, both from 1986 when she won for the second time (arguably a BLP1E) and in 1993 after she had blown it all. The coverage has continued over the decades, using her example as a two-time lottery winner who lost it all as a cautionary tale. I plan on nominating the expanded article for inclusion in DYK, though the AfD would have to end successfully for inclusion.
Alansohn (
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13:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete- Violation of
WP:BLP as notable for one event only (technically two, but even so). The only in-depth coverage came when she actually won the lottery. Articles after that were "where are they now?" human-interest stories about multiple people. And featuring the article as DYK would just further violate the "presumption in favor of privacy" in BLP.--
Rusf10 (
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05:11, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Reply to non-policy-based vote All you've done is make an assertion that the individual is not notable. I get, you don't like it; it's
WP:NOTNOTABLE. No one has argued that winning the lottery is a claim of notability in and of itself. Winning the lottery twice and being the topic of sustained coverage over a period of decades a rather string claim of notability. The fact that you are unable to address the reliable and verifiable sourcing only detracts any credence from your vote.
Alansohn (
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19:58, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
As rare as it is, simply winning the lottery twice is not a strong claim to notability. And even though she one twice, winning the lottery is a routine event (hundreds of people win every year), so I still going to call it "notable for one event only". She has not been the subject of significant in-depth coverage since she won the lottery the second time. A few sentences in those "where are they now?" lottery winners stories since are not significant in-depth coverage. This type of coverage actually falls under
WP:NOTNEWS. What is the purpose of this article anyway? To embarrass (or possibly shame) a woman who obviously has very poor money management skills and a possible gambling addiction?--
Rusf10 (
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21:42, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:BLP1E covers *ONE* -- and only *ONE* -- event. She is notable for *TWO* events, having been noted as the first person in the United States to have the distinction, and has received enduring and significant in-depth coverage since her second win. It's refreshing to see that you're appealing to mentions of Wikipedia policy, such as
WP:NOTNEWS, rather than just arguing that anything you don't like should be deleted, and repeating that argument ad nauseum at forum after forum until you achieve your goal of seeing an article deleted. Unfortunately, WP:NOTNEWS makes mentions of four specific criteria: 1) Original reporting ; 2) News reports; 3) Who's who; and 4) A diary. None of those apply, and if you're calling thus based on a news report, that is described as "For example, routine news reporting on things like announcements, sports, or celebrities is not a sufficient basis for inclusion in the encyclopedia.", which is not what these in-depth article are. The net result is hardly an argument for anything, let alone deletion.
Alansohn (
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02:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
How is winning the lottery not a routine news event? Every single week I see a story on the local news about someone winning the lottery. She won twice, it made a nice "can you believe that happened?" story for the media and now its over. And as I said before since then there have only been trivial mentions of this woman in what happened to former lottery winner stories. Yes, I know it happened **TWO** times, that's not **ONE**, but **TWO** times, I even said that in my last comment, but from previous experience I know you have trouble with reading. I'm not sure if its a comprehension problem or you just need new glasses (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, see an eye doctor).
However, it was the same event twice, winning the lottery ranks extremely low on the list of events ranked by notability. If we take a look at
WP:EVENT &
WP:ROUTINE, it clearly falls in line with the other routine events there. "This is especially true of the brief, often light and amusing (for example bear-in-a-tree or local-person-wins-award), stories that frequently appear in the back pages of newspapers or near the end of nightly news broadcasts ("And finally" stories)." (emphasis mine) If winning an award is not notable, I doubt winning the lottery is. (even if you do it twice) Adams winning the lottery twice does not meet the requirements of having a lasting effect or duration of coverage.
Let's try another example here. Let's say someone makes the news twice for committing two separate, but similar crimes (let's say it was murder and there were witnesses so we know who did it). And then this person still has not been arrested and five years later they appear on America's Most Wanted or some similar show. Didn't they get coverage for two separate events? Didn't they also get coverage a few years later? Would they also meet the requirements for an article? Unless their crime was murdering some famous person, I doubt it. It would still be routine.--
Rusf10 (
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03:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
What an ass -- "from previous experience I know you have trouble with reading" -- but let's try to take your ludicrous arguments at face value. The question is not whether you arbitrarily decide that a person is notable, it's coverage in reliable and verifiable sources, a topic that you have studiously ignored. The coverage about Adams has been anything but routine, as a search for sources required by
WP:BEFORE would have shown, had policy been observed in this case. One person killing two people is not an independent event; one person winning the lottery twice, an event described in multiple reliable and verifiable sources as a one on 15 trillion occurrence (even if you disagree with the calculation), is anything but
WP:ROUTINE. That's why there's no coverage of Adams winning the lottery the first time, but *LOTS* of coverage of her winning twice in the span of four months. Your example of murderers undermines itself and proves the exact opposite of what you argue.When you write
WP:BLP2E and get it approved as policy by consensus, you might have a case.
Alansohn (
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17:36, 22 February 2018 (UTC)reply
If
WP:BLP2E actually became a policy (instead of an essay), it would support your argument, not mine. Again, I highly recommend that you **READ** things **BEFORE** you post them. The fact that the BLP2E essay is not policy seems to suggest not everyone agrees with such a literal interpretation of BLP1E.--
Rusf10 (
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05:00, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources found by Alan especially the New York Times sources which is a clear sign of passing GNG, also two wins = two events, clearly. Also on it's own this means nothing but i'm not even in the same continent of this woman and i know her name, for a lottery winner in the 80s to get 36,217
[1] views on here, shows there's interest.
GuzzyG (
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22:28, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. This is tabloid journalism. There's a long history of people winning lotteries, becoming sports stars, etc, and then squandering their fortunes because they never learned how to manage money. I'll admit it's a stretch to call winning the lottery twice one event, but it kind of is. We don't need this article, and we certainly don't need it on the front page. If you want to call it
WP:IAR, I'm OK with that. --
RoySmith(talk)19:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Appears to easily pass
WP:GNG based on the current sourcing of the article. She has received "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" over the course of many years, not just for the lottery wins themselves, but also for how her life went afterward.
Lonehexagon (
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04:49, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Page has been significantly improved since the AfD was created due to Alansohn's edits introducing solid refs to meet GNG. This is not a BLP1E article as she is mentioned in full pieces over at least the span of 7 years as shown in the refs included on the page, then additionally 20+ years later she is still being mentioned. (Though these passing-mention refs wouldn't be appropriate for establishing GNG, they show an interest in the subject decades later, plus GNG is already proven with the refs from 1986 and 1993.) The article also receives tons of hits so there is interest in her still in 2018.
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15:26, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Contested
WP:PROD from years back. Despite that, the article remains a completely unsourced stub. As the contesting editor noted, there are a whopping two reviews from notable/reliable publications listed at Mobygames: one from EGM, and the obligatory review in GamePro, who devoted a whole three sentences to the game. They also list a review from Video Games & Computer Entertainment, but I can't confirm its existence since I don't have any issues of that magazine. My researches have turned up next to nothing in the way of previews, development info, or after-market commentary. There just doesn't seem much significant coverage of this game.
Martin IIIa (
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15:46, 4 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: are sources like
these considered to be reliable for subjects like these or are they "too closely connected"? (as it's not a news site or magazine or anything) because otherwise I or someone else could expand it based on this source. --
Donald Trung (
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06:00, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you referring to the Mobygames page itself, or the sources it links to? Mobygames is unreliable because it uses user-submitted content, though it can be a helpful resource for finding reliable sources. Some of the sources linked from Mobygames are reliable and some are not;
WP:WikiProject Video games/Sources is a helpful guide.--
Martin IIIa (
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16:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)reply
See
WP:Existence ≠ Notability. I already addressed the Mobygames listing in my nomination (gotta love it when people vote on an AFD without reading why it's been nominated). Wikipedia's general notability guidelines are that the subject has been extensively covered by multiple notable/reliable sources, so the fact that I-War was reviewed by a grand total of two notable/reliable sources (again, one of which only allotted three sentences to the game), rather than proving I-War is notable, proves that it is not notable.--
Martin IIIa (
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15:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just to correct a frequent misconception: the GNG requires that coverage be "significant", not "extensive". Also, bad reviews contribute as much to notability as good ones.
Newimpartial (
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22:26, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Video Games & Computer Entertainment was apparently published as Video Games - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine from September 1993 to its end in mid-1996. Archive.org has a copy of the issue and the review appears on
page 88 with the associated 6 out of 10 score. I think this is a weak keep, given VG - TUGM, Atari HQ, EGM, and the three sentences in GamePro. --
Izno (
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01:42, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete -- these games are a dime a dozen; the article offers no sources and no encyclopedically relevant prose. Coverage offered above is of routine nature and does not amount to
WP:SIGCOV.
K.e.coffman (
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02:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
keep reviews aren't amazing (either the depth of review nor the ranking of this game) but meet WP:N. I'd prefer a merge into something like a more detailed
List of Atari Jaguar games given that these reviews all seem to lean more toward list-type reviews themselves.
Hobit (
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05:13, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep I know various magazines from the era that reviewed the title and more recent reviews by some notable online outlets that i plan to add to the article to make it more presentable for Wikipedia, that's one of my projects here on the site when it comes to the Jaguar. I really hate when people want to delete articles to the games related to the system so i say keep the article. I plan to expand it in the future. --
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13:08, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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The result was delete. Opinions are evenly split but the killer argument is the absence of a clear overview that apparently cannot be written without OR. Noone has really disputed that each Nordic country had a different experience of the war, which again argues that an overview article is unfeasible. Given this it feels like the votesbtgat best reflect the production of a quality encyclopaedia are the delete ones. The outcome would be different if there was prospect of a well supported overview.
SpartazHumbug!22:12, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Following an extensive debate on
the talk page, I argue the category "Nordic countries" is not sufficiently notable to justify an article on WWII. The WP convention is to approach the wartime history by country - and this is a logical category to use. Otherwise, there is a danger of multiple
content forks emerging (i.e. Balkans, Low Countries, Baltic States in WWII) besides the basic national articles. —Brigade Piron (
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11:27, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep the military history of the region esp re WW2 has been the subject of several scholarly and popular books in English (and many more in the Scandinavian languages)--eg: 1) Bohme, Klaus-Richard. he Defense Policies of the Nordic Countries, 1918-1939 (1979); 2) Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981); 3) Haarr, Geirr. The Gathering Storm: Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939 to April 1940 (US Naval Institute Press, 2013); 4) a scholarly article: Krosby, H. Peter. "The United States and the Nordic Countries, 1940-1945." Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire Ancienne (1982), Issue 53, pp 125-148; 5) Miller, James. The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War (2004); 6) Nissen, Henrik S. ed. Scandinavia during the Second World War (Nordic Series, number 9.) (University of Minnesota Press and Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. 1983)--published 25 years ago with scholars from six countries; 7) a scholarly survey: Vehvilainen, Olli. "Scandinavian Campaigns." in A Companion to World War II (2012) ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler and Daniel M. DuBois : vol 1 pp 208–21.-- plus the Nordic theatre gets well covered in overall surveys of WW2: 8) World War II: A Short History (Routledge 2015) by Michael J. Lyons = one full chapter (#6) out of 26 chapters. 9) half of chapter 3 in Max Hastings Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (2011); 10) all of ch 4 in World War II: A Compact History (1969, reprint 2017) by R. Ernest Dupuy.
Rjensen (
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12:16, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
3) Haarr's book deals with Norway and the North Sea, not with Finland. 5) Miller's book deals with the islands in the North Atlantic plus Norway, not with Finland or Sweden. — Erik Jr.14:37, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The opening sentence now reads: "Given their strategic locations regarding Britain and Russia, the Nordic countries in World War II were the targets of German conquest or control, along with the nearby islands, while the British tried to stop them." This sets the stage for the article and assumes that the scope is logical and notable. But it is not at all clear if this statement is true. Soviet union tried to conquer Finland, not Hitler. Finland approached Germany for military support and joined Germany against Soviet union. Denmark was swiftly occupied, but Britain did not try to stop the german army, and Denmark was primarily a stepping stone to Norway. Germany did not try to occupy Iceland. Germany did not even occupy Svalbard. There were certainly spillovers between these countries, for instance Norwegian refugees and "police forces" in Sweden, refugees from Finland to Sweden during the Lapland war, German retreat from Lapland through Finnmark, a Norwegian squadron in Iceland etc. But there is no coherent, shared story there to justify a separate article. --— Erik Jr.15:01, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Erik claims "there is no coherent, shared story." hed provides no RS to support his claim. That is not accepted by historians of the war who treat them together (see Lyons, Hastings, Dupuy) and by the governments themselves, of whom historian Nissen states: The governments of the four countries....have repeatedly emphasized the existence of Nordic cooperation and a common Nordic culture. They did so before the war; they did so during the war in so far as it was politically feasible; and they did so again after the war, when cooperation was institutionalized.Rjensen (
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23:12, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but it is the other way around. The article should present information from RS that justifies the article (beyond the obvious that they have shared borders and therefore some spillover is expected). I would add that presenting a general claim (such as "have repeatedly emphasized the existence of Nordic cooperation and a common Nordic culture") is not enough, the article should present specific information to support the claim ("show, don't tell"). This issue we pointed out in 2015 and the information is still missing. More importantly, the story that is still missing need to be a stronge one to justify departure from WP convention to tell WW2 history country by country. There are many regions or group of countries that are more natural or logical in the context of WW2, for instance Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, the Baltics, or Eastern Central Europe. --— Erik Jr.00:10, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. I agree with the main reason for the nomination. The "Nordic countries" is a geographic and political concept, but not sufficiently notable in the context of WW2. There are no strong reasons to depart from the WP convention to approach the wartime history country by country: These countries do not have a shared history during WW2 except for Denmark and Norway that is already covered in
Operation Weserübung.--— Erik Jr.14:26, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Userfy - The topic, as a topic, of the Nordic or Scandinavian theater in WWII is notable (per sources presented above, and readily available in BEFORE -
[5][6][7][8][9] - and is probably a better grouping than a per-country basis as the actions of the various countries up north was not detached. However, the article quality here is lower than the per-country articles at the moment - hence the userfy !vote.
Icewhiz (
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13:42, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I don't agree that the Nordic countries is a better grouping. As mentioned previously the history of the Nordic countries during WW2 is very different. Look at the opening statement ("Nordic" removed) that sets the stage for the article: ".... were the targets of German or Russia conquest or control...." This is true for all European countries, including Britain, and Poland in particular. It is true that the "the actions of the various countries up north was not detached", but it is also the case for virtually European countries in WW2. For instance: Allied troops were pulled out of Narvik because of German advance in France. Except for Weserübung developments in these countries were not particularly related. If you look closely at the early stages of the war most countries on the continent were more related, for instance German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia was related to the invasion of Poland, the German invasion of Belgium was related to the invasion of France. Life during the war was also quite different. During the final stages of the war, for instance the liberation of Bohemia was related to allied victory in Berlin, the liberation of Denmark was part of the German capitulation in NW Germany etc. So the point is that each Nordic country is a different story, in particular Finland with its unique story. Grouping the Nordics is much more artificial than similar groupings of countries on the continent. — Erik Jr.15:26, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just to add: Scandinavia and the Nordics are not the same. If we take Iceland and Finland out of the equation (and Orkeneys of course), the scope of the article makes more sense. — Erik Jr.15:42, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Icewhiz' indicate "not detached" as a criteria for grouping, this is a weak criteria as already mentioned as most European countries were related. And it is not clear what "actions of the various countries" means. Iceland (then part of Denmark) and Denmark did not do anything, they were very passive, so it is not clear how their actions should be judged. — Erik Jr.15:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I strongly disagree that a per country history is the best way to organize. It actually isn't the way most historians work (unless in a vary national setting). Countries themselves shift quite a bit - what was once independent gets subjugated or merged or split. Treating the Baltics, for instance, as we do in
German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II is quite straightforward. The Baltics in WWII all faces the same fate and really had little variation between themselves (as temporary
Buffer states between WWI and WWII - modern sensibilities for post-Soviet independence aside - frankly most history text prior to 1990 made little separation between them). Treating the Nordics as a group is not a "bad thing" - and it is done externally to Wikipedia. In terms of Wikipedia policy - if this is treated as a topic by scholars, so can we.
Icewhiz (
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16:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Loads of info on WP is organized by country, and I agree that in many cases that is not the best way. But on WP we do both things, for instance we have articles on identifiable battles and operations (such as
Weserübung that covers more than one country), and we have articles for countries during wars for instance
Norway in World War II, the same information is found in separate articles. In the case of the Nordics, country is clearly be basic level of analysis because all countries were basically intact as sovereign states and public administration continued operation within existing borders even under occupation. Even if Sweden cooperated with Germany (transfer of troops for instance), the German occupants respected Swedish sovereignty (so 2 meters across the border Norwegians were basically safe). Germany treated Norway as one country in military and civilan affairs (for instance
Reichskommissariat Norwegen), same for Denmark. So, given that individual Nordic countries stand out as the natural unit, there must be strong reasons to add yet another level. Events or plans that included more than one country are already covered in articles on Weserübung,
Plan R 4,
Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive etc., and it is not clear what is the value added of repeating information from these articles. --— Erik Jr.18:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Is it a bad thing to treat the Nordics as a group in relation to WW2? Yes, perhaps. When we create an article about X on WP we also say that "X is something", so this article may give the impression WW2 in the Nordic area was one thing, but quite the opposite is true. So we should be careful not to impose a perspective on the material, for instance the phrase "Attention turned to the Nordic theater." was added to the article without reference. On the
talkpage I have already commented on the sources cited as evidence. For instance Stenius etal (Stenius, H., Österberg, M. and Östling, J., eds. Nordic Narratives of the Second World War) is a collection of essays about WW2 seen from each of the Nordic countries, it is not about the Nordic countries as one Theatre of War. --— Erik Jr.19:11, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Crime and Control in Scandinavia During the Second World War edited by Takala (also published in Norwegian, 1987), is also collection of research papers from each of the Nordic (except Iceland). This is also typical for much of the literature: The heading is "Nordic ...." or "Scandinavia ....", but the content is about individual countries. --— Erik Jr.19:37, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
comment It is NOT true that the WP convention to approach the wartime history country by country. We have
Latin America during World War II,
Pacific War [[European Theatre of World War II and [[Middle East Theatre of World War II The Nordic region was explicitly treated as a unit by the British and the French, as the article explains regarding the planned Norway invasion in 1940. Furthermore the RS state and are quoted saying that the Nordic countries considered themselves a common unit before, during and after the war.
Rjensen (
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13:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The Second World War was, by definition, global in scope. It is conventional to divide it into regions or theatres such as the Mediterranean or Eastern Front and these typically involve several countries. The basis of the nomination is therefore false. In any case, there are obvious
alternatives to deletion which are preferred by our
editing policy.
Andrew D. (
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19:05, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
As a minimum I think this article should temporarily be taken out of the mainspace, until most content issues are resolved. — Erik Jr.19:20, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Is there a Nordic region? Did it matter as a region in WW2? Erik has based his argument on a false premise--that Wikipedia has a secret policy against regional articles re WW2. His claim is refuted by major Wiki articles such as
Latin America during World War II and
Pacific War and
European Theatre of World War II and
Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II. All historians of the war cover the Norway campaign of 1940 --often giving it a whole chapter. Rightly so because the military planners in Britain and France as well as their political leaders such as Churchill and Reynaud treated the region as a whole, and had a coordinated action that involved simultaneous warfare involving Finland, Norway, Sweden and USSR (and also two Danish possessions) all in order to win an economic war that would ruin the Germany economy. They had a region-wide perspective -- as historians have recognized. Butler in Grand Strategy says he deals with "Allied operations in Scandinavia" (p 92) -- Erik assumes the Allied planners of WW2 had separate plans for each country. No they had integrated plans for the entire region simultaneously. As did Germany at the same time and the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway together on the same day not separately, while fighting off the British navy. Furthermore Berlin made diplomatic deals with USSR, Finland and Sweden to support their control of Scandinavia. The Allied and German plans can not be handled country by country the way Erik demands because the war planners thought in terms of controlling the Nordic region not in separate plans for each separate nation. It's the same with the
European Theatre of World War II when Allied and German planners envisioned the region as a whole rather than a discrete set of separate units. It's well known how German delays in helping Italy in the Balkans in early 1941 delayed its invasion of Russia. Regions matter more than national boundaries in winning a world war. Indeed, Germany and USSR abolished Baltics/Poland/Czechoslovakia as independent countries, created brand new countries, and redrew national boundaries to suit their larger war plans.
Rjensen (
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23:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Rjensen: Please stop the mindereading, stop making assumptions about what I think and assume. Focus on facts and issues, please, this discussion is not about me. — Erik Jr.23:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
"Erik assumes the Allied planners of WW2 had separate plans for each country." Where did I present this assumption? Please stop misquoting me. --— Erik Jr.18:29, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Rjensen wrote:"Is there a Nordic region?" Again, you are misrepresenting the arguments I gave. Nobody question the idea of a Nordic region (although only after WW2 the Nordic cooperation was formally established) and geographical proximity is obvious. So can you please stop using unfair rhetorical devices? --— Erik Jr.18:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: Let us take a step back and forget the details for a moment. I think the key question is: What is the value added of having one more (intermediate) geographical level of analysis? If this level of analysis did not function as a unit, the additional level of analysis will merely be an aggregation of information from articles about countries. So the question if or to what degree were the Nordics a unit during WW2. The answer I would say is a «no» with regard to actual events (as been demonstranted clearly in the discussion above), except perhaps in allied, Soviet and German plans. The Nordics did not act as a unit, they were not invaded as one, they were not liberated as one etc., and the countries/sovereign states remained intact. So the shared history for the whole region exists at best only as plans made by the major powers. The danger of having a separate article is giving the impression that the region was quite unified when it is was not. So the reason for such an article that remains is a way to organize information. The key question: Is it useful to organize or aggregate information at one more level? Perhaps, but I am not convinced: Overviews are found in several articles already with links to articles with details. So the article is redundant and we risk fragmenting content. --— Erik Jr.00:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
it's a puzzling comment about "giving an impression" Wikipedia's job is to tell what happened and that is done here, no matter what prior impressions people had. The Allies and the Germans both made plans for the region- and they ACTED on the region in accord with their plans--which were all based on Nordic region as a unit. The Allies failed militarily in 1940 and the Germans won, and that victory shaped the entire war years. The Nordics in fact acted as a unit before the war in setting up a neutrality front--they were quite unified. The ww2 experience gave them a strong shared memory that still persists. They did not go separate ways before, during or after the war, according to Nissen. Furthermore historians writing the overall history of WW2 typically them as a unit. I wonder if Erik admits that has abandoned his original claim that Wikipedia has a policy against regional articles in ww2.
Rjensen (
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04:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Again: Please stop focusing on persons, the discussion is not about what I must "admit". And you are not quoting me correctly: I said there is a convention, I never claimed that there is (a secret) "policy". Comparison to South America is also unfair as that is a continent, and far from the battlefields.
"...historians writing the overall history of WW2 typically them as a unit..." Some historians perhaps, but to present this as typical is inaccurate. "The ww2 experience gave them a strong shared memory that still persists." - this is also quite inaccurate, Norway and Denmark yes, as occupied countries, Norway and Sweden yes because of the long porous border; Finland and Denmark had completely different experiences during the war, Denmark was one of the places to spend the war. --— Erik Jr.18:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep: A
quick search on Google Books verges clearly onto the side that there is notability in considering the Nordics/Scandinavia as a separate geographical/regional unit during WW2. For example, "Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy" (2013), "Nordic Narratives of the Second World War" (2011), "Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940" (2002), "The Nordic Countries in the Early Cold War, 1944-51" (2011) and "Crime and Control in Scandinavia During the Second World War" (1989). It doesn't really matter what wikipedians think is artificial or if the countries had totally different experiences during the war; instead notability is conveyed from what RS discuss about.
Manelolo (
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11:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Likewise: "The experiences of the First World War, in which the High Seas Fleet had been condemned to inactivity in the dead North Sea, led to early ideas of securing the Nordic region for the battle against British supply lines." (German S-Boats in Action in the Second World War, 2007); "The five Nordic countries emerged from World War II in widely differing ..." (The Nordic balance since the war, 2008); "World War II and its aftermath was of course the event that shaped Nordic Cold War security policy." (Nordic Defense in the Post Cold War Era, 1995); "THE Nordic area has often seemed to be the quiet corner of Europe. This perception harks back to the era between the Napoleonic War and World War II, when Europe was the cockpit of the world and Central Europe and the Balkans provided the military and diplomatic battlegrounds for the great powers — with the Nordic states only rarely being involved, let alone being of importance." (The Nordic region, changing perspectives in international relations, 1990)
I mean, at this stage it is starting to be quite irrefutable that Nordic/Scandinavia is a notable entity by itself in World War II talk.
Manelolo (
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15:29, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The sources you mention has already been discussed as mostly irrelevant to the issue. For instance "Nordic Narratives of the Second World War" are merely a collection of essays about WW2 in these countries, not about the Nordic region as a unit. --— Erik Jr.18:32, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Even if that argument stands, a few sources above discuss the Nordics/Scandinavia as a clear unit already. And this is only with a very quick search scraping the surface. "... of securing the Nordic region for the battle against British ..." and "THE Nordic area has often seemed to be the quiet corner of Europe."
Manelolo (
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21:17, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Even if some sources mention the Nordics as an entity, the article (current version) does not show how it was an entity. There were no facts on the ground that support the claim: Finland was fighting wars with the Soviet union and there was nothing particularly Nordic about that war. The attempt to tell a story about the Nordics in WW2 is largley artificial. For instance the opening sentence: "The Nordic countries in World War II, given their strategic locations in relation to Britain, Germany and Russia, were the targets of German or Russia conquest or control." This statement does not justify the scope of the article at all, the statement is largley empty or meaningless, because this statement is true for virtually all countries affected by the war or the statement is so inaccurate that it is not informative. For instance it is misleading to say that Finland had a strategic location in relation to Britain, and Sweden did not have a strategic location although some strategic resources. Iceland was not the target of German conquest, Germany did not even occupy Svalbard. In fact Falkenhorst admitted that the German navy was overstretched in April 1940 and was not able to control all relevant ports in Norway leaving Åndalsnes, Namsos, Harstad, Tromsø and Bodø open to allied landing. Iceland was of course of strategic interest to Germany, but if the german navy could not control the Norwegian coast how could they capture Iceland? In the current version the article hardly provides any information beyond what is found in articles on each country. The additional information the article claims to provide is misleading or inaccurate. --— Erik Jr.14:05, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but the claim that the Nordics was "a distinct theatre of conflict" is not supported. The major powers made plans, but the actual events do not support this claim. — Erik Jr.18:34, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
My country was invaded by Germany, along with a long list of other European countries. The Nordic countries are well defined, but this definition was institutionalized several years after the war. But the discussion is not about the definition of an area, the question is if it can be regarded as a unit during WW2 (for instance as one theater of war). As a region of Europe we can of course use the Nordic as a way to summarize unrelated information. Except some vague statements the article is currently merely a summary of information from other articles. --— Erik Jr.13:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The Kalmar Union between 1397 - 1523.
@
Erik Jr. - The
Nordic countries had shared rulers and treaties and cultural ties as early as 800AD, some 1200 years ago. The entire region was united during the 15th century under the
Kalmar Union, a 120 year period where Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland and Iceland were all ruled by the same 'federal' government with a shared monarch. The fact a new union was established after WWII in no way means this was the first union, the nordic region has been well defined since the early medieval period.
Prince of Thieves (
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14:16, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
To quote a researcher from Finland, although this is widely held in academica: As archaeological and historical sources testify, the present-day Nordic region was gradually interwoven into a tight network of economical, social, cultural, and political exchange ever since the Early Middle Ages. The most long-lasting political constellation was the Kalmar Union (1397–1523) that united Denmark (including present-day Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland) and Sweden (including the southwestern parts of present-day Finland). In a more recent era, common historical structures and institutions such as a uniform Lutheran state-church, the highly centralized state, the agrarian, pragmatic character of “Nordic Enlightenment,” and the relative freedom and early political participation of the land-owning peasants have been emphasized as elements that have left their strong imprint on Nordic people’s everyday experiences and mentalities (See e.g. GÖTZ 2003a, p. 328–331; STENIUS 2003, p. 21–23; HILSON 2008, p. 11–17)[1]
References
^Jalava, Marja. "The Nordic countries as a historical and historiographical region: Towards a critical writing of translocal history." História da historiografia 11 (2013): 244-264.
We agree that the region is relatively well defined, something that happened 500 years ago does not change the key question: Was this one well defined theater of war? If the answer is no, the article is merely an agglomeration of information already contained in other articles - that can be OK (even if redundant), but then we should not give the impression that there is one unifying story. The framing of the article is artifical and the things that do in fact connected these countries during WW2 are hardly mentioned. --— Erik Jr.14:42, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: The main issue: To use the Nordic region as level of analysis to summarize existing information is OK (although redundant and largely artificial in my opinion). There has been some recent changes of the article to make the region look more "united" than it really was (the article should not make the impression that the Nordic region was one theatre of war, because it was not). Except for a mere summary of events, the only substantive justifications for the article are (1) the major powers viewed the region as one and made plans accordingly, so these plans can be a topic within the article (this is still not well covered in the article) and (2) events in separate countries were connected through cooperation or spillover (this is still missing from the article, except for the winter war) for instance: transport of German troops through Sweden, evacuation of jews to safety in Sweden, Norwegian exiles in Sweden and preparation for liberation, the Lapland war and the scorching of Finnmark, etc. In short: The article now does well on things that are redundant, while the things that could make it a relevant article is missing. Instead of trying to build a case about a shared history, the introduction should be honest and specific about the events that did actually connect these countries. — Erik Jr.19:20, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Erik keeps saying that there REALLY was not a theatre of war that can be called Nordic or Scandinavian. That's his private opinion--he has given zero RS that agree, He ignores the general histories that give a chapter to this theater. He ignores RS that explicitly name it for example: Christopher Chant (2013).
The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II. Taylor & Francis. p. 489.. 2) Already in
1939 the term was used shown here; 3) Germans used it: "n the far north the capitulation of Finland had rendered untentable the advanced German positions in the Scandinavian theater of operations" [ Von Luttichau - 1960]; 4) military historians use it: Earl F. Ziemke, The German Northern Theater of Operations, 1940-1945 (Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1960); 5) An excellent advanced guide to the historiography: "Chapter 13: Scandinavian Campaigns. The countries of North Europe were important to the great powers in the war because of their geostrategic location." Thomas W. Zeiler ed (2012).
A Companion to World War II. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 276–. {{
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help)Rjensen (
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03:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, again the point is to show that it was something, not the "prove" the negative. There are no facts to support the claim the Nordic area was one
Theater (warfare): No fighting occurred across borders within the Nordic area and all borders were intact. If we compare this to the events in central europe the differnce is striking: France, Poland and Czechoslovakia were broken up, fighting rolled back and forth across continental Europe irrespective of boundaries. Finland's borders changed and fighting took place over a wide area across the border, but this was a war with the Soviet union and eventually became part of the eastern front, there was nothing particularly Nordic about Finland's wars with the Soviet, the theater of war was in fact the eastern front. --— Erik Jr.13:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Re Operation Stratford: This was british plan as part of wider plan to take control of the Scandinavian penninsula, where the real target was Kiruna and the iron ore railway (
no:Operation Avonmouth) and support for Finland was largely a pretext. Rjensen again makes impolite remarks that I ignore things. I am of course perfectly aware of plans developed by germans and allies, and I have repeatedly mentioned that there was perhaps an idea of a Scandinavian theater in these plans. But the article gives the impression that the military events made the area into a single theater for war. If you want to keep the article you must rewrite the article to reflect these facts according to sources. — Erik Jr.14:32, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I disagree, no one is obligated to improve the article and possible content inaccuracies are not a deletion reason. You literally say in that comment that the British had a wider plan to take control of the region, and it's already been established that war plans were made by both sides that considered the region as a whole, and this is discussed widely in academia in terms of the "nordic region" and occasionally also the roughly equivalent "scandinavian region", not only in the text, but also in the titles of books and scholarly research. It is clear that the Nordic region is defined, was considered a theatre of war (in the war-plans) and has been treated as a supranational region by subsequent academics, therefore this article is valid and meets
WP:GNG. The actual content in the article currently is not relevant, tat is a cleanup/content issue. The concept of the article is sound, so there is no valid reason for deletion.
Prince of Thieves (
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14:40, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Again, there were plans that involved several countries in the area, we dont disagree in that regard. "...the British had a wider plan to take control of the region" - no, Britain did not plan to control the entire region, but there were plans to take control of Kiruna and the iron railway, with support for Finland as a pretext (Operation Avonmouth). Operation Stratford was a planned operation to support Avonmouth, a preemptive action in case Germany tried to invade Scandinavia. — Erik Jr.14:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
To add: On Norwegian WP there is a gentlemen's agreement that those who vote to keep an article of insufficient quality are also (morally) obliged to improve it to an acceptable level, this is a version of TNT. Several contributors in 2015 noted the issues with this article, only in 2018 there has been some improvments, but a lot is still missing. --— Erik Jr.15:33, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
(edit conflict) Apply TNT i.e. start again. The subject is clearly an important one, but this is a horrid article, where most of the content has disappeared into more detailed articles. Furthermore, the experience of different countries is so different that it is going to require an academic author to know sufficient to be able to provide a thorough overview. This is something the present article singularly fails to do. Denmark and Norway were conquered; Finland has wars with USSR, sometimes with the support of Germany. Sweden stayed neutral. The Baltic Republics were overrun by Germany then USSR. Atlantic island possessions were occupied by UK (or USA) to keep the Germans out. This is all highly disparate, so that producing a synthesis that is not a series of separate articles on each country is not a job for an amateur, which is what many WP editors are. I will include myself in that, as this branch of history is not my special subject.
Peterkingiron (
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15:03, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Indeed, I agree that it is possible to write an acceptable article about WW2 in the Nordics, but is difficult to make an overview or synthesis because of the differences between these countries. But the article should add something, if not there is no reason to keep in my opinion. So perhaps TNT or move to a userpage until it is substantially improved. — Erik Jr.15:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I mostly agree. I applied some TNT, leaving only the lead section. I am not adverse to a better article being built from this, inclusive of selective restoration from the deleted content. But again, this is a content issue and not a reason for deletion.
Prince of Thieves (
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16:07, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Some users were trying to fix it (me and Rjensen, a keep vote) while another just TNT'd it (Prince of Thieves, also a keep vote). Therefore, I'm not convinced this article is of any use to anybody. Kill it. We have the topic covered in other articles. In 2018 we do not need half-assed stubby 'overview' articles.
Srnec (
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17:19, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - TNT situation. The article is not worth saving; I think the topic, structured properly, would pass muster for inclusion, but the amorphous title of this makes this a duplication of existing content elsewhere.
Carrite (
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18:17, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete (Without prejudice to recreation). I am not convinced any of the existing or former content is usable, being entirely country specific content with no intergration or overview. I have no objections to deletion according to TNT. However this should not stand as a barrier to later recreation by anyone who can actually do the subject justice. This is because I still think the topic itself is valid.
Prince of Thieves (
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18:24, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - while there is a valid TNT argument (moreso after 75% of the article was recently deleted), my vote is not per TNT. This is inherently
WP:SYNTH. Norway was occupied by Germany, Sweden was neutral, and Finland warred with the Soviets more than the Germans. There might be a case for an article specifically on the historiography, but even the references such as "Nordic Narratives of the Second World War" generally say each have "differing narratives".
power~enwiki (
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18:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep While Scandinavia was not a distinct theater, there are plenty of references here that refer to the Nordic area/Scandinavia as a noteworthy distinct location for military activity - for instance: Bayer, James A. "The Scandinavian Flank As History, 1939-1940" (1984): Vehvilainen, Olli. "Scandinavian Campaigns." in A Companion to World War II (2012) ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler : vol 1 pp 208–21.: Nissen, Henrik S. ed. Scandinavia during the Second World War (Nordic Series, number 9.)Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981). Given this, these seem to substantiate it as having its own distinct character. Also considering how other countries got involved, in their neighbour's situations (in particular Sweden in Finland and Norway), given the close relations between Nordic countries.
Deathlibrarian (
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01:52, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: Several reliable sources discuss the Nordic region in the context of WW2 and all Nordic countries were involved in the war. If the Nordic region, according to sources, can and should be regarded as one distinct theatre of war, then it should be relatively straightforward to write a summary based on scholarly sources. So far, this account for a Nordic theatre of war is missing from the article, accordingly this justification for the topic is also missing. — Erik Jr.22:31, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A combination of synthesized and original research rather than actual sourcing covering the collective topic as a single significant notable subject. Erik Jr lays it out well too.--
Yaksar(let's chat)08:10, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I was under the impression notability was established, and the rationale for deletion is based mainly on the validity of an overview article which supplies no overview. And partly on whether it is worth trying at all.
Prince of Thieves (
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09:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Notability as something distinct (a distinct theater of war) is not established (or still disputed). But I guess it is easier to reach consensus on lack of validity or value of a supposed overview article that does not provide overview. Per now the article does not add value, if nobody is able or willing to fix it then delete. — Erik Jr.17:49, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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This is a one-sentence sub-stub which has been tagged for lack of references for eight months and nobody's bothered to find any sources. It was brought to AfD by @
TheGracefulSlick: at which point I noticed it and tried to save everybody some time by
WP:A7-ing it. But, based on the number of complaints that people have left on my talk page, I guess folks just want to spend the next week arguing about this, so I've restored it and brought it back here. --
RoySmith(talk)20:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
This is no longer the one-sentence sub-stub I originally took objection to, and people have found some sources, so striking that. I'm neutral on whether the newly found sources are sufficient. --
RoySmith(talk)21:22, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
delete There are papers in Manchu studies, but we need an article that says something more about it than that people do this sort of research. At the moment we're stuck at a
WP:DICTDEF.
Mangoe (
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Mangoe (
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18:10, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Merge to either
Sinology or
Mongolian studies (deliberately avoiding an opinion on exactly which, because I can see a can of worms there). There would appear to be enough information to merge to one or the other of those places - the latter is the shorter article, if that's any help - but seemingly not enough for a standalone article itself.
BigHaz -
Schreit mich an05:49, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep now that the article has been expanded. One of the sources used is the "Manchu studies" entry in the BRE (the big Russian print encyclopedia), and there are plenty of sources around, so questions of standalone notability are moot. Neither of the two proposed merge targets are remotely suitable (and I agree that there's a can of worms if we decided to go that way). –
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(Delete) Regardless of whether the topic is valid or not, we should not host poorly sourced articles about the recruitment methods of proscribed terrorist groups. I would say ISIL/ISIS/whatever has used social media to a much greater extent than any group before them. But whether this fact requires any acknowledgement beyond a short paragraph in
Terrorism and social media which Iridescent identified is another matter.
Prince of Thieves (
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20:28, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. Highly notable topic covered in depth in news and academia (and yes, IS is quite distinct social media wise in relation to AQ - contributing to their recruiting sucess) Not a content fork of
Terrorism and social media which barely covers IS. Title caps should be changed to Wiki standards (which are different from the standard outside of wiki). Article is not an ESSAY, and is not close to TNT. Being created as a wikied project is not grounds for deletion (and it actually usually means someone actually reviewed it for a grade). Wikilinking this into the project would not be difficult. Sourcing in the article is pretty good. Unless an actual fork is identified (and even then the correct call may ge merge) there are no grounds for deletion.
Icewhiz (
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20:38, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep There is significant coverage relating specifically to ISIS use of social media. For example: This showed up in my inbox today:
The page, as it stands, is pretty poor and I seriously doubt that the media makes the distinction between ISIS, affiliates, AQ and their spin offs etc but there is enough material out there relating to ISIS social media strategy and the people who execute that strategy to sustain an article on this topic.
Jbh Talk22:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - The article does need more content, yet the subject is certainly notable. ISIS at its peak power was intensely covered by the press along with its modus operandi - including its recruitment methods which included social media. The formatting of the title of the article does need to be changed though.
Knox490 (
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02:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep and NUKE As this stands, it warrants deletion on the basis of what is written as the content is pretty much atrocious, however the topic is quite noteworthy and covered by multiple RS. We should keep the article, but remove most of the junk and replace it with some high or passable quality material.
Elektricity (
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04:13, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep valuable coverage of a relevant, important, and widely discussed topic. Improving the article shouldn't be hard at all given the widespread RS and expert coverage. No this must not be subsumed under just "Terrorism and Social Media"--
Calthinus (
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05:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep without doubt this is a significant and valid topic. It is supported by solid sources, but, and more importantly, there is an enormous amount of sourcing available on this topic. Here's a google search on article title, The Usage of Social Media by The Islamic State:
[11]. The fact that article has room for improvement/expansion is not an argument for deletion.
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10:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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Fails
WP:NASTRO. No popular coverage. The only technical publication is the announcement of "275 CANDIDATES AND 149 VALIDATED PLANETS ...", so just one of many. No secondary or tertiary sources at all.
Lithopsian (
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19:40, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
So why keep
K2-187c and and want to delete only K2-187b?
I didn't say I wanted to keep
K2-187c. Seems about as (non-) notable as K2-187b. 10:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
They all look to me to be in the same boat: they exist, but nothing to meet
WP:NASTCRIT. Just my opinion, but it seems like pretty poor taste to create all these articles while this discussion is ongoing. I would be happy to see them all included within this discussion, but adding them retrospectively feels a bit dodgy.
Lithopsian (
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14:25, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I added a page for K2-187b and K2-187c because of the system’s unique architecture (K2-187 is the only star with 3 other planets so close to a planet orbiting less than 20 hours). Also, I’ve been analyzing this system since May 2017, and by September I had found the candidates that would become K2-187b and e (as well as a fifth potential candidate that wasn’t mentioned by Mayo et al). My findings are all on Exoplanet Explorers.
ProtoJeb21 9:55, 28 February 2018 (EST)
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WP:BLP of an academic, who has a valid potential notability claim but lacks the
reliable source coverage needed to properly support it. The only "references" here are his
primary source staff profiles on the websites of the institutions where he teaches, and I can't find any independent coverage of him anywhere else: on a ProQuest search, what I actually get is a lot of hits on a country singer who should rightly be
primary topic for this name (thus explaining why an anonymous IP filed this in ‹The
templateCategory link is being
considered for merging.›Category:Canadian country singer-songwriters earlier today, and why two of the five inbound links here are expecting a country singer). And if I search "Marcel Martel -country" to filter the singer out, I do find a few glancing namechecks of the historian's existence as a provider of soundbite, but no coverage about him: even in the narrower search, he's still vastly outnumbered by a former mayor of
Jonquière, a mafia hitman, and a convicted spousal abuser. (Those are three distinct people, just to clarify.) I just can't find the depth of coverage about him that would be required to get him an encyclopedia article, and academics don't get a free exemption from having to be referenced just because their own university faculty profiles verify that they exist.
Bearcat (
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19:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep -- Meets
WP:NPROF Criterion 3 5 as the holder of a named chair at
York University, which is by any measure a major university. Furthermore, most of the guy's impact seems to be via his scholarship in French, so the google searches described above may have missed much of it. A scholar search turns up some well-cited monographs, and google searches for him in French reveal a great deal of coverage.
192.160.216.52 (
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20:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's a bit beside the point, but after skimming some of the sources above I don't think that the singer should be the primary topic either. Martel seems to be a highly influential historian. I've just created a stub at
Marcel Martel (musician). If kept, I'd suggest this article be moved to
Marcel Martel (historian) and we create a disambiguation page for the two. –
Joe (
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Keep inappropriate nomination. Subject is a high profile government official who has received very substantial coverage in teliavle independent sources.
FloridaArmy (
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20:15, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep Satisfies
WP:POLITICIAN for "Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office" and "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." She has also receieved "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article" to satisfy
WP:GNG.
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Apparently not notable by our standards, does not meet
WP:ARTIST. It seems she has had at least one exhibition at the Agora Gallery. I can find no news coverage whatsoever (perhaps because Kapoor is a common surname, and one
very famous artist has it). This was
a much longer article until I started removing some fairly fanciful unreferenced content, and a number of sources that were either patently unreliable or did not mention her at all. I stopped when there were just two "sources" left. They are: "Art Galleries Europe", an on-line selling site where
for €100 a year you can list up to fifteen artworks for sale, where she is listed as "Olivier Kapoor"; and the
Global Art Awards site, which apparently does not mention her at all.
Justlettersandnumbers (
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19:03, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete vanity page: no RS In article and none found elsewhere. There is really only one Kapoor who is well known in the arts, and it is not this one. Olivia is more of a niche Kapoor. Non-notable, obviously.
104.163.148.25 (
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03:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete No secondary sources to indicate notability. Appears to be a vanity project, created by an editor who has written little else.
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This is the third iteration of the article, deleted once A7 and once G11. Coverage already provided seems to be either of
dubious reliability,
coverage in the local paper, or
coverage in the local paper on sites of dubious reliability. Admittedly, they've made it in the Birmingham Mail at least three times, but three mentions in your local paper does not make notability. The claim that they've been on
the BBC seems to boil down more to a claim that they've uploaded a youtube video to a BBC site that hosts youtube videos.
Besides that fairly obviously either an autobiography or created by some other type of COI account with fairly promotional language throughout. Most of the content that might indicate notability re: winning international competitions, I didn't find anything to back up really other than this Wikipedia article, so they appear to be either made up, or apparently not important enough to warrant coverage in secondary sources.
GMGtalk18:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak deleteI was unsure about this, there does appear to be some limited mentions, and maybe there is more. Not helped by this
[40] (knew I recognized the name).
Slatersteven (
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19:07, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's not even clear that's the same person. There is apparently someone by the same name associated with
Raspberry Pi, who all things considered, might not be notable, but seems like they may be more notable.
GMGtalk19:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I am not saying that the Rugby player is the saem person (sorry if my point was not clear) what I was saying is that there is more then one Ben Nuttall and this complicates trying to verify notability.
Slatersteven (
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20:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
My bad. I dunno. When you just search for the name you get a ton of unrelated stuff, when you search for the name plus related phrases you get nearly nothing, and then only local coverage. At least the bit about "10 thousand fans on social media and over 1 million lifetime views" appears to be an outright lie, given
600 Twitter followers and
~3000 views on YouTube. Given that, and what appears to be a total lack of sources available, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other unsourced claims are also fabricated.
GMGtalk20:24, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete I don't think you can even apply NFooty here Giant, I think this straight down to, does he pass GNG, I'd say No. The article feels self written, and not enough independent citations for me.
Govvy (
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14:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Hey
Szzuk. It wasn't AFAIK accepted through AfC, but was created both as an article in mainspace and as an AfC draft, and the histories of the two were then merged.
GMGtalk20:01, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete although it looks like this is actually a not yet approved AfC submission, so is this a sort of preemptive action, on the basis of the fact that AfC is set up so that the articles do not meet the same scrutiny as when they are actually created, as we have seen from recent cases where articles that had been deleted and salted were still approved through AfC.
John Pack Lambert (
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16:29, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak delete fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NFOOTBALL. However, we should consider Draftifying, perhaps he might perform in a major avent soon.
Avaay
Maybe you'll forgive us if we're a touch suspicious of an account whose first edit was to add several userboxes about how much featured content they have contributed to?
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Delete. Voice actor with no evidence of notability. The nominator has not advanced a reason and inexplicably placed a db-author speedy deletion tag on this page at the same time. If the nominator no longer wishes to support deletion, then please consider me to be the nominator.
SpinningSpark18:25, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Refs are youtube, blogs, etc, nothing to indicate notability. I googled and looked on news, nothing i can see.
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Delete. I'm not 100% convinced that he shouldn't qualify as notable, but regardless, he was overwhelmingly rejected as non-notable less than a year ago and this article shouldn't have been re-created so soon.
Orser67 (
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18:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - almost there, but not quite enough for
WP:PROF. (E.g. if he was editor of one of those journals he would qualify, but he is merely on the editorial board.)
StAnselm (
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18:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
As was established last time, having published a book that was reviewed does not make one notable. The fact that you re-created a deleted article not once, but twice, indicates that you likely have no objectivity on this matter. Chris Troutman (
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I think if there were multiple reviews each of multiple books, it would make the subject notable per
WP:AUTHOR. But a newly published book and another one in the works, without reviews yet, are not enough. —
David Eppstein (
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21:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. I'm not seeing any significant changes since the last AfD. Publishing a book is nowhere near enough to get an academic past
WP:PROF. We would be looking for multiple lengthy reviews and/or significant impact on the field. I'm sure Park's American Nationalisms is a fine work, but as it was published just three months ago, it's unlikely to have either.
As a general rule, assistant professors are very rarely found to be notable, so @
Hodgdon's secret garden:, if you are interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of Mormon scholars, I would start with people higher up the academic career ladder. I'm not convinced we have a systemic bias there, but it wouldn't hurt. –
Joe (
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21:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete.There's only one book by a major academic publisher of research-level books. Norton is primarily a publisher of text books and general interest books (for evidence see its website
[41]). Furthermore, the source given for it is just the subject's own blog, and it only says a contract for it was signed, and admits that the book is only half written, not finished, and not finally accepted, and not published. Two actual published books by highest level publishers is the standard for tenure used by the most prestigious research universities in the humanities, (lower level ones tend to accept one book and a few papers). That's the level of distinction which indicates the person is not only influential in their field, but is expected to remain influential, and to remain sufficiently influential to be able to attract other first-rate scholars. I think it's fully enough to always meet WP:PROF unless there are other factors. One can't expect reviews until actual publication, but a book accepted by Cambridge University Press is certain to get such reviews -- the same sort of reasoning we use for major works in production by major companies artists and performers of various sorts. But the academic record is not yet sufficient for WP:PROF. It was not a wise decision to try the article again at this point in his career,. It would have had at least a chance if it had waited till the 2nd book was published and reviewed.
Joe Roe's advice to start at the top to increase the coverage of Mormon historians is just right. It's the right advice for any under-covered subject here. DGG (
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21:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
wp:PROF itself clearly says it does not in any way rein in
wp:GNG. What this guideline does is to provide a means to document notability in cases where a prominent academic lacks sufficient treatments within the mainstream media.
This blp subject's case clearly is not that he's reached advanced status within Academe but that he's obviously notable as an
wp:author owing his place within Mormon letters, as an essayist/public intellectual often sought out as an opinion maker, and because of his next book-length work of ostensibly "popular" history that's being acquired by, yes, the trade press Norton, which allows editors to presume this historian/author will gain even more notability in the near future. See
this article about historians and "mere"(?) trade presses (which Norton's not so shabby of one. From Norton's website):
"... The Nortons soon expanded their program...acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad and entering the fields of philosophy, music, and psychology, in which they published acclaimed works by Bertrand Russell, Paul Henry Lang, and Sigmund Freud (as his primary American publisher).
"... Since those early days, W. W. Norton & Company has consistently published books that reflect their social moment and resonate well beyond it. Some of the era-defining books published by Norton include The Feminine Mystique ... A Clockwork Orange ... Thirteen Days, Robert F. Kennedy’s firsthand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Present at the Creation, by Dean Acheson ... ; Liar’s Poker, which launched Michael Lewis’s decades-long chronicle of Wall Street’s greed and hubris; and The 9/11 Commission Report ....
The company...continues to print the work of some of the world’s most influential voices. Nobel Prize winners include Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Eric Kandel, Paul Krugman, Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz, and Harold Varmus; Pulitzer Prize winners include Dean Acheson, Jared Diamond, Rita Dove, John Dower, Stephen Dunn, Erik Erikson, Eric Foner, Annette Gordon-Reed, Stephen Greenblatt, Maxine Kumin, Joseph Lash, William McFeely, John Matteson, Edmund Morgan, and William Taubman.
"In recent decades, Norton’s national bestsellers have included books by Diane Ackerman, Andrea Barrett (also a National Book Award winner), Vincent Bugliosi, Andre Dubus III, Sebastian Junger, Michael Lewis, Nicole Krauss, Mary Roach, Jonathan Spence, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sean Wilentz, Edward O. Wilson, and Fareed Zakaria. ..."
Delete. Per the existing consensus, insufficient justification has been provided for why the last AfD shouldn't stand. Hodgdon's secret garden argued strenously for "Keep" in the first AfD, didn't like the result, and recreated the article 6 months later. They should be admonished at a minimum. The participants in the first AfD also ought to be pinged.
AbductiveXxanthippeJohnpacklambertBearianUhooepPeterkingironNarky_Blert (I am not
watching this page, so please
ping me if you want my attention.) --
Dr. Fleischman (
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22:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment. {{ping}} received. I have little to add to what I said last time round, except to say this. IMO 'Best Graduate Paper Award to Benjamin E. Park for "Early Mormonism and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America," written last year at the University of Cambridge' bears no relation to the
University of Cambridge. To me, as a Cambridge graduate, that claim rings all sorts of alarm bells. Notably, in UK we do not use "graduate" as an adjective. "Graduate Paper" makes no sense to me at all. Neither does that University award any such prize.
Narky Blert (
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23:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Narky (I mean Blert, per British usage), I accept ur assertion uv graduated from a college at Cambridge. Kudos and well wishes in whatsoever ur endeavors (which may be or end up quite substantial, despite ur seemingly habitual tone of a mere
crank.)--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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01:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Question to
User:Narky Blert: I'm just curious. Do folks at Cambridge use the word since to mean "because" or only in also its meaning of "after"?
The fact is, the blp subject got his M.Hist.-"with distinction", via his research, from Cambridge Univ. -- the one that's in England -- a few years back. Since Owing to the U.S. being kinda low rent, Yank academics with just such a degree (note that he already had a M.Sc. in historical theology from the Univ. of Edinburgh) routinely designate it as a "PhD"[!] when they return to the United States. And, instead of his doing what would be considered the stand-up thing and get a real academic job in the U.S., the bio's subject stays a grad. student (sorry for the usage of graduate as an adj. there) in Cambridge. But, he accepts a "post" under Brigham Young Univ. prof. Flueman, who'd been asked to start up a
review journal for the new subdiscipline of Mormon Sstudies at the Maxwell Institute. See
link for mention @ the Max. I. of awards given to both doctor Flueman for his first published book at the Univ. of N.Carolina Press and to our yeoman Park, twice that year, for a paper and an unpublished graduate paper, in the subdiscipline of Mormon letters/academics. Does that clear things up for you?
But, anyway, I may as well now go ahead and complete this story: While helping Flueman edit Mormon Studies Review (and writing a fair number of reviews of some academic press-published book that he publishes elsewhere than Mo.Stud.Rev.) the subject hangs around at your alma mater as a lecturer and supervisor in the history dept. while he earns a (sic; um /"another"? <shrugs>) doctorate, then takes a "named" visiting scholar gig at the U. of Missouri in the States. Then gets an assist. prof. post at Sam Houston State. By then, I mean now, he
has a dozen or so articles pubbed in peer-reviwed journals. His first book published at Cambridge Univ. Press.
Reply to question. @
Hodgdon's secret garden: A good and a fair question. In British English, "since" is sometimes a synonym for "because". "He fell over, since he had dropped his walking stick" (in U.S. English, "walking cane") is good British English. When I trained as a patent agent, I was taught never to write "since" except in relation to dates because of its ambiguity between different variants of the English language. (Note my refusal there to split an infinitive!)
As a reverse example, in British English "comprises" means "consists of". ("Beethoven's Opus 18 comprises six string quartets.") In patent law, "comprises" means "contains or consists of". In U.S. usage, it can more broadly mean "includes". U.S. usage also seems to have "comprises of", which is not British English and to me looks ugly.
In Wiki, I try to avoid constructions like those; and if I find them, to edit them to ones with which all English-speakers can agree.
Narky Blert (
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21:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. H-index is still in the single digits. Advocacy for a particular person (since I can't see how this is advocacy for an article with single digit page views) isn't sufficient. Abductive (
reasoning)23:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete.
WP:TOOSOON for this recent PhD (2014) assitant professor. Fails
WP:PROF. He does have some coverage -
[42][43][44][45][46][47][48] (some interviews, some mentions of his writings, Newsweek mentions a blog post by him) - however this does not rise up to
WP:SIGCOV/
WP:GNG. Looking at what he's doing it seem he will be notable sometime if he continues - but not at the moment.
Icewhiz (
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11:37, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Park clearly fails academic notability guidelines. Maybe after his two in progress books get published (assuming that ever happens) things will be different, but at this time no. I would have to say in general Wikipedia is faily good at having article on the main scholars of Mormon studies. How well written and comprehensive some of these articles are, on people like
David F. Holland or
Hugh Nibley is another question, but we have the articles on most of the truly major contributors. Park has yet to produce the significant level of articles and books to make him a truly major contributor, despite the criticisms of some of his ideas that have been lobbed by Hancock and Hamblin. This article too much relies on coverage of things where Park is an incidental, non-defining member of a large group of people, and also too heavily relies on quotes from Park's own work. None of it adds up to actual significant coverage of a level to pass the general notability guidelines. Response articles to a book review by an individual do not count as the type of substantial 3rd party coverage of that individual that consititutes indepth coverage for GNG purposes, and the rest we have that is indepdent 3rd party, like the Salt Lake Tribune articles on the reworking of the set up of the BYU Maxwell Incident say almost nothing about Park, basically they just name check his existence.
John Pack Lambert (
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23:43, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A prospective article needs two reliable sources specifically about it. That's it. There's no seperate tracks w rgd this profession or that. Ben Park has a half dozen articles that are reliable sources which are specific to agreeing with, putting nuance to, or countering his--without co-author--views. According to foundational principles of the project, Wikipedians should be encouraged to create articles as often as possible whenever that threshhold is met. That builds the project. Instead what we have is people who try to align Wikipedia with what goes on in the academy (see !votes above by
user:DGG and by
user:Johnpacklambert). Most simply put, if this blp subject was an author who was not an academic and there were half dozen articles in RS, by people with their own WP blp's no less, entirely devoted to taking up positions she champions (of which Johnpacklambert briefly alludes), such notoriety alone would guarantee notability. Instead, deletionist cabals hover around afd's who but glance at an article for two or three seconds blithely mumbling "not notable" or grabbing whatever acronym seems handy. (Um,
wp:TOOSOON says film/actors s without two specific media mentions aren't sufficiently notable; what's that got to do with a blog co-founder and author of essays, etc., sought out for quotes a number of times by the MSM, who's published a major book?) ...or their sniffing about good usages per the Fowler brothers or godknowswhatelse!--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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01:39, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A prospective article needs two reliable sources specifically about it. That's it. – how on earth did you come to that conclusion? To pass the
GNG, we need significant coverage, and JPL has eloquently explained why that threshold isn't met in this case.
WP:PROF provides an alternative set of criteria that is easier for academics to pass, because they are rarely the subject of significant biographical coverage. But unfortunately Park does not seem to meet that either. There is no conspiracy; we're just trying to apply fair and consistent standards for inclusion. –
Joe (
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11:47, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
OK,
user:Joe Roe, I'm game. My sense there exist deletionist cabals owes to my observations that so many glance-and-call-out-"delete" !votes become weighted w/in closings. Slam dunks to delete? Really?. Huh? My encapsulation of notability guidelines was pretty fair. But, fine, let us get more into the weeds then.
With a tip of my hat to the Bio's section @
wp:TOOSOON:
If the above is the criterion, how can ppl give a quick glance at Park's blp and come to "delete", after noting:
Citationd to themselves notable figures who address an in-depth intellectual thesis of Park's at great length in multiple reliable sources. This type of coverage is "trivial"? Says who!
Threshold #1 already met, fact is, WP editors are even given discretion to judge by gads of less-than-substantial sourcing (that are not merely trivial). What about the MSM coverages regarding the subject's new media platforms presenting his research/ideas as well as his trad. media op-eds/research papers & reviews published in journals?
IMHO to discount #1/huff at #2 seem deletionist ad hoc tools wielded to achieve what's their real objective which is to bypass WP's actual guidelines about media coverages so they can resort to their preferred mode of merely zeroing in on formal academic statuses. But, you know, it is what it is.-
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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21:16, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete -- I see two problems: TOOSOON and COI. Having acted as an academic referee is something that is known only to the referee and the editor. I thus suspect that this is an autobiography. Is that what the blacklist tag is highlighting? Secondly, this is a young academic who got his doctorate only about 4 years ago, and appearsto have published little.
Peterkingiron (
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15:38, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
erratum - Somewhere above I equated a Ox-/-Bridge MPhil(by research) to a phd Statesside. I just read that unlike the sixties/seventies and before, nowadays "securing posts" in academia with such a degree is quite rare.
[49]--
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Delete: I can't find any independent third-party
reliable sources for this completely unsourced article. There are several wikis entries which are no doubt mirror of this article but nothing else.
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Delete I agree - there are a couple articles on gridiron in Ireland but I can't find anything specific about this team after doing some research. If sources are found the closer can assume my vote would change.
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Delete just writing poetry does not make someone notable, and that is all asserted here. We would need to see that his poetry is actually impactful and noticed to keep the article.
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Keep The article meets the general notability guideline. The EuroGamer article is significant coverage and covers the game in depth. EuroGamer is listed on the WikiProject Video games list of reliable sources
WP:VG/RS. WP:Crystal does not apply, as this article is not based on a product announcement or rumour. -
X201 (
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16:06, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
OK a question, what month is it going to be released in? If that date in unknown it is not yet in na fit state for release, which means it may still not be.
Slatersteven (
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18:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
)On the whole ones whose lack of release was historically important. Also otherstuff is not a valid argument for retention. But it looks like I am outvoted so it is all bit moot.
Slatersteven (
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20:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:CRYSTAL applies more to far less developed things. Things like Final Fantasy 17, something that will almost certainly exist, but has never officially been announced. Or speculative things, like "Untitled Final Fantasy Project 2019", based off of a comment made by a developer saying something like "Yeah, we'll keep making yearly Final Fantasy games indefinitely" or something. It's not meant to be applied to officially announced products with names, working builds, and reliable third party sources giving hands-on previews on already.
Sergecross73msg me20:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Have just added Edge info too. It's covered in the latest issue - subscriber copy arrived today - Will add more from it. -
X201 (
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20:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep I was leaning keep after digging for sources myself earlier, which brought us to at least 5-6 in depth online sources. Since then, some offline sources have been added as well. Offline source to me, in this day and age, shows a lot, as unlike online webpages they can't just throw out every little tidbit without a care. Undoubtedly, there will be more. At the very worse, the article might be draftified for a while, but I believe it a short while and a waste of time, so Keep. --
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The result was delete. This is a very difficult close due to the high number of participants that can be said to have either a pro-India or pro-Pakistan POV. On balance, I am persuaded that the article does have a strong POV and large parts are a content fork. Many have brought up the WP:ATD argument that it is better to improve than delete. Against that others have argued, per
WP:TNT, that it is better to start over with a clean page. On this point I am particularly influenced by the research of Gazoth into the quality of the refs. To argue that the page should be improved presupposes that there are sources from which an improvement can be built. Many sources have been put forward, but no reliable, neutral source has been presented that discusses RAW in Pakistan in detail as a subject. To be sure, there are sources out there that discuss individual actions of RAW, but no scholarly source giving a balanced overview of the whole subject that could be used as the basis of a neutral article has been put forward. It is not essential to have such sources to build an article, it is possible to construct an article from sources that are not neutral and do not cover the whole subject, but this is much harder. It would need an editor of unquestionable neutrality to achieve that, and there would still be a need for at least one source that treated the title as a subject in itself to show notability.
SpinningSpark23:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:POVFORK of
Research and Analysis Wing. The entire page has a total of 4 sources all Pakistan newspapers. Has been proposed for deletion multiple times but the same editor insists that they have "balanced" this article. Much of the article is based on speculation and large parts of it are either poorly sourced or unsourced.
Adamgerber80 (
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00:23, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment How is the India Today (newspaper) a Pakistani newspaper? One of my references is India Today newspaper. Let the Wikipedia designated staff decide after they look at the article what the facts are. You clearly say on your User page that you are from Bombay, India. How can you be the ONLY JUDGE about this article's fate?
Ngrewal1 (
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01:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Ngrewal1 Another independent editor
GeneralizationsAreBad had also marked this page as a POV fork earlier (a year ago) and proposed it for deletion. You were the same editor who had removed it then by adding some "references" from Pakistani newspapers. Even now after it was proposed for deletion a year later you again removed it by adding more references from Pakistani newspapers and a single line from an Indian newspaper. Please look at
WP:NPOV which this article grossly violates. Also, have a look at the
Research and Analysis Wing article where most of this is covered with
WP:DUE weight age. Now, when it comes to my nationality, please be careful about your wording. I don't claim to be a judge of anything and have thus bought this at a common forum. If you doubt the effectiveness of this forum then I cannot help you.
Adamgerber80 (
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02:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
SNOW KEEP The nom should peruse
WP:BEFORE. There are numerous academic sources that discuss this in detail. For example India: Foreign Policy & Government Guide, Volume 1 [1], What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979 89 by Bruce Riedel [2], India's External Intelligence: Secrets of Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) by V. K. Singh [3], International Security and the United States: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 by Karl R. DeRouen, Paul Bellamy [4] etc. etc.
Elektricity (
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05:01, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
This seems to be a hastily put up list of references. The second and fourth references don't have more than a few lines about
Research and Analysis Wing itself and make a passing reference to Pakistan. The first and third references contain some more information again which is about in general
Research and Analysis Wing. if there is some information which can be integrated with the main article with no reason to maintain this fork. I am yet to see any form of substantial information which can sustain an independent article and cannot be added in the main one.
Adamgerber80 (
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05:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
@
Adamgerber80 Your argument for deletion was The entire page has a total of 4 sources all Pakistan newspapers. I have shown you multiple academic sources discussing RAW activities within Pakistan, hence rendering the deletion argument null and void. You claim that information from these sources (and perhaps the 32 thousand other book results as well) can be incorporated in the main article, but I disagree. The main should focus on RAW and its day to day business, with a prolonged operational history in Pakistan; this should have been forked a long time ago. Your Second argument that you made in a comment is that the article may vioate POV forking. This is again, I'm afraid, not true. The article does not point to anything as fact, which is common in articles about clandestine agencies. Rather it says what the reliable sources have said and then attributes the information to reliable sources. As I said , you should have read
WP:BEFORE.
Elektricity (
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09:17, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The sources you point are about
Research and Analysis Wing and not it's activities in Pakistan. I can "find" references for many things but the question also remains do we have enough neutral reliable content which is needed for an individual article or can it be incorporated in the original one. You haven't shown any significant content here which merits a separate one. Just running a quick keyword search on Google Books is not going to work.
Adamgerber80 (
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15:10, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep of course. Nominator hasn't explained what is POVFORK about the topic. Issues about article material, if any, should be taken to the talk. That's not what
WP:AFD is for. So far as the topic is concerned, it meets
WP:GNG from all criteria. There's a long history of espionage and cross-border intelligence from India to Pakistan, and it's covered in all
reliable, academic sources. The cases of
Kulbhushan Jadhav,
Ravindra Kaushik,
Sarabjit Singh and
Kashmir Singh are amongst the most notable ones to merit mention. And at the international and diplomatic level, Pakistan and India have for decades traded allegations on RAW activities, right from the heads of state to military and government levels. So there is no question as far as notability is concerned, and this article is of equivalent scale to topics like
ISI activities in India,
CIA activities in India etc. Mar4d (
talk)
08:02, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Interesting to see you acquainted with all these acronyms in your such short time of editing. Perhaps if you had actually also read
WP:OSE, you would have known it's an essay, and more fittingly, the following: The rationale may be valid in some contexts but not in other. The argument about notability stands and you have not dis-proven it. Mar4d (
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13:33, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete or redirect to the article on RAW, India's intelligence agency (or stubify). As Pakistan is India's most likely military opponent (if it goes to war), Pakistan must inevitably be a major focus for India's spying. This is a horrid article, which seems to be built on Pakistan's arrest of two alleged spies. If that is what they are, the article will still only be dealing with a snippet of what RAW musty be doing.
Peterkingiron (
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16:10, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Mentioned many references now. Most references are international or scholarly. Only 5 or 6 references mentioned are from Pakistan news media. 23-24 are exclusive of Paki references.
M A A Z T A L K 23:50, 26 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes I looked at your references. Most of them still state the same thing "according to Pakistan". Also, please do due diligence when you add references. For one, you literally added someones comment in the comment section as a reference here. Just don't google and add, please spend some time in reading the reference you are adding.
Adamgerber80 (
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00:28, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Actually I haven't found the according to Pakistan words in may references. Secondly, if an international news channel mentions a Pakistani narrative, it doesn't mean that its an unreliable source, but on the contrary, it adds to notability.
M A A Z T A L K 21:54, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Should I
WP:ILIKE a multiple times prodded article? If I had, then your reaction would be just different but I am fine. Right now every comment is up for debate and you can also debate until things AFD is over. —
MapSGV (
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15:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It fails
WP:GNG. You are suggesting that we should abandon concerns of this article and work on them in future.. why not now? By deleting the POVFORK. —
MapSGV (
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01:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Because all of those references fail to describe the importance of this trivia. By your own comment it seems that you have worked on over citing references than actually providing any relevant references, but that's not really possible because subject is itself not qualified for own article. —
MapSGV (
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01:06, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Not much of what you are saying makes sense to me. I have worked on citing references than actually providing references? that is quite contradictory. And references, especially international sources and google books doesn't fail to describe importance of an article, but on the contrary it adds to their importance. I think you are being slightly inconsistent here.
M A A Z T A L K 21:57, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - individual issues can be discussed without resorting to total deletion of the page. Also agree with user samee ‘s reasoning above.
Willard84 (
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01:24, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
There’s a lot of at least alleged activity and information, especially in regards to recent events with Jadhav. I retain my view as keep.
Willard84 (
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11:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete and merge to
Research and Analysis Wing: I see no reason why this subject meets GNG when it is just a
WP:CFORK, largely depending on two allegations refuted by everyone. It also seems to be a violation of
WP:NOTPROPAGANDA. I recommend merging this into the "Research and Analysis Wing" article, where we can devote an appropraite amount of space to it. A separate article is
WP:UNDUE. --
1990'sguy (
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04:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Agree with nominator that this is a
WP:POVFORK. The article only focuses on a single viewpoint of RAW involvement, in spite of many refs giving substantial weight to opinions that accusations have been made to cover-up internal issues. (
[51],
[52],
[53],
[54]). A substantial part of article is either a list of accusations or statements of Indian involvement in general rather than RAW specifically. There are also multiple sourcing issues in the article including statement contradicted by reference placed near it (
[55]), op-ed used as a ref (
[56]), news reports on other reports used to artificially inflate ref count (
[57] reports on
[58],
[59] reports on
[60]), usage of opinions from fringe theorists (
[61] from a 9/11 truther) and using WikiLeaks ref to cite an unreliable website (
[62] originally from
[63]). The remaining well-sourced content can added to
Research and Analysis Wing article. —
Gazoth (
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07:43, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
This is not a reason to delete the article. An article should be neutral and feel free to add/remove the content with the references you want to add or remove. I haven't mentioned non-reliable sources.
M A A Z T A L K 21:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep My formal !vote for this article is still 'keep' after a thoughtful consideration besides the above first 'Comment' in this discussion by me. If there is room for articles on Pakistani intelligence agencies (Pakistan's ISI etc.) on Wikipedia, then we all know Wikipedia's policy is all about 'striking balance' and being fair. That's exactly why I attempted to improve the article when I first saw it nominated for deletion on 24 February 2018. I still hope and ask that people who wish to 'keep' it as an article, are given a chance to improve it further.
Ngrewal1 (
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18:16, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Ngrewal1 Please let's set the records straight if we are going there (not that it matters). I looked at the history of the page and this not the first time you have de-prodded the article. The article was also proposed for deletion (by
GeneralizationsAreBad[64]) on 11 July 2017 a day after it was created. You removed this on 16 July 2017(
[65]) and inserted a few Pakistan newspaper sources. It's been more than 8 months now and only more POV content was added to it prompting me to propose it (after I came across it) for deletion again. This was again removed by you by adding a few more Pakistan newspaper sources. Also, on your second comment,
WP:GNG is not inherited or associative per
WP:OTHERCONTENT and this was even said by
Ma'az (user maing the same point below) on a AFD sometime ago (
[66]). I wonder why does that argument change now.
Adamgerber80 (
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23:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Our main argument is, because the article is notable and passes
WP:GNG, its notability is proved. You are misinterpretting by bringing in
WP:OSE. Look if a person says that article
Canada should be created because article
USA exists, it doesn't mean that main point for article Canada is
WP:OSE. Main point is
WP:GNG, and after that we are calling for consistency. And you mentioned
WP:OTHERCONTENT, it reads "While these comparisons are not a conclusive test, they may form part of a cogent argument".And about my famous AFD :) (as it was featured by media) :) i think even you know that you are trying to confuse one thing with another. That article was on a biography which is a different discussion.
M A A Z T A L K 20:14, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I would recommend you to go back and read your argument once again since it seems very incoherent to me. You go from
WP:GNG to consistency to explaining how connecting this to
WP:OTHERCONTENT is per policy. But you forget to mention that
WP:OTHERCONTENT also states that is comparison can only be made "with Featured article, Good article, or have achieved a WikiProject A class rating" and should be "compliant with core policies such as neutral point of view and no original research". This article is definitely not NPOV as pointed by multiple editors and quite a few of the references itself are questionable as pointed by others and what
WP:RSN has told you about Wikileaks. Second, the point on
WP:GNG, you are mis-associating the
WP:GNG of R&AW with the topic of this article.
WP:OTHERCONTENT argument is valid in all subject discussions, unless you don't want to see it or are ignoring it. Lastly what you mean by our main argument. You are here to make your personal argument, not represent others.
Adamgerber80 (
talk)
20:46, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Nothing inconsistent, I just said that
WP:OSE is valid under
WP:GNG, just like an article about
Canada is valid if
USA exists. And to
WP:NPOV, look we all know that in political issues(especially bipartisan issues) on Wikipedia, its almost impossible that the article would be 100% neutral (that's why there are edit conflicts on political issues almost everyday), as a reliable source from one country might be opposite to a reliable source of another (that's why the article mentions mostly foreign sources and google books), so its not that non-neutral. And I don't get why you cannot edit the article just like
User:FloridaArmy did here
[67] and
User:Adamgerber80 did here
[68], Nobody challenged their edit. You can also edit the article and can also use
WP:ATD. And about WikiLeaks, the RSN agreed that a WikiLeaks source can be mentioned with another RS(good context), in the article, Reference 11 (WikiLeaks source) is mentioned with reference 10 & reference 19 with 21.
M A A Z T A L K 01:55, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Just because a a few foreign media/Wikileaks mentions that "according to Pakistani officials or Pakistani newspapers" does not make it neutral. It is still POV since they are directly quoting Pakistan here. Here is one in non-Pakistani media which is the interview of a Pakistani minister, another mentions that "Pakistan has complained", yet another states that "Pakistan officials accuse", another says "blamed by Pakistani authorities". And these are not Pakistan newspapers but foreign media sources you have used. I am sorry if you cannot see the POV which multiple other editors can. Also, by your comments that not all article are neutrals are betrays that even you think that the article is not truly NPOV.
FloridaArmy My comment might answer some of your questions.
Adamgerber80 (
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02:21, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:OSE is not absolutely invalid criteria. It can be valid and in this case, the article is as notable as its equivalent; Wikipedia should be consistent. Consistency is the hall-mark of any reasoned discussion.
M A A Z T A L K 09:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak Delete - In my opinion, the current version of the article fails
WP:NPOV, a core policy. The subject is notable and is briefly covered in the main article, this fork could be useful, but after a weak at AfD, the lede sentense and background sections are still, I feel, strongly POV.
Smmurphy(
Talk)23:05, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Tagging for NPOV is not a permanent solution. Given this is a fork, it isn't clear why it should be mantained in its current state given our readers might be better served by the operations and controversies section in the base article.
Smmurphy(
Talk)15:22, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete this is not an article about RAW (The Indian intelligence services) activities in Pakistan. It is an article about accusations against RAW by Pakistani officials. It is a clear POV fork. I don't see how it is redeemable. The subject is best covered in the main article.
FloridaArmy (
talk)
23:02, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I think RAW's activity in relation to TTP, Balochistan, CPEC, ISI is quite significant and well established by many sources(including foreign). However, in political and especially bipartisan issues, one can always raise this point, that its all accusations. A source saying Pakistani officials have shared a video, doesn't mean that its accusation, it means its a proof of RAW activity. Webster Tarpley, James Dobbins, Praveen Swami, and many other authors, all these are quite significant mentions.
M A A Z T A L K 01:50, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment For users arguing for merge into the main article, they still need to explain how it would be feasible taking into account content size per
WP:SPLITTING. It would be impossible to merge and expand such large amount of content, unless you want the RAW article to mostly be about Pakistan. Mar4d (
talk)
05:43, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Where have I attacked anyone? I have just stated my observation on the lack of clarification with regards to many of these votes. Mar4d (
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06:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment I would lean keep and want a improved article. I agree with User:Elekricity. There is definitely an Indian
WP:CABAL who is flooding the nom with 'Speedy delete' and 'delete' votes. Can you tell me why 'speedy delete'? They're only trying to influence the result. I suggest the closing admin to through check the rationale and even discount Pakistani and Indian votes. There are two or three Pakistani users who voted 'keep' but dozens of Indian users who are actually cabal try to influence every discussion: be it Kashmir, Rape in India or Violence in India against Muslims. I think this discussion need more neutral votes from western perspective. It is similar in nature to article, ISI activities in India or other place. Please don't be bias and work to improve WP. There are less Pakistani users so don't take advantage from it. Thanks.
119.160.116.141 (
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18:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - There are plenty of book sources. Whatever the current article quality, it doesn't merit deletion. Now that the article is in the limelight it could be brought to Wikipedia quality and policy standards. For example:
1. "There are also some indications that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Indian intelligence agency, may be involved in fomenting terrorism, sectarian and otherwise, in different parts of Pakistan, particularly in Karachi and Balochistan."[1]
2. "On January 29, 1999, an Indian saboteur, Subhash Chander, was apprehended by the security agencies of Pakistan for carrying out bomb blasts in Sialkot. The then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, brought this Indian activity to the notice of the US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbot, who was on a visit to Pakistan."[2]
3. "RAW reports to the Prime Minister and is reportedly involved in disinformation campaigns, espionage and sabotage against Pakistan and other countries. Throughout the Soviet/Afghan War the RAW was responsible for the planning and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan to deter Pakistan from support of Afghan liberation movement against India's ally, the Soviet Union."[3] --
39.48.42.250 (
talk)
07:06, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Authors are mentioned and the sources are reliable. I think there is high skepticism going on over sources. Its like you are finding reasons to somehow belittle an authentic source.
M A A Z T A L K 19:22, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Non-notable canned food company and meat brand. The article was PRODed by me, but the PROD was removed without addressing the notability concerns and with a request to perhaps take to AfD for a wider discussion without specifying why. The article is currently based on one single source from Liverpool Echo.
The Danish company Hafina Konserves A/S (earlier name Hafnia Skinkekogeri A/S), one of many Danish canning factories in the 1960s,[1] existed as a company until 1971 when it was bought by
Jydske Andelsslagteriers Konservesfabrik[2](no article on Danish Wikipedia either), perhaps better known under the acronym JAKA for products like
this. JAKA and a number of other food companies fused in 1990 to form
Tulip Food Company [
da,[3] which is today owned by
Danish Crown.
"Hafnia" and "Hafnia Ham" had existed on the British market since 1956.[4] As a brand name, Hafnia continued to exist on the British market after the 1971 buyout, and sponsored the shirts for
Everton F.C. between 1979 and 1985 supposedly. Hafnia Ham, a U.K. subsidiary of Tulip, continues to exist as a
dormant company.
Hafnia products were also sold in North-America, at least as early as 1925.[5]
Still, I'd be surprised if anybody can source this to [[
WP:NCORP]] and [[
WP:CORPDEPTH]]. I can't. Should the article be kept, it should be moved to
Hafnia (company).
^Mann, S.A. (1968).
European Food Processing Industry, 1968. Chemical process reviews. Noyes Development Corporation. p. 36. Retrieved February 27, 2018. There are about 30 companies involved in the production of canned meat in Denmark, the most important of which are Plumrose, Tulip, DAK, Jaka, Esbjerg Andels-Slagteri and Hafnia Konserves. In addition to the regular canning plants, canning takes place in many bacon factories.
^"Jaka". AarhusWiki (in Danish). February 27, 2018. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
^Andelsbladet (in Danish). 1991. p. 50. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Tulip International Tulip International er dannet af forædlingsselskaberne Danepak, Jaka, Normeat og Tulips egen forædlingsdivision. Den største aktionær er Danish Crown, der sammenlagt kontrollerer 45 pct. af kapitalen.
^Denmark, Industrirådet (1964).
Tidsskrift for industri (in Danish). p. 172. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Salget sker dels gennem Hafnia Ham Company i London, resp. New York og dels gennem et net af agenter rundt om i Verden. I de senere år er salgsaktiviteten på hjemmemarkedet blevet intensiveret med godt resultat, således at HAFNIA-produkterne er ved at blive almindeligt kendte og eftertragtede også på hjemmemarkedet. Inden for virksomheden gøres der til stadighed nye forsøg, dels med henblik på forbedring af bestående produkter og dels med det formål for øje at ...
^The New Yorker. The New Yorker. F-R Publishing Corporation. 1925. p. 68. Retrieved February 27, 2018. The canned Hafnia ham, lately arrived from Denmark, is a most delicately cured meat, which, although it has none of the pungent smokiness so valued in our own fine hams, makes very pleasing cold refreshment. Its flavor and tenderness come, it is readily perceived, from the extreme youth of the Danish pigs and from their careful upbringing and diet, rather than from the hateful and misguided tenderizing process most of our domestic hams are subjected to. The Hafnia ham is to be ...
Delete I sent to speedy on A7, declined by Sam Sailor on the basis it has a claim to significance. I can see no assertion of notability. It is a defunct company.
Szzuk (
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19:48, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes, having spend several hours trying to find sources with significant coverage, I am well aware of the the
number of trivial mentions, but finding significant coverage online proves difficult. And I say that with the added benefit of understanding the Danish sources, and in general enjoying
rescuing articles from deletion.
The
WP:SOURCESEARCH, and
WP:ITSOOLD arguments should be avoided, and I'm not impressed with the first "keep" voter posting here after only 10 minutes of research (
06:05-
06:15) and the second "keep" voter after only 4 minutes of research (
11:23-
11:27).
The New Torker article from 1925, the San Francisco Magazine article, the articles cited in the article, and the recently added article about the brands relaunch and team sponsorship establish notability. As you noted lots and lots and lots of mentions too. But the sources discussing the company and its products are enough.
FloridaArmy (
talk)
12:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
A. The citation to The New Yorker was presented by me in this discussion, and from the snippet view we get in Google books, it can not be considered significant coverage about the company.
B. San Francisco Magazine article - it would be helpful to link to the sources, here is what I presume is the citation:
San Francisco. San Francisco Magazine, Incorporated. 1965. p. xliii. Retrieved February 28, 2018. with the insignificant snippet "The most widely distributed brand of canned bacon in this area is Hafnia, which is imported from Denmark. I have used it many times ..."
C. the articles cited in the article, and the recently added article about the brands relaunch and team sponsorship establish notability - there are only two, both of them from the local media Liverpool Echo, both of them more about football than about Hafnia. I'm not even sure they are correct, when they claim Hafnia ham was never sold in Britain, cf. the sources above.
Delete -- Article fails
WP:CORP for lack of significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Searching through Danish sources, I found very little for "Hafnia Skinke" or "Hafnia Konserves," let alone any in-depth coverage. There are only simple mentions -- just as in the English language publications and Google books mentioned above. (And some of it is fairly confused such as info in the small Liverpool daily paper.) I agree with Sam Sailor's analysis; and am surprised that an article does not yet exist for
Tulip Food Company which had the first registered trademark in Denmark. That could be a place to redirect. But there is not enough clear information yet to establish a stand-alone article for Hafnia. —
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Update: As my rationale was deleted with the duplicated AfD: The passing mentions in the
reliable sources, are about the film based on the same event. This film fails
guidelines for upcoming films. The principle photography hasnt begun yet. The cast has not been announced yet either. —usernamekiran
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Delete. There isn't even an article on the topic itself, so why is there what amounts to to a spin-off article? WP isn't a consumer guide. Also, "Google hits" is NOT a reliable source. --
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Weak Delete - The general topic is, to me, encyclopedic. Sources on it are not difficult to find (
for instance), and there is a discussion of it at
Islam in India#Conversion controversy. However, there isn't a clear need for a timeline, it doesn't seem encyclopedic, it seems to have a taste of
WP:RIGHTINGWRONGS,
WP:NPOV, and
WP:NOR, as the sources and content do not take a broad approach, but focue on specific examples to make a point which is unclear to me.
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Merge and Redirect to
Matt Nathanson. All releases by this label (not be confused with
Acrobat Music) seem to be related to Nathanson, and the label itself has no independent notability, as demonstrated by the profound lack of coverage by independent, reliable sources.
YilloslimeTC18:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Matt Nathanson – this is purely a vanity label for the artist, failing
WP:CORP, and I don't think there's anything to merge really. None of his albums or EPs before 2006 charted, but they all have articles, so they could probably be redirected as well.
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Delete as per nom, the article contains self published references and dead links so it seems to have not established enough notability guidelines.
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Delete. Appears to be a small company, the refs in the article don't suggest notability, i googled for news and there are a few bits there, but not enough. Coverage revolves around their use of celebrities and venture capital funding.
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The result was no consensus. There be dragons here. The list that exists now is significantly different from what it was when this AfD started, so it's hard to know how to interpret/weight the early comments.
It sounds like there's basic agreement that we should have some way of navigating dragon space, it's just not clear how the lists should be organized. That's basically a content dispute, which is better worked out on the talk pages. --
RoySmith(talk)17:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Article is a duplicate of
List of dragons. Even if it were made into an actual list of lists, there are simply not enough notable lists to merit the existence of one. (Technically the article was incorrectly moved here and List of dragons is the duplicate, but it makes more sense to nominate this one as the incorrect title.)ZXCVBNM (
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*Delete. Firstly it's not a list of lists, secondly it duplicates a topic which already exists (at
List of dragons).Keep, I don't agree with completely rewriting an article during the AfD process, but now it actually resembles a list of lists so my vote has changed. List of dragons should be nominated for AfD instead (or redirected elsewhere).
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That's more lists of dragons than I realized. I'd say that such a list would be fine to keep. In fact, I'll just change the content right now, if that's alright. ~
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15:50, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just changed the article as suggested. That being said, you could definitely argue that these lists can all be listed in
List of dragons as well, seeing as they are all sublists. Also, some of these (popular culture in particular) should probably get AfD'd as well. ~
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Keep: the sales figure is certainly nonsense, and the Entertainment Weekly review no longer has its rating, but the AllMusic and Rolling Stone reviews still do and are reliable, and it has charted on two Billboard charts... that's enough to pass
WP:NALBUM.
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It's actually kind of weird, both AllMusic and Rolling Stone use both spellings at different points of the same review. They even handle it differently in how they do it too. AllMusic calls it Gametime as the database entry, and Game Time in the review prose, while Rolling Stone calls it Game Time in the database entry, and Gametime in the review prose. I'm not sure which one is correct, but since there's already a completely separate article at
Gametime, it may be preferred to keep it at its current name as to not have to add disambiguation to things, per
WP:NATURALDIS.
Sergecross73msg me13:54, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - meets
WP:NALBUMS and the
WP:GNG. The album was released on a major record label, charted on multiple major charts, and had two notable charting singles. Additionally, AllMusic, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly are all reliable sources per
WP:RSMUSIC. Given the characteristics above, and the fact that the album was released in 2002, when music sources were still sometimes locked away in print magazines, makes me think it's reasonable to think there's more sourcing out there as well.
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fails
WP:GNG,
WP:WEB. Neither has this blog received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, nor does it have any historical significance. To the extent the contributors of the blog might be notable, that, in and of itself, may not be in any way construed as conferring notability to the subject itself (see
WP:INHERITWEB). —
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Unclear what makes being released commercially notable. It seems like there is no limit to the list, and it seems to be indiscriminate. WP is also not a commercial directory of film scores
‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalenciaᐐT₳LKᐬ21:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I am limiting it to commercial releases because they are widely available and standardized. An isolated score that was burned onto a CD wouldn't be available to everyone and the track names would be different. I think there would be great interest in which scores were available from which movies. I'm not trying to make it commercial in any way, simply stating what is available and what isn't.
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Comment: How would you differentiate "score" from "soundtrack"? Some movie soundtracks include both pop/rock songs and an orchestral instrumental score, e.g. Romeo + Juliet. Does it have to be an classical orchestral score, or would you include
Vangelis's score for Blade Runner,
Jonny Greenwood's Bodysong, or the
RZA's Japan-only release of the soundtrack to Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai? If you're going to include all commercially available soundtrack albums this is going to be an enormous list, because so many films have accompanying soundtrack albums – not just Hollywood and European films, but Bollywood movies and even some low-budget independent arthouse films.
Richard3120 (
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20:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete and Improve Other Articles - I agree with the others above that this list could get out of hand without a precise definition of "released" and how that applies to notability for each listed item. But it appears that
User:Parmadil is knowledgeable on this topic and wants to add to Wikipedia's coverage of it. So I instead would suggest that knowledge of score recordings and their histories be developed at the articles for the respective movies,
Birth of a Nation>Score for example. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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There are lists of motion pictures that are sorted by nation and year, which would be broader than this is. And I plan on using the first and/or most complete score, not every release. For the person who says, "I wonder if the score for such-and-such was ever released." Sometimes the entire score is only released as a re-recording.
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21:51, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
delete First off, the title promises the printed music, not recordings. But yeah, when you get to recordings, release these days is the norm, not the exception, so this is hugely
WP:INDISCRIMINATE.
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While there is some coverage for this place in reliable sources, they mostly tend to be passing mentions, or at best pages that discuss it together with other public spaces in the Bay Area. As it stands, I couldn't find enough significant reliable coverage that focused specifically on this.
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The Dallas Observer articles are two interviews with the band's lead singer (primary sources) and an event listing (trivial coverage); Allmusic is user-generated content; the book entry is a passing mention that confirms Slaven as the lead singer, and not much else. I did consider these sources (except the book, which is a new one to me) prior to nominating, but concluded that they were not sufficient to meet the notability criteria. However, YMMV.
Yunshui雲水10:44, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Leaning keep: there's probably just enough in the Dallas Observer and AllMusic coverage to pass notability. Plus they have two very notable past members who have subsequently played on multiple charting records by other bands... I know notability isn't inherited, but it means there is a good chance Ten Hands was mentioned in the background of these members when articles have been written about these charting bands.
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Hi SmartSE, I believe that
Mila Jam meets both requirements as a recording artist with a large following. She also performed as
Britney Houston with millions of views on her videos. I have seen many other pages with less external references and citations on wikipedia. Please let me know what else you feel is lacking on this page.
Keep I clicked though the sources and she appears to easily pass
WP:GNG as she's been discussed in depth in many reliable sources. A quick Google News search also brings up many more examples of significant, in-depth coverage, further indicating she's a notable person.
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The subject has been complaining on OTRS about this BLP for years for it being unfair, and inaccurate which is damaging to his reputation. I tried to fix some issues but he's not satisfied and want a large chunk of material be taken down which is sourced and I'm not in position to remove it outright upon his request.
I don't really see any major notability here , and now the subject has requested deletion on otrs: 2014022610016708. . so I'm bringing it here for community permission to delete.
Saqib (
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07:48, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete per request. I'm disappointed that we've produced an article which has upset Mr Rahman so much. I don't see the contentious content (I see some minor age and address information reproduced from a local newspaper), and can see nothing that is either inaccurate or damaging.
However WP:N is the ability to have an article, not a requirement to. If he doesn't want it, and there's no public interest where we ought to record some dreadful wrongdoer despite that (Mr Rahman has been so constructive in his community that he's been rewarded for it), then we shouldn't force anyone into a biography they don't want.
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10:15, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. BLP request from a marginally notable or possibly not notable individual. He averages 4 page views per day on WP so no great loss.
Szzuk (
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18:14, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete nothing comes even close to showing notability. Producing poetry does not make one notable, nor does getting extremely local awards for volunteering, nor does being an editor of non-notable publications, or somewhere down the line on somewhat notable publications. I am actually trying to figure out why this article was ever created, and not seeing any reason to have created it.
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WP:BLP of an actor and writer, not referenced to any
reliable source coverage about him for the purposes of clearing a Wikipedia notability criterion. Pretty much right across the board, the references here are to
IMDb and other
primary sources that cannot support notability at all -- and literally the only reliable source in the entire article is a short piece in the community weekly pennysaver of a small town, which would be fine for some verification of facts if all of the other sources were solid but is not in and of itself a GNG pass as an article's only reliable source. The extent to which a literary or theatre award counts as a notability claim, for example, is entirely coterminous with the extent to which the media write about that award as news -- a minor award such as the "Global Ebook Awards" does not count as a notability claim if you have to depend on the award's own
self-published website about itself as the source because media coverage of that award is entirely non-existent. Basically, none of the sourcing is cutting it at all, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the sourcing from having to cut it. In addition, there's a likely
conflict of interest here, as the creator has never made a single edit to Wikipedia that wasn't directly related to Chiang in some way — apart from these three articles, the only others the editor has ever touched at all were actresses who've worked with Chiang. I'm also bundling his two works which have separate articles here as well, as neither of them cites any better sourcing to properly support their notability than his main BLP does.
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22:23, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Thanks for raising your concerns about George Chiang's Wikipedia page. We appreciate your input and want to address the points you've brought up.
We understand the importance of reliable sources in establishing notability. We have taken this into consideration and have included articles from reputable publications like the Toronto Star, National Post, and Toronto Sun. These articles highlight George Chiang's achievements and showcase his impact in the entertainment industry.
Lily Lu22 (
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15:53, 12 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Note that a total of three articles are nominated for deletion herein.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America100007:46, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment There is a
rabble.ca article on the author and the book:
[71] which I think meets
WP:RS, not sure if that's enough. The musical has quite a few Chinese-language sources, all from Sep. 2014 Hong Kong, and the actors also went on a
Now TV (Hong Kong) talk show to promote it:
[72].
Timmyshin (
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19:09, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Actually, Rabble doesn't count as a reliable source for our purposes — it's an activist group blog, not a conventional media publication. I read it a lot myself, but that's quite separate from its usability as a reference for Wikipedia content. And we can't source to YouTube clips, either — a play gets over Wikipedia by being the subject of media coverage written by other people, not by uploading YouTube clips of its own cast talking about it on talk shows.
Bearcat (
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19:25, 6 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Thank you for notifying us. We couldn't find any relevant discussions related to George Chiang or Golden Lotus. Could you please provide more information or clarification?
Lily Lu22 (
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16:16, 12 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Same as above, couldn't find any relevant discussions related to George Chiang or Golden Lotus. Could you please provide more information or clarification?
Lily Lu22 (
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16:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Same as above, couldn't find any relevant discussions related to George Chiang or Golden Lotus. Could you please provide more information or clarification? Thanks
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The result was keep. Would have been speedy keep as well since no valid argument for deletion was presented.
SoWhy10:43, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep-Seems borderline notable, TOI and India express have covered her marriage and her performance in the two notable films. Given that the article being promotional in nature is the primary reason for this AFD I will vote keep as this is more of a content issue. Otherwise I am leaning delete
শুভ দোলযাত্রা — FR™15:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The sources demonstrate that she is notable as she's received significant coverage over time in many secondary sources about her work and her personal life.
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User:Donaldd23 has a point. This article has been tagged for notability for four years, and the tag has remained without the article making a better case for
WP:GNG. Subject doesn't meet it, may only be here because of her famous relatives, but notability is
WP:NOTINHERITED. –
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23:25, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment. Inclined to keep. I found some coverage (
[73],
[74],
[75]) but the main claim to notability is the charting single. This is where I'm struggling, because I can see in the 2003 Billboard Music Yearbook on GBooks that she reached no. 16 on a Billboard chart in 2003 and no. 89 on another (
[76]), but on the billboard.com site I can only see no. 89 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (
[77]). The article, meanwhile, claims it reached no. 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and also reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. So potentially notable for a hit single, but it needs a bit more digging to find out exactly which places she hit on which charts.
This (you can see more of it in GBooks search results than in the preview) states that at the time she had "scored a national hit with the single "No Means No," which shot up to No. 18 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and No. 4 on the magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart", which suggests the claims in the article are probably correct, and that she is notable, but
this issue of Billboard shows it at no. 20 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales (not the Hot 100 itself), so maybe this is the chart being referred to. Either way she's had enough of a hit to satisfy
WP:NMUSIC, and we have enough coverage for a well-enough sourced stub. --
Michig (
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19:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep — passes
WP:MUSICBIO criterion #2, because the single "No Means No" was on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, reaching #19. I added a citation from
Google Books. Hot 100 Singles is listed as a preferred chart at
WP:GOODCHART. Reaching #4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart is also sufficient. Reaching #89 on the
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart is also sufficient.
[78], so the bio meets MUSICBIO on at least three charts that are listed as acceptable for this standard. Could go on talking about other kinds of coverage to meet GNG, but it's unnecessary as far as AfD is concerned. --
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00:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I don't understand. You don't think there's sufficient sourcing to establish that the song was on these charts? Or that MUSICBIO is actually pointless, because if a topic meets the criteria there, that isn't really enough, and some other unspecified criteria are also needed? Is it "just not there" because you say so? It seems like you're making a kind of nebulous argument.
WP:GNG says it's notable if "It meets either the general notability guideline below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific guideline listed in the box on the right". Either this, or that. One or the other. Over on the right, we have
Wikipedia:Notability (music) and this bio meets the criteria. You aren't required to change your !vote to keep if you choose not to, but I don't see you making any argument other than "
it's just not notable". --
Dennis Bratland (
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04:23, 1 March 2018 (UTC)::reply
I thought I was sufficiently clear throughout this by citing GNG that I don't believe this has the sourcing to be notable. That's the whole purpose of the general notability guideline. It meets that subject-specific guideline, without good in-depth sourcing to justify it. That's fine. It was mentioned at my RfA that I lean deletionist and your comment reminds me of that. So, in the spirit of good faith, I'm withdrawing this. –
Muboshgu (
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04:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Artist satisfies
WP:MUSIC for "Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart." That has been well established in the article by reliable, independent sources.
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I stumbled across this orphaned article that has not had a major edit since 2014. The page creator has not made an edit since 2014 either. To me, this article reads more like an essay, or a research or academic paper, exploring how elements of the artistic program of an Olympic opening ceremony can be used to impress an international audience. I though about merging it to
Olympic Games ceremony#Artistic program, but again, most of the content to me reads like something found in a personal essay or scientific journal. It has sentences like "Lighting maximizes the visual impact of the program" or "Music can be used as a powerful tool to manipulate emotions". The article's references are primarily to other scientific journals. Therefore, this article should be deleted per
WP:NOTESSAY or
WP:NOTJOURNAL.
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This promotional page claims to be an award winning artist but on the 2013 win he was only the producer, not the artist. A number of the sources are unreliable, the rest seem to be passing mentions. non notable
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06:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
delete - Subject not notable, so does not meet
WP:BIO. I wouldn't classify "Back To The City Producer Battle" as a notable "award ceremony" either.
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For almost the last 10 years ever since this article was created, it still does not meet
WP:BIO, specifically
WP:ARTIST; the only sources so far are just links to his works, and one actual source that mentions but does not directly focus on Storey himself. Looking up on Google returns other people named David Storey;
one is a British writer who died on 27 March 2017.
theinstantmatrix (
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05:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Actually it is -- being the whole point of this page -- in determining whether, for example, this artist qualifies for a Wikipedia article. --
Calton |
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Delete unless someone can find some much stronger sources. I added what references I could find to this page in November and tagged it for notability at that time. One citation and one tiny fact have been added since then (there was also some copyvio, which I've removed). Searching for sources is made harder not just by
the well-known writer of the same name, but also two apparently different painters (
David Storey,
David Storey).
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Delete Agree with nom. Notability isn't inherited - while the movies and actors might be notable, there are no indications of notability for this production company. Fails GNG and
WP:NCORP.
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Note from the article author: "As I understand it this is about Mr Kumhof himself and not just one of his papers. And a quick googling of his name shows that he's mentioned by Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Telegraph and many other well known media outlets. So I'm sure he's notable. But what need to be done with the article to show this? ----Space4eva" - my recommendation would be to userfy until that notability is shown.
Agathoclea (
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Comment: I find the nomination rationale here rather too brief to be entirely convincing in this particular case. In most fields, we would usually find an
h-index of 32, as given by GScholar, high enough to be regarded as sufficient evidence that the subject is notable under
WP:ACADEMIC#1, even if (as in this case) they did not hold an academic post. Also, when the first page of GNews results shows his work being taken seriously by the
Financial Times,
Daily Telegraph and
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, there seems to be a very strong case for
WP:GNG. Having said that, I realise that economics might well be a field where an h-index of 32 is not significantly high, and that his employment as an in-house expert at the
Bank of England and previously the
International Monetary Fund could be used as an argument that some of his apparent notability (though, I would argue, by no means all) really attaches to his employers rather than him. But if these are regarded as sufficient reasons for denying him sufficient notability for a standalone Wikipedia article, I would prefer to see them stated - and open to argument - rather than left for the rest of us to infer.
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The subject is non-notable, which isn't surprising for a cleric who's only 19 years old. The sources available are, like those already cited in the article, social media profiles and comments which aren't admissible for establishing notability. The fact that so many links to the subject's profiles are included in this article reeks of an attempt to exploit Wikipedia to generate media buzz for an otherwise unknown individual.
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03:44, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete when an article is sourced to an Instagram photo of a hand-written pedigree chart, all I can say is that we are dealing with non-substantiated information.
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Keep added more sources including Billboard album review, + charting song in Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Adult Contemporary Charts, 1961-2006, and Adult Top 40 Charts, 1996-2006
In ictu oculi (
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11:28, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. I'm an inclusionist, but being merely mentioned on a list or chart does not make one notable. Notability for people means, "significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject." (
WP:BIO). I don't see anything close to evidence of that. --
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No reference, no coords, no searching finds anything that doesn't look like a catalogue taken from WP. Maybe it has been transliterated badly, but if so, someone can create a new article under the right name with some actual data and citations.
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This seems like a very clear and unnecessary
WP:CONTENTFORK of Angels in America (which at barely 35,000 bytes is still a small article). The book was published less than two weeks ago, and while it has some standard book reviews and thus technically meets criterion #1 of
WP:NBOOK, it's still merely a content fork of the parent article and thus has no independent notability of its own.
Softlavender (
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03:13, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep This is not a content fork. It is an entirely different but related topic. It also clearly passes
WP:NBOOK. These are not trivial book reviews. They are lengthy articles,
[80],
[81],
[82]. The fact that it is currently somewhat short is likewise not a reason to delete the article. It can easily be expanded from the sources already there.
Voceditenore (
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08:10, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Not a content fork per
WP:RELAR, as articles about distinct, related topics may share some content, without being content forks. As a book which collects original interviews and other sources in order to present a historical record of the play Angels in America, its sociopolitical context, influence, place in LGBT history, etc., I think it qualifies as a distinct topic. I added more sources, a quick summary of the subject matter, and started adding to the reception section, and as
Voceditenore said, there is more potential to expand. The source articles provide significant coverage by discussing the book itself, its style, form, development, themes, etc. as the main subject, not simply as a side note to the play, thus making it independently notable according to
WP:GNG.
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Nonnotable relatively recently company. Coverage is either local, part of listicles, or driven by school shootings. Perhaps in a few years it will meet NCORP. Article is typically padded, with two one paragraph sections about funding/partnerships.
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Delete. Neither "county executive" nor "non-winning candidate for higher office" constitutes an automatic inclusion freebie just because he exists — but the article is sourced nowhere even close to well enough to get him over
WP:GNG.
Bearcat (
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00:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. I'm going off on a limb here, I know, but his run statewide got lots of coverage, from what I recall. FWIW, I voted against him.
Bearian (
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00:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
A non-winning candidacy for statewide office is not an
WP:NPOL pass. If a person didn't win the election, then they have to already have cleared another notability standard for other reasons independent of the candidacy itself. There are occasional exceptions for cases like
Christine O'Donnell, who got so much nationalized and internationalized coverage for her witch snafu that her article is actually longer and better-sourced than the one about the guy she lost to — but campaign-related coverage doesn't help a non-winning candidate clear GNG except in truly extraordinary circumstances like O'Donnell's.
Bearcat (
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19:08, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete- Neither county executive or unsuccessful candidate for governor pass
WP:NPOL, you need to come up with a lot of independent sources outside of the election coverage for him to pass.--
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Opposed:
List of transit exchanges in Metro Vancouver links to transit centers of lesser size than this transit center, so I'm not sure why this transit center would not be considered notable. Also, this transit center has been proposed to be a light rail stop in the past (similar to how many bus transit centers in the Puget Sound region are being upgraded to light rail stops with Link's expansion. Should Spokane ever get light rail, it is likely that this would become a light rail stop.
Jdubman (
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06:36, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just because
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, it doesn't make small transit centers like this notable. Spokane is not a major city where its transit stations (which get less than 5,000 daily passengers) can pass general notability. A scrapped light rail plan doesn't make this one station notable; wait until there is a firm plan and the preferred alternative includes this station before trying to use light rail to assert its notability. SounderBruce07:17, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment - That is a great question regarding whether a guideline exists on number of passengers making a transit hub notable or not. In my opinion, I don't think the lone qualifier should be passenger numbers. There are numerous transit stops (including light rail stops) in the United States that have Wikipedia articles (seemingly on the sole basis that they are a light rail stop) that have lower passenger numbers than this transit hub in question. This is not meant to be a
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument, but rather, an argument that there should be multiple criteria that weighs into whether a transit hub is notable or not.
Jdubman (
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06:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment - Regarding notability,
WP:BUSOUTCOMES mentions articles that describe historically large social impact may be considered notable. I've just expanded the history section of the transit center. The transit center was a cornerstone of major transit expansion in the Spokane area. STA's predecessor, Spokane Transit System, was city owned. Therefore, routes extending outside of city limits (such as into Spokane Valley) were few and far between and were on the chopping block. This transit center was a major component of the transition to a county-wide system that enabled transit development outside of Spokane city limits.
Jdubman (
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07:09, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The social impacts described aren't unique at all (literally every other bus route on earth can be described with similar impacts on distance traveled). Much of the new content belongs in the STA system article; we are an encyclopedia after all, one that doesn't need to explain that much background repetitively. SounderBruce08:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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Weak Keep as the singer won I love New York competition with her own song and 7 Notes Challenge competition organized by famous musician Serj Tankian. Moreover, there is a significant coverage about her on the internet.
Harut111 (
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06:38, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment - the 'I Love New York festival' doesn't even appear among the top Google queries. How relevant is it, really? ׺°”˜`”°º×ηυηzια׺°”˜`”°º×18:45, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment coming in 7th in the Armenian Eurovision qualifying contest doesn't meet any SNG, and I agree that I don't know what the "I love New York" festival is supposed to be. Refs are almost entirely in Armenian; I doubt
WP:ENT is met by them but GNG might be.
power~enwiki (
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ν)
00:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
No it doesn't. No published music (doesn't have an iTunes or Spotify page), so paragraph 1 isn't met; hasn't won any major music competitions, which means paragraph 9 isn't met; and participating in a Eurovision selection doesn't give her automatic encyclopedic relevance, or else
this wouldn't have happened. We should remember that this is an encyclopedia, and not a platform to promote unsigned hopefuls who haven't contributed to anything relevant in order to have their own page. ׺°”˜`”°º×ηυηzια׺°”˜`”°º×15:42, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Your last sentence reminds me of
WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT. When determining notability, the Wikipedia guidelines are what's important. The current state of sourcing in the article demonstrates she's received significant coverage in independent sources about not just her music but her history and her life. According to
WP:GNG, this indicates that she is notable.
Lonehexagon (
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18:52, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Based on the current sourcing of the article (I clicked on just three examples, though there's many more), it appears to easily pass
WP:GNG due to the amount of coverage in independent secondary sources. Whether or not she passes
WP:MUSIC, the extensive coverage she's received about her history, hobbies, and education demonstrate that there's significant interest in her as a person.
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Hi, I consider the 3 magazine articles reliable. This is my 1st article and i appreciate the advice on what needs to be changed. I love electronic music and this band is cool... i think that with their releases they deserve more recognition so i made them a page... appreciate suggestions. Thanks — Preceding
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21:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
With music on Youtube plus with a search there are also fan made videos, counts towards notability.
I also consider this wikipedia page to be reliable! Even though WizG is an up and coming duo. I follow them deeply. They are on all music platforms to date. — Preceding
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72.37.138.194 (
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19:04, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment True. And in this case, I consider the quantity of magazine reference influence the notability combined with the streaming platforms. In the end, I may vote for keeping... what could be added/subtracted to help article in the meantime? — Preceding
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01:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Twitter and Instagram accounts are active and match. With music on YouTube plus the fan-made videos, their notability may be ranked for page status. Member ´Kostas´ also verified account on Twitter. EDM.com reference is from an electronic music publisher, one of the largest, adding a verifiable source for the credibility of the page. Overall, it seems the band has notability and some good references, keep the page.
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Keep. The seeming remoteness of a locality could have many other explanations rather than having "no trace". For example, in these areas Somalis are known for being nomadic, hence no fixed population figures are going to exist. Also, periods of drought occur which could also cause population displacement. Furthermore, dispersion is also very likely because of militia groups which do operate in these areas. Another reason why it is difficult to find sources for this locality is because of the lack of a standardised Somali. This is not the fault of the local community. It is the fault of the weakness of the Somali government. Most of these places are transliterated in a myriad of ways, hence will not be useful when doing a google search.
92.9.152.17 (
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21:22, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It would help if there was a single source to even suggest this empty bit of desert was anything relevant. But there is nothing, so I can't see how it will pass the notability requirements.
Prince of Thieves (
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22:36, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete "Amar Deen" came up in a Geonames OpenStreetMap search; it had been deleted, and nothing existed where it had been placed. Delete without prejudice, though.
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This is an object case of why it's not wise to rely on maps compiled for some other purpose. In this case the source of this is a
UN map: every other "substantial" reference to the name is on a copy of this map. Geonames, however, doesn't believe in it, and after more GMap scanning than ought to be necessary, I don't either. The article drops you in the ocean, but the closest settlement on the coast that I could find definitely has a different name, and doesn't appear to be at quite the same location as the dot on the map suggests. I'd be willing to accept its reality if the text of the various uses of the map talked about the place, even incidentally, but they don't.
Mangoe (
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17:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The map does say The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. and there is nothing at the spot marked. The nearest land to the supposed coords is definitely an empty sand dune. The few villages nearby are clearly labelled with other names.
Prince of Thieves (
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22:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep and move to
Ceel-Lahelay It seems that the language in this article nomination is riddled with Eurocentric terms and thought processes. Somalis are historically among the most nomadic people in the world; moving from place to place for grazing for their cattle. Western norms and thought processes should not be applied to the Somali people. Maintaing articles such as this one is important since, even if isolated, it represents clan territory for a specific sub-clan, in this case I believe the Saruur Habar Gidir.. Also, I looked at the sources, and they are not misrepresentative
92.19.179.136 (
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07:45, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
You know, maybe or maybe not this is a lot of talking around the point. But whatever rationalization you you want to make for ignoring the impoverishment of sources, the raw problem remains that the only sources we an find, which are western and governmental and therefore can bring western, governmental, thorough resources to the matter, nonetheless fail to check out themselves, never mind having issues with matching the articles on occasion. I don't have a problem with the notion that villages may not be a terribly meaningful concept, but then the issue is that we need to delete those articles that say there is a village named "Thusly" in such-and-such a place in "Whatever" district, because the whole class of articles is invalid. And I'm for writing articles which address the things better than a western dots-and-lines-on-maps basis, but the problem is that the only sources I'm finding are entirely western maps that that say "there is a dot here and a line there". Otherwise, the correct outcome is that we implicitly confess our ignorance of Somali geography by not writing about it.
Mangoe (
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10:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Move My best educated guess is that this actually is called Ceel-Lahelay, which is in the same position as Hilalaya on the UN Map. We don't have an article for and there's a settlement nearby to the marker on OpenStreetMap. Also a note to look at coordinates when reviewing these: Anything with a single significant digit could be up to 11 miles away from the actual point on the map.
SportingFlyer (
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07:06, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete because we apparently can't even meet
WP:V. Better to, as Mongoe suggests, confess our ignorance of Somali geography, than to make stuff up that we're not sure is correct. What SportingFlyer suggests, i.e. looking at a map and making an educated guess, is the very definition of
WP:OR. --
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Delete -- DICDEF. If someone wants to move the content to Wiktionary, fine. There are hundreds of unreferenced photography articles, a remnant of a time when the standards for new articles were lower.
Rhadow (
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15:27, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's an article about a technique rather than simply a definition of a word, so not a DICDEF. Could be expanded, I'm sure, with discussion of tilt plates, etc., and how tilt is used in cinema, for which there are several possible book sources. Could quite possibly be merged somewhere else if appropriate. --
Michig (
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Panning (camera) and renaming that article to
Panning and tilting would seem a reasonable option. --
Michig (
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16:15, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment There's already a large section at
View_camera that covers this topic and likewise
tilt–shift photography deals with tilting on small and medium format cameras. I'm not certain if this standalone article is needed as the info is covered elsewhere and this specific definition is pretty basic and really can't be expanded beyond a stub.
freshacconci (✉)19:48, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment It's worth noting, however banal it is, that tilt is probably more often used as a director's instruction to a studio or remote camera operator (e.g. "tilt up and pan left") than it is in large format photo or in reference to a tilt-shift lens.
104.163.148.25 (
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05:22, 15 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Matches the corresponding article on
Panning_(camera), though I'd happily see both articles merged together into
Pan and tilt (camera). Pan and tilt are not minor terms or minor techniques within photography. The
View camera is a very specific large format camera, so a redirect would be just lost there, whereas this term is applicable to cameras/video and film photography and tripods.
Nick Moyes (
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21:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Very difficult to see the two articles as matching. Panning has relevance for shutter speed and exposure, references etymology, use in video and 3D modelling: tilt essentially says "point it up or down a bit). Possible grounds for merger, but the tilt article per se is no more than application of a definition, and by no means a match to the one on panning.
Kevin McE (
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13:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. There are reasonable arguments for a merge to
Panning (camera), but I don't think that works. At one level, they're both just rotations around an axis on the camera mount. But, tilt tends to be static; tilt to some angle, and lock it there. Panning is often dynamic, where you continuously pan to follow a moving subject with the specific goal of freezing motion of the main subject and/or blurring the background. This difference is implicit in the naming of the articles; it's not
Pan (camera), it's
Panning (camera), with the gerund form implying an ongoing action. Merging the two into
tilt and pan wouldn't be terrible, but it's not necessary. --
RoySmith(talk)14:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep -
WP:DICTDEF is only a valid reason to delete if there is no potential to expand. Potential to expand has been amply demonstrated. Merge opportunities can be discussed separately on talk pages. ~
Kvng (
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The result was Delete. Regardless of what the name means, we can't have an article about it if it has no coverage in reliable sources. Hut 8.522:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
"Afweyn" appears to be Somali for "
water well", because there are dozens of hits for this in Geonames, and most of them are tagged as wells, including two in this region alone. The one with the coords in this article is another spot in the middle of nowhere near the coast. Searching is impossible due to the common name, but I have to doubt the notability of wells, as I would the notability of towns with gas stations.
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16:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. As a fluent Somali speaker I am nominating keep because I find it quite perplexing how someone who speaks not a single word of Somali is trying to translate Somali words. Amazing. Afweyn means "big mouth". Af = mouth; weyn = big. *shakes head*. Also, since water wells are a political tool as well as important subsistence tool in such a barren region, this article is notable.
92.19.179.136 (
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07:28, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Google Translate does Somali now, send them feedback if they got it wrong. As far as the article is concerned, it clearly states it is a populated place, which is untrue, it is at best a well, assuming it exists at all, which is currently dubious. I see no specific guideline on whether desert wells are notable, it seems to me that they are relevant as you say, but somewhat lacking in sources or anything that could be written about them.
Prince of Thieves (
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22:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete OpenStreetMap calls it a well, and if it's a well, it doesn't pass
WP:GEOLAND as there are no reliable sources. Would also like to note I would like to keep all of these if possible.
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Keep and rename
Killing of Raju Risaldar. Searches on his name bring up SIGCOV from which article can be improved. I have added text sourced to a
Times of India article, it begins an article upgrade. I oppose merging on the grounds that nuanced articles on the significant players in communal tensions in India are the best way to support and add depth to the articles on political and communal tensions to which they can be linked.
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Personally, I interpret "X is a locality" as a synonym for "X isn't notable". At any rate, the coords take one to the side of a track running in a straight line due east and west, no habitation or indeed any other feature anywhere nearby.
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15:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. You can't just make up your own definition of the word locality. it is however implausible that this area is uninhabited since most anthropological information assigns specific clan homage to this place. Also these areas Somalis are known for being nomadic, hence no fixed population figures are going to exist. Also, periods of drought occur which could also cause population displacement. Furthermore, dispersion is also very likely because of militia groups which do operate in these areas. Another reason why it is difficult to find sources for this locality is because of the lack of a standardised Somali. This is not the fault of the local community. It is the fault of the weakness of the Somali government. Most of these places are transliterated in a myriad of ways, hence will not be useful when doing a google search.
92.9.152.17 (
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21:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's not even a populated locality, it's just the name given to a bit of uninhabited desert. The fact it has been uninhabited for at least 15 years is proven (by Google maps) and I can't find the anthropological information mentioned by 92.9.152.17, if there had ever been a settlement there, there would be traces remaining, and there aren't any.
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This article violate
WP:PRIMARY SOURCES and
WP:NOTABILITY. As far as I know, many university have more then one campus if we don't create specific page for every campus then why British Columbia will be treated differently. Neither its a residential college nor a independent university. I really don't see any reoson to keep it
Ominictionary (
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14:06, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. I don't understand what the nominator thinks our notability standards for educational institutions are. They're not based on whether the school is "residential" or not, and they don't require an institution to be fully independent. We do not necessarily deprecate writing separate articles about different campuses of a single institution in all cases —
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, for example, would be a case where we don't require separate articles for each individual campus, because both campuses are in the same city and there's really nothing that can really be said about either campus as a distinct topic from the other beyond their physical locations. But in the case of
University of Toronto Mississauga, we do have a standalone article about the Mississauga campus as a separate topic from the Downtown Toronto campus, because it has a lot that can be said about it and the parent institution is such a large, potentially overwhelming topic that it needs to be split up for size management purposes — if everything that could possibly be said about U of T were combined into a single article, it would be the size of several Don DeLillo novels put together. And UBC has the same problem — it's right up there with U of T and McGill in Canada's Ivy League — so its distinct campuses are a logical and valid splitpoint for getting some of the content out of the parent article. Yes, the article needs referencing improvement — but this campus has a considerable amount of content that can be written about it as a distinct topic from the parent institution, and we do not have any blanket rule against separate articles about satellite campuses of educational institutions.
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00:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Large post-secondary institution. The only reason it would not be notable would be because it's a satellite campus, despite this satellite campus being bigger than most post-secondary institutions.
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Another Somali geography problem, worse than most. Geonames seems to think this is a "variant" on some utterly different placename, itself "unverified"; the coords once again drop into the middle of nowhere. Google searching is plagued by false hits, as both parts of the name are apparently common components, but the exact phrase only hits the usual mirrors and geography search traps.
Mangoe (
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13:58, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - I agree with the nom. The geo coordinates show simply an unpopulated patch of desert. I'm not finding anything with this name in relation to Somalia. Who's creating these articles? --
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22:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Most articles like this were created by people making stubs on every entry in certain gazetteers or simply every entry on geonames on the premise they must exist, therefore are notable. This one is from 2011, but there are so many, especially in Somalia seemingly, where they simply don't exist, and since it is unclear whether there is even a government at all, there are no official designations.
Prince of Thieves (
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23:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep This area of the Nugaal has over the past decade been the scene of fighting over prospective oil discoveries between three governments; Khatumo, Somaliland and Puntland. Off course the byproduct of this is that settling in this area has become a political conundrum. The fact that none of the previous commentators have acknowledged that fact makes me feel that i should add balance to this discussion.
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23:41, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment the Dutch article points to El Uaesed which is also picked up by OpenStreetMap when you search for Acqua Uadi (possibly because of the Wikilink?).
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Keep. I'm not surprised that Hindi director active in the 1960s does not have a ton of sources available readily available online. That doesn't mean he's non-notable, it just means there's
WP:SYSTEMIC bias to the available online sources. There are enough hits in the English Google book results to suggest that he's likely notable -- the best sources are likely offline, and in Hindi. This needs attention from a native speaker.
Υπογράφω (
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03:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Hi Acharya63, yes you are welcome to take part in the discussion. As Υπογράφω has pointed out this article illustrates two of Wikipedia's weaknesses, we don't have digital access to enough sources from the pre internet era, especially in languages like Marathii and Hindi. Of course sources don't need to be online any more than they need to be in English, so if you have access to books, magazines or newspapers of or about that era feel free to use them to improve the article. ϢereSpielChequers 11:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC):Note: This discussion has been included in the
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MT TrainDiscuss04:30, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak keep--See
this reference.Old Marathi dalilies have covered him to some extent.At any case, the news refs which are online mentions the subject as the director of the first Hindi film to feature Lata Mangeshkar's voice and are pretty much unable to establish any notabilty.
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I can find no reasonable claim of Notability. The only reference has been removed by the host. The supposed official website does not relate to this product: it belongs to a bank with a similar name. Google News does not find any mentions of it.
To be fair, I do not speak Korean so there may be more notability in Korean-language searches which did not show up in my English-language search.
Gronk Oz (
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12:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Oppose - Fixed the problems that were mentioned. Missed that when I was creating the page but nevertheless, as mentioned before there is not that much information in English or any articles about the app to add more content. The information on this page comes from the Korean page and since there is a Korean page for this and the app is widely used in Korea, I don't think that the page should be deleted. Yes, I know there isn't much information but still. I encourage growing the page rather then just getting rid of it for minor reasons that won't exist in the future.
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Another great-grandson of Darwin, and nephew of Keynes, who does not seem notable in his own right. I cannot find significant coverage.
Tacyarg (
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02:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Possible Firm keep His 1984 book about
Lydia Lopokova was reviewed in major newspapers. I haven't time just now to look further, but I suspect the article may just need an expand / source.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 10:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC) KEEP. Take a look at a JSTOR, gScholar or gBooks, our boy Milo appears to have been a bit of a polymath, certainly his books on the history of science, on art, and about his relatives are cited by other authors, as are his scientific research papers. In addition, he would write the occassional odd essay, like this erudite, footnoted letter to the editor that appeared in
The Lancet based on testing some of Napoleonic body part to solve a old debate (Did Napoleon die from arsenical poisoning? Milo Keynes. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(94)93046-5. 276) I admit to not having read past the headlines, and, therefore, I cannot say what Napoleon died of, but Keynes' letter to the editor was discussed in literally scores of newspapers and journals as part of a vigorous debate on the subject that raged across the Anglosphere and in other languages. He is cited so widely and on so many topics that it seems clear that he needs a better article. Note that our article on him is pretty much a sutb, written more than a decade ago. The text appears to be accurate, but it emphasizes genealogy (which may have misled Nom into assuming that all Kaynes had going for his was distinguished forebears - which turns out not to be the case at all.) Article is badly in need of an expansion and better sourcing.
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Lacks notability. He is mentioned in a few books as a relative to Rubens, but indepth information about him can only be found in the journal of the Antwerp Archivists, which is not an independent source (an organization writing about someone in the history of that organisation). City archivists do a valuable job, but not a very high profile one and thus get little attention, and this one, despite his family connections, is no exception.
Fram (
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11:09, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Any evidence for this? No one in Antwerp apart from a few archivists actually knows or cares who Hendrik de Moy is, he is a minor footnote in the city history.
Fram (
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05:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
What evidence? The only source with significant attention for De Moy (not just a passing mention in one line) is the 19th century article in the journal of the Antwerp Archivists, which is not an independent source as he was an Antwerp archivist. If there is no other good source about De Moy, then the "evidence is very clear and proven" that no one really cares about Hendrik de Moy, at least not enough to write at some length about him.
Fram (
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14:52, 22 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Soft keep. After a source search I've found an academic article he was mentioned in
[91] He also gets a mention here
[92], in a bibliography here (from the 1860s)
[93]. Also Belgian/Dutch sources I do not understand, and lots of genealogy websites, and had a street named after him in Antwerp. I agree it's a borderline case, but I fall on the side of him qualifying for
WP:GNG since there were some diverse sources other than the city of Antwerp over a long time interval.
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Keep: Another example of a pre-Google-age actor who had enough significant coverage in her time, but not all sources will have been digitized and available to us now. Happy Days and Wonder Woman were major shows in their time with very high ratings. A similarly-situated show today would have such cast members clearly covered at a level to easily meet notability.
Montanabw(talk)21:01, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Cohen played a very minor character in Happy Days (not "starred" by any stretch of the imagination) and was only slightly more prominent in a single season of Wonder Woman. On the
Happy Days Wiki, she gets only one paragraph "About Marsha". Even if you stretch hard to call her Wonder Woman role significant, NACTOR requires more than one such supporting part.
Clarityfiend (
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23:28, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Added several additional sources including from newspaper archives. Passes
WP:NACTOR per "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions." She has an extensive list of significant parts in many films and shows.
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Delete roles are far below what is required for actor notability and sources are not at all showing notability. IMDB is not a reliable source at all, and it is high time we purge it from being so widely linked to.
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19:26, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Via
WP:ENTERTAINER ("Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions"). She's in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, and in the Canadian movies Matinee and Quarantine.
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The result was Delete. Although the points about systematic bias have merit, we do need reliable sources confirming that the subject actually exists if we are going to have an article on it. I'm happy to userfy this if someone wants to work on it. Hut 8.522:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
The parade of questionable Somali placenames continues, in this case with an article name which Geonames doesn't recognize at all and a name within the article which Geonames claims are some hills. The latter might be true, but there's no town at the coordinates given.
Mangoe (
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03:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. The rationale for deletion seems at least to be a strawman fallacy and when taken as a whole with other comments, possibly an adhominem fallacy. Furthermore, in these areas Somalis are known for being nomadic, hence no fixed population figures are going to exist. Also, periods of drought occur which could also cause population displacement. Furthermore, dispersion is also very likely because of militia groups which do operate in these areas. Another reason why it is difficult to find sources for this locality is because of the lack of a standardised Somali. This is not the fault of the local community. It is the fault of the weakness of the Somali government. Most of these places are transliterated in a myriad of ways, hence will not be useful when doing a google search.
92.9.152.17 (
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21:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Nomadic people by definition do not have cities, so an article about a city for a nomadic tribe is a clear mistake. And Geonames, which is normally happy to list every unverified site of a tent as a populated place, doesn't even list it!
Prince of Thieves (
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22:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Neutral. This is the kind of AfD where nobody seems to have been acting entirely sensibly. For a start, while one purpose of Wikipedia (among others) is to act as a gazetteer and while notability standards may be slightly relaxed to let Wikipedia achieve this, we still need to have at least basic verifiability and a reasonable certainty that sources are reliable not just for their original purpose but also for providing currently correct information to Wikipedia records (which does not mean that outdated information can not be used - but does mean that it needs to be clearly indicated as historic). The creator(s) of this and other Somalian substubs do not seem to have taken account of this - at least some of the sources used were not only up to several decades old but also their top priority seems to have been to achieve a geographically comprehensive set of places, even if this meant using historical or (as a very last resort) made-up names. (We would like to be geographically comprehensive, but verifiability has to come first.) In this case, the creator's carelessness seems to have caught the nominator out twice - first, by using the Arabic version of the name (which, in Somalia, was fairly common among 20th-century colonial powers) for the article title rather than a Somali version (as has been fairly universal for at least the past 30 years), and secondly, by using the coordinates of some hills given on maps by the Somali name rather than the place of the same name ten miles to the north-east. However, while geographical articles need not be about permanently populated places but can also be about natural features or (particularly in areas without a settled population) intermittently populated ones, this does not completely vindicate the Keep !voter's arguments against the nomination. Neither do the variety of competing (if similar) Somali orthographic standards (though the nominator and other contributors should probably be taking a bit more account of this than they seem to be doing). We still need some assurance that the subject is correctly described (as a hill if it's a hill, as a regularly reused campsite if it a campsite, and as a city if it is a city), and that it is something important enough to its area that even outside visitors should be expected to be aware of it - and currently we don't have that assurance. If there are some current or historic details that would give that assurance, we need to know of them.
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23:30, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
For most of these the first step as been to get the feature ID out of the reference and then plug it back into geonames to get the current listing and coords; then I go to the aerials. It's not terribly uncommon that the current names in geonames don't match what's in the articles now: if I can find the place and it is consistent with the description, I have on occasion moved the article to the current verified name. If I can find references to the place in news/etc., I have as a rule not nominated the name.
I'm certainly open to consideration of hills as notable, though personally my standards for these things tend to be on the higher end. But everything seems to say that the current text of the article is incorrect.
Mangoe (
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04:06, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
@
PWilkinson: very thorough assessment, but does by using the coordinates of some hills given on maps by the Somali name rather than the place of the same name ten miles to the north-east mean that there is a real village close by that this article could be changed to refer to?
Prince of Thieves (
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14:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
At least part of the problem in this is that either there has been a substantial change in the geonames data since these articles were created, or the person who created them was extremely sloppy. Almost all of them claim that the name in question is a town, but it's looking as though at least a third of them are now tagged in geonames as "localities", with a few "hills" and "water wells" and even a couple of "areas". There are also consistent typographical problems: for one thing, a lot of the names are made up of multiple words, but the article names usually leave the spaces out. At the very least, the articles need to stop saying that these are "towns". I'm not willing to care about the difference between a town and a village, but I have to say that "localities" aren't notable without some textual usage that gives some context. Hills and wells, we can discuss them: in this case if we are good with hills, the article can be moved and rewritten.
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14:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
That someone would probably have to be you. The original author is long gone. I'm willing, if people are set on the notability of hills, to rewrite it in place to match what geonames says, but I don't see how putting it off to the side as a draft is a good solution.
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The result was no consensus. Despite the number of bolded keep-!votes, the discussion is less clear whether the painting's notability is sufficiently established to warrant its own article. However, neither the nominator nor the other participants have mentioned any reason why this should not at the very least be merged or redirected, so this should be attempted before a new AFD.
SoWhy10:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. Most individual works of art by prominent artists from this period will have been studied by experts, subject to critical discourse, had their exhibition history and provenance traced, etc. In other words, each is likely to have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources, making them notable independent of the artist herself. This is no exception: see the
Met collection page for the type of information that a standalone article could contain, as well as a list of references for further coverage.
Υπογράφω (
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16:29, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep: It's a stub, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have sufficient notability to warrant a full article.
Czar, if you expand "References" on the Met's site, you will see a list of a dozen times this work has been published by others. --
Usernameunique (
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21:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Doing so would be ignoring WP:NOTGALLERYWP:INDISCRIMINATE00:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC) policy, and I'm not convinced that WP needs a separate standalone article about every single piece of art that was ever created or that is on display in a museum. Atsme📞📧22:03, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you referring to #4, stating that "Wikipedia articles are not merely collections of: ... Photographs or media files with no accompanying text"? If so, there is some accompanying text about the painting (not a lot), the Met's website demonstrates that there is much more that could be said, and the list of references on the Met's site goes to show that there is a lot of literature on it. It would be ideal if
Henryshirley or someone else would flesh out the page, but I wouldn't see that as a requirement for not deleting the article. --
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23:30, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Apologies for my use of the redirect - it came to mind first. I struck and noted correct section, particularly (including only relevant portion for sake of brevity): To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources. As explained in § Encyclopedic content above, merely being true, or even verifiable, does not automatically make something suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia articles should not be: Summary-only descriptions of works. Wikipedia treats creative works (including, for example, works of art...Atsme📞📧00:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The references at
the painting's Met catalog entry indicate sources used in the entry's description (about the artist's life, time period, style), and should not be assumed—nor are they likely—to be about this painting in specific. If the notable aspect of this portrait is a series or a style, those facets should be covered in the artist's article
summary style until given warrant (by length or proven sourcing) to split into a separate article. czar17:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep If I'm not mistaken, this work was exhibited in the salon of 1781 and discussed by
Denis Diderot in one of his
Salons. I don't have access to the sources at the moment, but I do think expansion is possible.
Mduvekot (
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18:31, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
GNG requires ...significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. That has not been satisfied. Per my previous statement, the image is already in the gallery of the artist's biography, so it's not actually being deleted from WP - it will continue to exist as will the information about the painting.
WP:GNG,
WP:INDISCRIMINATE and
WP:NOTGALLERY should prevail over the keep arguments. Atsme📞📧19:42, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just checking: are you saying the MET is not sufficiently independent? If so, can you please explain why they are incapable of unbiased a critical assessment or analysis? If it's because they own the work, then let me point out that museums tend to acquire artworks only after they have conducted said assessment/analysis. In my opinion, museums are reliable sources for works in their own collection.
Mduvekot (
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20:03, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Did you not see that I withdrew the merge proposal? I added the image to the artist's gallery. Editors can add information about the piece in the artist's Exhibition section. Atsme📞📧20:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I did see that, which is why I asked for clarification. I can see that that wasn't obvious, sorry. I'm not sure what you want; delete the article, but in your words it will continue to exist as will the information about the painting. As I see it, that's a merge proposal, only you don't call it that. So, do you want to a) merge, in which case the information is retained in
Anne Vallayer-Coster or b) delete, in which case it is removed?
Mduvekot (
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20:50, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I can understand why you would find it confusing, my apologies. I'm happy to try to explain more clearly. The image is part of the artist's Exhibit gallery on her WP biography. The information that is relevant to the painting is included with the image - all you have to do is click on the image, then click on "more details". There is nothing else notable about the painting that warrants it being a standalone article. For an individual painting to qualify as a stand alone, it must be notable beyond the artist's notability which requires verifiability in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. This painting does not meet that qualification - there is no "notable" account that justifies it to be separate from the artist's biography. Hope that helps. Atsme📞📧21:18, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I found the Diderot quote I mentioned above, here: [
[94]]. In his review of the Salon of 1781, discussing "Petits tableaux Ovales de Fleurs et de Fruits", he writes: "I y a de la vérité; mais la touche est molle et froide: rien de la finesse particulière de dessin et de pinceau que ce genre exige. La corbeille de raisins est égale de ton et sans effet." That is a remarkable change in to from his critique 10 years earlier, when he was very enthusiastic about her work.
Mduvekot (
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21:46, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Putting it within a list would also make it harder to adequately include the provenance and exhibition history, let alone describe the work as an individual piece. --
Usernameunique (
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19:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
We don't need subject-specific guidelines for every topic. Our main policy is the
general notability guideline, which requires
significant coverage in multiple
reliable,
independent sources. (
?) The question is what sources in this case cover this particular painting in enough depth to warrant a separate article from the article's own biography or an article on the artist's oeuvre. No one has investigated the contents of the Met's bibliography. Of course the Met's own publications cover the painting, but that doesn't imply that every painting at the Met is independently notable because we require proof that a work has been covered in sources independent from the subject (in this case, the holding museum). The other sources in the bibliography could just as well be mainly about the artist or period and not this painting in particular, based on the work's blurb on the Met's website. This should be basic deduction. czar19:52, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep quite notable, has an image, and not too badly referenced. Its not because its a stub that it should be deleted. L293D (
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✎)19:50, 6 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Anne Vallayer-Coster. I'm not finding any
WP:RS outside of the Met's own catalog. There's a number of art dealers selling prints of this, and stuff like that, but nothing that I would consider an independent
WP:RS which provides the significant coverage required by
WP:GNG. --
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Redirect per AngusWOOF. Some information belongs there, and the redirect would be helpful for readers to find it. But there's no reason to have a separate article for each year.
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16:50, 16 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Note that a total of two articles are nominated for deletion herein.
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Keep -- Sufficient notability established by the sources provided. From a practical standpoint, it's useful to have a stand-alone article to accept wikilinks, rather than a redirect to section in a long article. --
K.e.coffman (
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04:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The international usage of this concept has been noted in reliable sources. The idea that something "is Orwellian" is well defined and goes beyond simply being a dictionary definition. This is quite consistent, there seems to be an article about pretty much every derogatory term with widespread cultural connotations.
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Keep Hoping this spurs at least more independent sources, but in here we have plot, episodes and airdate. That's usually the bare minimum for a television series article, and this has what we need. Barring a sudden rebrand/meteoric intervention, this show will air. Nate•(
chatter)01:34, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you saying that we bypass GNG and N and accept this stub simply because it exists? Perhaps I'm missing what makes it notable...please cite the policy that makes it eligible for inclusion.
CommentWP:COMMONSENSE, for one. This is a spin-off series of a show which already aired successfully on the network. Animation takes months before in order to be ready on the airdate and most of it is done already. Unless Hasbro suddenly changes its mind and decides to junk millions of dollars of promotion, hiring cast, crew and animation, this show is presumed to go forward, and burning this article because 'oh it hasn't aired on TV yet' would be pointless since it will air on TV soon. Nate•(
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I read that......but absent significant evidence that the pilot has notability for reasons beyond simple confirmation of its existence, the announcement itself is not sufficient basis for a standalone article about the pilot. Did I miss something? Atsme📞📧00:42, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you sure it's a pilot that's being aired? There are already two episodes listed, and articles say the series has been picked up. It's starting with two episodes back-to-back which isn't typical of a pilot.
[95] In any case, there's no need to delete this, at best it's a draftify.
SportingFlyer (
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01:35, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It appears that the
WP:COMMONSENSE comment above applies best to
Wikipedia:Television_episodes which states (my bold underline): While each episode on its own may not qualify for an article, it is quite likely that sources can be found to support a series or season page, where all the episodes in one season (or series) are presented on one page. (See examples listed below). Such pages must still be notable, and contain out-of-universe context, and not merely be a list of episode titles or cast and crew: Wikipedia is not a directory. This AfD nomination was proper considering the article comprises little more than a single episode and cast, and the sources are not independent of the series. It simply does not meet GNG per the guidelines. Atsme📞📧11:26, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
From
WP:TVSHOW: in most cases, a television series is not eligible for an article until its scheduling as an ongoing series has been formally confirmed by a television network (for instance, it has been announced at a television network's upfront presentation as being scheduled and advanced to series) This isn't an episodes article, nor is it a pilot; it appears there are two episodes which are confirmed to air in six weeks.
SportingFlyertalk19:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Well...the fact we don't even know what it is exactly is reason enough to delete or draftify. Hopefully the closer will be able to figure it out. Atsme📞📧21:19, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Yeah, but no. Too soon. Let it incubate. WP is not a platform to promotion a new "potential/proposed" series. There's nothing notable about it - it's just another proposed series. If you think there is more information you can add to establish N, please do, but as it sits right now, it fails N. Atsme📞📧22:45, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Delete agree with nominator: this is presented as
WP:AUTHOR, though only a few technical books are here, and few sources are available showing other
WP:GNG.
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The result was delete. No reliable, independent, in-depth sources were given to establish notability. It was not clearly demonstrated that the topic is a "very popular author" in Turkey.
78.26(
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There are no independent sources to prove that he's notable. The article in Turkish Wikipedia has also been nominated for deletion and looks like it will be deleted.
Rapsar (
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16:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
independent sources is for this person is reportage in national newspappers and so Everything must be removed for you already. Why do you delete here because it is deleted in Turkish Wikipedia? Pls Please do not delete in English Wikipedia thank u.
86.67.141.171 (
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19:05, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The related person is a very populer author in Turkey. I think that the page about he in Turkish wikipedia is blocked in a result of a simple misunderstanding.
Haruneme (
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20:33, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. The only sources covering this person are primary sources, mainly interviews, and the sources on the article are literally just his personal website and his columns. No, he is not a very popular author and the two comments above seem to be part of a promotional campaign to keep the page. The two users (anonymous and Haruneme) have taken a proactive stance for keep in the discussions (for the
book by the author as well as
the author himself) on Turkish Wikipedia. Needless to say, these comments lack any policy-based substantiation. --
GGT (
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18:13, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Finally: there is no provocation. İn Turkish Wikipedia trying to delete the article of Wikipedia 7 months after the book. And I have reasoned arguments for the other Wikipedist including. And other Wikipedist i a reason for not delete this article. There is no need for advertising, but it's good to know you a little bit yourself. those who think like you who provoke. Keep your comments to yourself Develop an argument.
86.67.141.171 (
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21:46, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
@
GGT:, the article has been deleted in Turkish Wikipedia, because of the same reasons that you mentioned. The anonymous user is Mr. Çoarkçı himself, and despite many explainations, we couldn't make him understand Wikipedia policies and guidelines.--
Rapsar (
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23:20, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry Rapstar i am not Mr.Çorakçı i am the assistant. Wikipedia Turkey's employees is idiot and despot. You are always right in your own world:) I hope the English Wikipedia are not so lol :) You and your friends is vandalism team. İn the 2 article 3 people is say not deleted. You attacked for delete and yours arguments is not acceptable.(İngilizce'den size ne yahu? neden karışıyorsunuz? İnceleme Elemanı o 2 maddede de çok güzel özetledi sizin ekibin durumunu:) Vikiçizer ile beraber harbi zavallısınız. 3 kişi o 2 maddede silinmesin demiş, saygınız yok, hep kendiniz haklısınız şaka gibi:) sonra neden Wikipedia Türkiye sansüre uğradı? sizin gibi iş bilmez tipler yüzünden bu durumda. /Bu da sondur, bir daha rahatsız etme)
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Delete It has received some coverage but not enough. Probably will receive more coverage when/if it spikes again, and could be re-created then. Currently does not meet GNG.
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Non-notable journalist. The Arabic sourcing either doesn't appear to be about him or is about one event (he was injured in a bombing, which unfortunately happens fairly frequently to journalists in war zones).
WP:BLP1E applies here
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This is an Indian film producer and director who has an impressive list of films but no evidence of significant coverage in reliable independent sources. I have already cleaned up some blog and IMDB citation, but the remaining ones are either associated with the subject's company
Pen N Camera International (which I have just converted to a redirect because it had largely the same content as this article), or offer only mentions or scant coverage. The creator of this article appears to be associated with Pen N Camera International, based on contribution history. ~
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Delete Still non notable. I wouldn't take it as G4, though, as the prior AFD is over a decade old, and all but 2 of the participants have been inactive for years.
L3X1◊distænt write◊21:00, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak delete or Redirect to
God's Stuff: I'm not seeing enough to meet GNG, but the strip itself appears to have adequate indicia of notability. My thinking is a redirect might be preferable so as to not leave a redlink as bait for re-creation, given that this is round two as to this individual.
Montanabw(talk)21:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Even though the name is unusual and thus Google results are easy to parse, I'm not seeing any significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. The comic strip has no notability either.
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Keep I was ready to have the article deleted until I did a search in Google on "Evelyn Adams lottery" and found dozens of sources, many of which were added to the article. Many of the sources that include her name are brief mentions, but the two sources from The New York Times are in-depth coverage about her, both from 1986 when she won for the second time (arguably a BLP1E) and in 1993 after she had blown it all. The coverage has continued over the decades, using her example as a two-time lottery winner who lost it all as a cautionary tale. I plan on nominating the expanded article for inclusion in DYK, though the AfD would have to end successfully for inclusion.
Alansohn (
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13:53, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete- Violation of
WP:BLP as notable for one event only (technically two, but even so). The only in-depth coverage came when she actually won the lottery. Articles after that were "where are they now?" human-interest stories about multiple people. And featuring the article as DYK would just further violate the "presumption in favor of privacy" in BLP.--
Rusf10 (
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05:11, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Reply to non-policy-based vote All you've done is make an assertion that the individual is not notable. I get, you don't like it; it's
WP:NOTNOTABLE. No one has argued that winning the lottery is a claim of notability in and of itself. Winning the lottery twice and being the topic of sustained coverage over a period of decades a rather string claim of notability. The fact that you are unable to address the reliable and verifiable sourcing only detracts any credence from your vote.
Alansohn (
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19:58, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
As rare as it is, simply winning the lottery twice is not a strong claim to notability. And even though she one twice, winning the lottery is a routine event (hundreds of people win every year), so I still going to call it "notable for one event only". She has not been the subject of significant in-depth coverage since she won the lottery the second time. A few sentences in those "where are they now?" lottery winners stories since are not significant in-depth coverage. This type of coverage actually falls under
WP:NOTNEWS. What is the purpose of this article anyway? To embarrass (or possibly shame) a woman who obviously has very poor money management skills and a possible gambling addiction?--
Rusf10 (
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21:42, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:BLP1E covers *ONE* -- and only *ONE* -- event. She is notable for *TWO* events, having been noted as the first person in the United States to have the distinction, and has received enduring and significant in-depth coverage since her second win. It's refreshing to see that you're appealing to mentions of Wikipedia policy, such as
WP:NOTNEWS, rather than just arguing that anything you don't like should be deleted, and repeating that argument ad nauseum at forum after forum until you achieve your goal of seeing an article deleted. Unfortunately, WP:NOTNEWS makes mentions of four specific criteria: 1) Original reporting ; 2) News reports; 3) Who's who; and 4) A diary. None of those apply, and if you're calling thus based on a news report, that is described as "For example, routine news reporting on things like announcements, sports, or celebrities is not a sufficient basis for inclusion in the encyclopedia.", which is not what these in-depth article are. The net result is hardly an argument for anything, let alone deletion.
Alansohn (
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02:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
How is winning the lottery not a routine news event? Every single week I see a story on the local news about someone winning the lottery. She won twice, it made a nice "can you believe that happened?" story for the media and now its over. And as I said before since then there have only been trivial mentions of this woman in what happened to former lottery winner stories. Yes, I know it happened **TWO** times, that's not **ONE**, but **TWO** times, I even said that in my last comment, but from previous experience I know you have trouble with reading. I'm not sure if its a comprehension problem or you just need new glasses (I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, see an eye doctor).
However, it was the same event twice, winning the lottery ranks extremely low on the list of events ranked by notability. If we take a look at
WP:EVENT &
WP:ROUTINE, it clearly falls in line with the other routine events there. "This is especially true of the brief, often light and amusing (for example bear-in-a-tree or local-person-wins-award), stories that frequently appear in the back pages of newspapers or near the end of nightly news broadcasts ("And finally" stories)." (emphasis mine) If winning an award is not notable, I doubt winning the lottery is. (even if you do it twice) Adams winning the lottery twice does not meet the requirements of having a lasting effect or duration of coverage.
Let's try another example here. Let's say someone makes the news twice for committing two separate, but similar crimes (let's say it was murder and there were witnesses so we know who did it). And then this person still has not been arrested and five years later they appear on America's Most Wanted or some similar show. Didn't they get coverage for two separate events? Didn't they also get coverage a few years later? Would they also meet the requirements for an article? Unless their crime was murdering some famous person, I doubt it. It would still be routine.--
Rusf10 (
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03:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
What an ass -- "from previous experience I know you have trouble with reading" -- but let's try to take your ludicrous arguments at face value. The question is not whether you arbitrarily decide that a person is notable, it's coverage in reliable and verifiable sources, a topic that you have studiously ignored. The coverage about Adams has been anything but routine, as a search for sources required by
WP:BEFORE would have shown, had policy been observed in this case. One person killing two people is not an independent event; one person winning the lottery twice, an event described in multiple reliable and verifiable sources as a one on 15 trillion occurrence (even if you disagree with the calculation), is anything but
WP:ROUTINE. That's why there's no coverage of Adams winning the lottery the first time, but *LOTS* of coverage of her winning twice in the span of four months. Your example of murderers undermines itself and proves the exact opposite of what you argue.When you write
WP:BLP2E and get it approved as policy by consensus, you might have a case.
Alansohn (
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17:36, 22 February 2018 (UTC)reply
If
WP:BLP2E actually became a policy (instead of an essay), it would support your argument, not mine. Again, I highly recommend that you **READ** things **BEFORE** you post them. The fact that the BLP2E essay is not policy seems to suggest not everyone agrees with such a literal interpretation of BLP1E.--
Rusf10 (
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05:00, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources found by Alan especially the New York Times sources which is a clear sign of passing GNG, also two wins = two events, clearly. Also on it's own this means nothing but i'm not even in the same continent of this woman and i know her name, for a lottery winner in the 80s to get 36,217
[1] views on here, shows there's interest.
GuzzyG (
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22:28, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. This is tabloid journalism. There's a long history of people winning lotteries, becoming sports stars, etc, and then squandering their fortunes because they never learned how to manage money. I'll admit it's a stretch to call winning the lottery twice one event, but it kind of is. We don't need this article, and we certainly don't need it on the front page. If you want to call it
WP:IAR, I'm OK with that. --
RoySmith(talk)19:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Appears to easily pass
WP:GNG based on the current sourcing of the article. She has received "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" over the course of many years, not just for the lottery wins themselves, but also for how her life went afterward.
Lonehexagon (
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04:49, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Page has been significantly improved since the AfD was created due to Alansohn's edits introducing solid refs to meet GNG. This is not a BLP1E article as she is mentioned in full pieces over at least the span of 7 years as shown in the refs included on the page, then additionally 20+ years later she is still being mentioned. (Though these passing-mention refs wouldn't be appropriate for establishing GNG, they show an interest in the subject decades later, plus GNG is already proven with the refs from 1986 and 1993.) The article also receives tons of hits so there is interest in her still in 2018.
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Contested
WP:PROD from years back. Despite that, the article remains a completely unsourced stub. As the contesting editor noted, there are a whopping two reviews from notable/reliable publications listed at Mobygames: one from EGM, and the obligatory review in GamePro, who devoted a whole three sentences to the game. They also list a review from Video Games & Computer Entertainment, but I can't confirm its existence since I don't have any issues of that magazine. My researches have turned up next to nothing in the way of previews, development info, or after-market commentary. There just doesn't seem much significant coverage of this game.
Martin IIIa (
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15:46, 4 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: are sources like
these considered to be reliable for subjects like these or are they "too closely connected"? (as it's not a news site or magazine or anything) because otherwise I or someone else could expand it based on this source. --
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06:00, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you referring to the Mobygames page itself, or the sources it links to? Mobygames is unreliable because it uses user-submitted content, though it can be a helpful resource for finding reliable sources. Some of the sources linked from Mobygames are reliable and some are not;
WP:WikiProject Video games/Sources is a helpful guide.--
Martin IIIa (
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16:25, 12 February 2018 (UTC)reply
See
WP:Existence ≠ Notability. I already addressed the Mobygames listing in my nomination (gotta love it when people vote on an AFD without reading why it's been nominated). Wikipedia's general notability guidelines are that the subject has been extensively covered by multiple notable/reliable sources, so the fact that I-War was reviewed by a grand total of two notable/reliable sources (again, one of which only allotted three sentences to the game), rather than proving I-War is notable, proves that it is not notable.--
Martin IIIa (
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15:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just to correct a frequent misconception: the GNG requires that coverage be "significant", not "extensive". Also, bad reviews contribute as much to notability as good ones.
Newimpartial (
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22:26, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Video Games & Computer Entertainment was apparently published as Video Games - The Ultimate Gaming Magazine from September 1993 to its end in mid-1996. Archive.org has a copy of the issue and the review appears on
page 88 with the associated 6 out of 10 score. I think this is a weak keep, given VG - TUGM, Atari HQ, EGM, and the three sentences in GamePro. --
Izno (
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01:42, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete -- these games are a dime a dozen; the article offers no sources and no encyclopedically relevant prose. Coverage offered above is of routine nature and does not amount to
WP:SIGCOV.
K.e.coffman (
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02:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
keep reviews aren't amazing (either the depth of review nor the ranking of this game) but meet WP:N. I'd prefer a merge into something like a more detailed
List of Atari Jaguar games given that these reviews all seem to lean more toward list-type reviews themselves.
Hobit (
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05:13, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep I know various magazines from the era that reviewed the title and more recent reviews by some notable online outlets that i plan to add to the article to make it more presentable for Wikipedia, that's one of my projects here on the site when it comes to the Jaguar. I really hate when people want to delete articles to the games related to the system so i say keep the article. I plan to expand it in the future. --
KGRAMR (
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13:08, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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The result was delete. Opinions are evenly split but the killer argument is the absence of a clear overview that apparently cannot be written without OR. Noone has really disputed that each Nordic country had a different experience of the war, which again argues that an overview article is unfeasible. Given this it feels like the votesbtgat best reflect the production of a quality encyclopaedia are the delete ones. The outcome would be different if there was prospect of a well supported overview.
SpartazHumbug!22:12, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Following an extensive debate on
the talk page, I argue the category "Nordic countries" is not sufficiently notable to justify an article on WWII. The WP convention is to approach the wartime history by country - and this is a logical category to use. Otherwise, there is a danger of multiple
content forks emerging (i.e. Balkans, Low Countries, Baltic States in WWII) besides the basic national articles. —Brigade Piron (
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11:27, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep the military history of the region esp re WW2 has been the subject of several scholarly and popular books in English (and many more in the Scandinavian languages)--eg: 1) Bohme, Klaus-Richard. he Defense Policies of the Nordic Countries, 1918-1939 (1979); 2) Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981); 3) Haarr, Geirr. The Gathering Storm: Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939 to April 1940 (US Naval Institute Press, 2013); 4) a scholarly article: Krosby, H. Peter. "The United States and the Nordic Countries, 1940-1945." Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire Ancienne (1982), Issue 53, pp 125-148; 5) Miller, James. The North Atlantic Front: Orkney, Shetland, Faroe and Iceland at War (2004); 6) Nissen, Henrik S. ed. Scandinavia during the Second World War (Nordic Series, number 9.) (University of Minnesota Press and Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. 1983)--published 25 years ago with scholars from six countries; 7) a scholarly survey: Vehvilainen, Olli. "Scandinavian Campaigns." in A Companion to World War II (2012) ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler and Daniel M. DuBois : vol 1 pp 208–21.-- plus the Nordic theatre gets well covered in overall surveys of WW2: 8) World War II: A Short History (Routledge 2015) by Michael J. Lyons = one full chapter (#6) out of 26 chapters. 9) half of chapter 3 in Max Hastings Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 (2011); 10) all of ch 4 in World War II: A Compact History (1969, reprint 2017) by R. Ernest Dupuy.
Rjensen (
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12:16, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
3) Haarr's book deals with Norway and the North Sea, not with Finland. 5) Miller's book deals with the islands in the North Atlantic plus Norway, not with Finland or Sweden. — Erik Jr.14:37, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The opening sentence now reads: "Given their strategic locations regarding Britain and Russia, the Nordic countries in World War II were the targets of German conquest or control, along with the nearby islands, while the British tried to stop them." This sets the stage for the article and assumes that the scope is logical and notable. But it is not at all clear if this statement is true. Soviet union tried to conquer Finland, not Hitler. Finland approached Germany for military support and joined Germany against Soviet union. Denmark was swiftly occupied, but Britain did not try to stop the german army, and Denmark was primarily a stepping stone to Norway. Germany did not try to occupy Iceland. Germany did not even occupy Svalbard. There were certainly spillovers between these countries, for instance Norwegian refugees and "police forces" in Sweden, refugees from Finland to Sweden during the Lapland war, German retreat from Lapland through Finnmark, a Norwegian squadron in Iceland etc. But there is no coherent, shared story there to justify a separate article. --— Erik Jr.15:01, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Erik claims "there is no coherent, shared story." hed provides no RS to support his claim. That is not accepted by historians of the war who treat them together (see Lyons, Hastings, Dupuy) and by the governments themselves, of whom historian Nissen states: The governments of the four countries....have repeatedly emphasized the existence of Nordic cooperation and a common Nordic culture. They did so before the war; they did so during the war in so far as it was politically feasible; and they did so again after the war, when cooperation was institutionalized.Rjensen (
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23:12, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but it is the other way around. The article should present information from RS that justifies the article (beyond the obvious that they have shared borders and therefore some spillover is expected). I would add that presenting a general claim (such as "have repeatedly emphasized the existence of Nordic cooperation and a common Nordic culture") is not enough, the article should present specific information to support the claim ("show, don't tell"). This issue we pointed out in 2015 and the information is still missing. More importantly, the story that is still missing need to be a stronge one to justify departure from WP convention to tell WW2 history country by country. There are many regions or group of countries that are more natural or logical in the context of WW2, for instance Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg, the Baltics, or Eastern Central Europe. --— Erik Jr.00:10, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. I agree with the main reason for the nomination. The "Nordic countries" is a geographic and political concept, but not sufficiently notable in the context of WW2. There are no strong reasons to depart from the WP convention to approach the wartime history country by country: These countries do not have a shared history during WW2 except for Denmark and Norway that is already covered in
Operation Weserübung.--— Erik Jr.14:26, 18 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Userfy - The topic, as a topic, of the Nordic or Scandinavian theater in WWII is notable (per sources presented above, and readily available in BEFORE -
[5][6][7][8][9] - and is probably a better grouping than a per-country basis as the actions of the various countries up north was not detached. However, the article quality here is lower than the per-country articles at the moment - hence the userfy !vote.
Icewhiz (
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13:42, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, I don't agree that the Nordic countries is a better grouping. As mentioned previously the history of the Nordic countries during WW2 is very different. Look at the opening statement ("Nordic" removed) that sets the stage for the article: ".... were the targets of German or Russia conquest or control...." This is true for all European countries, including Britain, and Poland in particular. It is true that the "the actions of the various countries up north was not detached", but it is also the case for virtually European countries in WW2. For instance: Allied troops were pulled out of Narvik because of German advance in France. Except for Weserübung developments in these countries were not particularly related. If you look closely at the early stages of the war most countries on the continent were more related, for instance German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia was related to the invasion of Poland, the German invasion of Belgium was related to the invasion of France. Life during the war was also quite different. During the final stages of the war, for instance the liberation of Bohemia was related to allied victory in Berlin, the liberation of Denmark was part of the German capitulation in NW Germany etc. So the point is that each Nordic country is a different story, in particular Finland with its unique story. Grouping the Nordics is much more artificial than similar groupings of countries on the continent. — Erik Jr.15:26, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just to add: Scandinavia and the Nordics are not the same. If we take Iceland and Finland out of the equation (and Orkeneys of course), the scope of the article makes more sense. — Erik Jr.15:42, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Icewhiz' indicate "not detached" as a criteria for grouping, this is a weak criteria as already mentioned as most European countries were related. And it is not clear what "actions of the various countries" means. Iceland (then part of Denmark) and Denmark did not do anything, they were very passive, so it is not clear how their actions should be judged. — Erik Jr.15:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I strongly disagree that a per country history is the best way to organize. It actually isn't the way most historians work (unless in a vary national setting). Countries themselves shift quite a bit - what was once independent gets subjugated or merged or split. Treating the Baltics, for instance, as we do in
German occupation of the Baltic states during World War II is quite straightforward. The Baltics in WWII all faces the same fate and really had little variation between themselves (as temporary
Buffer states between WWI and WWII - modern sensibilities for post-Soviet independence aside - frankly most history text prior to 1990 made little separation between them). Treating the Nordics as a group is not a "bad thing" - and it is done externally to Wikipedia. In terms of Wikipedia policy - if this is treated as a topic by scholars, so can we.
Icewhiz (
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16:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Loads of info on WP is organized by country, and I agree that in many cases that is not the best way. But on WP we do both things, for instance we have articles on identifiable battles and operations (such as
Weserübung that covers more than one country), and we have articles for countries during wars for instance
Norway in World War II, the same information is found in separate articles. In the case of the Nordics, country is clearly be basic level of analysis because all countries were basically intact as sovereign states and public administration continued operation within existing borders even under occupation. Even if Sweden cooperated with Germany (transfer of troops for instance), the German occupants respected Swedish sovereignty (so 2 meters across the border Norwegians were basically safe). Germany treated Norway as one country in military and civilan affairs (for instance
Reichskommissariat Norwegen), same for Denmark. So, given that individual Nordic countries stand out as the natural unit, there must be strong reasons to add yet another level. Events or plans that included more than one country are already covered in articles on Weserübung,
Plan R 4,
Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive etc., and it is not clear what is the value added of repeating information from these articles. --— Erik Jr.18:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Is it a bad thing to treat the Nordics as a group in relation to WW2? Yes, perhaps. When we create an article about X on WP we also say that "X is something", so this article may give the impression WW2 in the Nordic area was one thing, but quite the opposite is true. So we should be careful not to impose a perspective on the material, for instance the phrase "Attention turned to the Nordic theater." was added to the article without reference. On the
talkpage I have already commented on the sources cited as evidence. For instance Stenius etal (Stenius, H., Österberg, M. and Östling, J., eds. Nordic Narratives of the Second World War) is a collection of essays about WW2 seen from each of the Nordic countries, it is not about the Nordic countries as one Theatre of War. --— Erik Jr.19:11, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Crime and Control in Scandinavia During the Second World War edited by Takala (also published in Norwegian, 1987), is also collection of research papers from each of the Nordic (except Iceland). This is also typical for much of the literature: The heading is "Nordic ...." or "Scandinavia ....", but the content is about individual countries. --— Erik Jr.19:37, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
comment It is NOT true that the WP convention to approach the wartime history country by country. We have
Latin America during World War II,
Pacific War [[European Theatre of World War II and [[Middle East Theatre of World War II The Nordic region was explicitly treated as a unit by the British and the French, as the article explains regarding the planned Norway invasion in 1940. Furthermore the RS state and are quoted saying that the Nordic countries considered themselves a common unit before, during and after the war.
Rjensen (
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13:51, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The Second World War was, by definition, global in scope. It is conventional to divide it into regions or theatres such as the Mediterranean or Eastern Front and these typically involve several countries. The basis of the nomination is therefore false. In any case, there are obvious
alternatives to deletion which are preferred by our
editing policy.
Andrew D. (
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19:05, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
As a minimum I think this article should temporarily be taken out of the mainspace, until most content issues are resolved. — Erik Jr.19:20, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Is there a Nordic region? Did it matter as a region in WW2? Erik has based his argument on a false premise--that Wikipedia has a secret policy against regional articles re WW2. His claim is refuted by major Wiki articles such as
Latin America during World War II and
Pacific War and
European Theatre of World War II and
Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II. All historians of the war cover the Norway campaign of 1940 --often giving it a whole chapter. Rightly so because the military planners in Britain and France as well as their political leaders such as Churchill and Reynaud treated the region as a whole, and had a coordinated action that involved simultaneous warfare involving Finland, Norway, Sweden and USSR (and also two Danish possessions) all in order to win an economic war that would ruin the Germany economy. They had a region-wide perspective -- as historians have recognized. Butler in Grand Strategy says he deals with "Allied operations in Scandinavia" (p 92) -- Erik assumes the Allied planners of WW2 had separate plans for each country. No they had integrated plans for the entire region simultaneously. As did Germany at the same time and the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway together on the same day not separately, while fighting off the British navy. Furthermore Berlin made diplomatic deals with USSR, Finland and Sweden to support their control of Scandinavia. The Allied and German plans can not be handled country by country the way Erik demands because the war planners thought in terms of controlling the Nordic region not in separate plans for each separate nation. It's the same with the
European Theatre of World War II when Allied and German planners envisioned the region as a whole rather than a discrete set of separate units. It's well known how German delays in helping Italy in the Balkans in early 1941 delayed its invasion of Russia. Regions matter more than national boundaries in winning a world war. Indeed, Germany and USSR abolished Baltics/Poland/Czechoslovakia as independent countries, created brand new countries, and redrew national boundaries to suit their larger war plans.
Rjensen (
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23:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Rjensen: Please stop the mindereading, stop making assumptions about what I think and assume. Focus on facts and issues, please, this discussion is not about me. — Erik Jr.23:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
"Erik assumes the Allied planners of WW2 had separate plans for each country." Where did I present this assumption? Please stop misquoting me. --— Erik Jr.18:29, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Rjensen wrote:"Is there a Nordic region?" Again, you are misrepresenting the arguments I gave. Nobody question the idea of a Nordic region (although only after WW2 the Nordic cooperation was formally established) and geographical proximity is obvious. So can you please stop using unfair rhetorical devices? --— Erik Jr.18:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: Let us take a step back and forget the details for a moment. I think the key question is: What is the value added of having one more (intermediate) geographical level of analysis? If this level of analysis did not function as a unit, the additional level of analysis will merely be an aggregation of information from articles about countries. So the question if or to what degree were the Nordics a unit during WW2. The answer I would say is a «no» with regard to actual events (as been demonstranted clearly in the discussion above), except perhaps in allied, Soviet and German plans. The Nordics did not act as a unit, they were not invaded as one, they were not liberated as one etc., and the countries/sovereign states remained intact. So the shared history for the whole region exists at best only as plans made by the major powers. The danger of having a separate article is giving the impression that the region was quite unified when it is was not. So the reason for such an article that remains is a way to organize information. The key question: Is it useful to organize or aggregate information at one more level? Perhaps, but I am not convinced: Overviews are found in several articles already with links to articles with details. So the article is redundant and we risk fragmenting content. --— Erik Jr.00:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
it's a puzzling comment about "giving an impression" Wikipedia's job is to tell what happened and that is done here, no matter what prior impressions people had. The Allies and the Germans both made plans for the region- and they ACTED on the region in accord with their plans--which were all based on Nordic region as a unit. The Allies failed militarily in 1940 and the Germans won, and that victory shaped the entire war years. The Nordics in fact acted as a unit before the war in setting up a neutrality front--they were quite unified. The ww2 experience gave them a strong shared memory that still persists. They did not go separate ways before, during or after the war, according to Nissen. Furthermore historians writing the overall history of WW2 typically them as a unit. I wonder if Erik admits that has abandoned his original claim that Wikipedia has a policy against regional articles in ww2.
Rjensen (
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04:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Again: Please stop focusing on persons, the discussion is not about what I must "admit". And you are not quoting me correctly: I said there is a convention, I never claimed that there is (a secret) "policy". Comparison to South America is also unfair as that is a continent, and far from the battlefields.
"...historians writing the overall history of WW2 typically them as a unit..." Some historians perhaps, but to present this as typical is inaccurate. "The ww2 experience gave them a strong shared memory that still persists." - this is also quite inaccurate, Norway and Denmark yes, as occupied countries, Norway and Sweden yes because of the long porous border; Finland and Denmark had completely different experiences during the war, Denmark was one of the places to spend the war. --— Erik Jr.18:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep: A
quick search on Google Books verges clearly onto the side that there is notability in considering the Nordics/Scandinavia as a separate geographical/regional unit during WW2. For example, "Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy" (2013), "Nordic Narratives of the Second World War" (2011), "Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940" (2002), "The Nordic Countries in the Early Cold War, 1944-51" (2011) and "Crime and Control in Scandinavia During the Second World War" (1989). It doesn't really matter what wikipedians think is artificial or if the countries had totally different experiences during the war; instead notability is conveyed from what RS discuss about.
Manelolo (
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11:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Likewise: "The experiences of the First World War, in which the High Seas Fleet had been condemned to inactivity in the dead North Sea, led to early ideas of securing the Nordic region for the battle against British supply lines." (German S-Boats in Action in the Second World War, 2007); "The five Nordic countries emerged from World War II in widely differing ..." (The Nordic balance since the war, 2008); "World War II and its aftermath was of course the event that shaped Nordic Cold War security policy." (Nordic Defense in the Post Cold War Era, 1995); "THE Nordic area has often seemed to be the quiet corner of Europe. This perception harks back to the era between the Napoleonic War and World War II, when Europe was the cockpit of the world and Central Europe and the Balkans provided the military and diplomatic battlegrounds for the great powers — with the Nordic states only rarely being involved, let alone being of importance." (The Nordic region, changing perspectives in international relations, 1990)
I mean, at this stage it is starting to be quite irrefutable that Nordic/Scandinavia is a notable entity by itself in World War II talk.
Manelolo (
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15:29, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The sources you mention has already been discussed as mostly irrelevant to the issue. For instance "Nordic Narratives of the Second World War" are merely a collection of essays about WW2 in these countries, not about the Nordic region as a unit. --— Erik Jr.18:32, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Even if that argument stands, a few sources above discuss the Nordics/Scandinavia as a clear unit already. And this is only with a very quick search scraping the surface. "... of securing the Nordic region for the battle against British ..." and "THE Nordic area has often seemed to be the quiet corner of Europe."
Manelolo (
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21:17, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Even if some sources mention the Nordics as an entity, the article (current version) does not show how it was an entity. There were no facts on the ground that support the claim: Finland was fighting wars with the Soviet union and there was nothing particularly Nordic about that war. The attempt to tell a story about the Nordics in WW2 is largley artificial. For instance the opening sentence: "The Nordic countries in World War II, given their strategic locations in relation to Britain, Germany and Russia, were the targets of German or Russia conquest or control." This statement does not justify the scope of the article at all, the statement is largley empty or meaningless, because this statement is true for virtually all countries affected by the war or the statement is so inaccurate that it is not informative. For instance it is misleading to say that Finland had a strategic location in relation to Britain, and Sweden did not have a strategic location although some strategic resources. Iceland was not the target of German conquest, Germany did not even occupy Svalbard. In fact Falkenhorst admitted that the German navy was overstretched in April 1940 and was not able to control all relevant ports in Norway leaving Åndalsnes, Namsos, Harstad, Tromsø and Bodø open to allied landing. Iceland was of course of strategic interest to Germany, but if the german navy could not control the Norwegian coast how could they capture Iceland? In the current version the article hardly provides any information beyond what is found in articles on each country. The additional information the article claims to provide is misleading or inaccurate. --— Erik Jr.14:05, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, but the claim that the Nordics was "a distinct theatre of conflict" is not supported. The major powers made plans, but the actual events do not support this claim. — Erik Jr.18:34, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
My country was invaded by Germany, along with a long list of other European countries. The Nordic countries are well defined, but this definition was institutionalized several years after the war. But the discussion is not about the definition of an area, the question is if it can be regarded as a unit during WW2 (for instance as one theater of war). As a region of Europe we can of course use the Nordic as a way to summarize unrelated information. Except some vague statements the article is currently merely a summary of information from other articles. --— Erik Jr.13:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The Kalmar Union between 1397 - 1523.
@
Erik Jr. - The
Nordic countries had shared rulers and treaties and cultural ties as early as 800AD, some 1200 years ago. The entire region was united during the 15th century under the
Kalmar Union, a 120 year period where Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Greenland and Iceland were all ruled by the same 'federal' government with a shared monarch. The fact a new union was established after WWII in no way means this was the first union, the nordic region has been well defined since the early medieval period.
Prince of Thieves (
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14:16, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
To quote a researcher from Finland, although this is widely held in academica: As archaeological and historical sources testify, the present-day Nordic region was gradually interwoven into a tight network of economical, social, cultural, and political exchange ever since the Early Middle Ages. The most long-lasting political constellation was the Kalmar Union (1397–1523) that united Denmark (including present-day Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland) and Sweden (including the southwestern parts of present-day Finland). In a more recent era, common historical structures and institutions such as a uniform Lutheran state-church, the highly centralized state, the agrarian, pragmatic character of “Nordic Enlightenment,” and the relative freedom and early political participation of the land-owning peasants have been emphasized as elements that have left their strong imprint on Nordic people’s everyday experiences and mentalities (See e.g. GÖTZ 2003a, p. 328–331; STENIUS 2003, p. 21–23; HILSON 2008, p. 11–17)[1]
References
^Jalava, Marja. "The Nordic countries as a historical and historiographical region: Towards a critical writing of translocal history." História da historiografia 11 (2013): 244-264.
We agree that the region is relatively well defined, something that happened 500 years ago does not change the key question: Was this one well defined theater of war? If the answer is no, the article is merely an agglomeration of information already contained in other articles - that can be OK (even if redundant), but then we should not give the impression that there is one unifying story. The framing of the article is artifical and the things that do in fact connected these countries during WW2 are hardly mentioned. --— Erik Jr.14:42, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: The main issue: To use the Nordic region as level of analysis to summarize existing information is OK (although redundant and largely artificial in my opinion). There has been some recent changes of the article to make the region look more "united" than it really was (the article should not make the impression that the Nordic region was one theatre of war, because it was not). Except for a mere summary of events, the only substantive justifications for the article are (1) the major powers viewed the region as one and made plans accordingly, so these plans can be a topic within the article (this is still not well covered in the article) and (2) events in separate countries were connected through cooperation or spillover (this is still missing from the article, except for the winter war) for instance: transport of German troops through Sweden, evacuation of jews to safety in Sweden, Norwegian exiles in Sweden and preparation for liberation, the Lapland war and the scorching of Finnmark, etc. In short: The article now does well on things that are redundant, while the things that could make it a relevant article is missing. Instead of trying to build a case about a shared history, the introduction should be honest and specific about the events that did actually connect these countries. — Erik Jr.19:20, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Erik keeps saying that there REALLY was not a theatre of war that can be called Nordic or Scandinavian. That's his private opinion--he has given zero RS that agree, He ignores the general histories that give a chapter to this theater. He ignores RS that explicitly name it for example: Christopher Chant (2013).
The Encyclopedia of Codenames of World War II. Taylor & Francis. p. 489.. 2) Already in
1939 the term was used shown here; 3) Germans used it: "n the far north the capitulation of Finland had rendered untentable the advanced German positions in the Scandinavian theater of operations" [ Von Luttichau - 1960]; 4) military historians use it: Earl F. Ziemke, The German Northern Theater of Operations, 1940-1945 (Washington, D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1960); 5) An excellent advanced guide to the historiography: "Chapter 13: Scandinavian Campaigns. The countries of North Europe were important to the great powers in the war because of their geostrategic location." Thomas W. Zeiler ed (2012).
A Companion to World War II. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 276–. {{
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help)Rjensen (
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03:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry, again the point is to show that it was something, not the "prove" the negative. There are no facts to support the claim the Nordic area was one
Theater (warfare): No fighting occurred across borders within the Nordic area and all borders were intact. If we compare this to the events in central europe the differnce is striking: France, Poland and Czechoslovakia were broken up, fighting rolled back and forth across continental Europe irrespective of boundaries. Finland's borders changed and fighting took place over a wide area across the border, but this was a war with the Soviet union and eventually became part of the eastern front, there was nothing particularly Nordic about Finland's wars with the Soviet, the theater of war was in fact the eastern front. --— Erik Jr.13:36, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Re Operation Stratford: This was british plan as part of wider plan to take control of the Scandinavian penninsula, where the real target was Kiruna and the iron ore railway (
no:Operation Avonmouth) and support for Finland was largely a pretext. Rjensen again makes impolite remarks that I ignore things. I am of course perfectly aware of plans developed by germans and allies, and I have repeatedly mentioned that there was perhaps an idea of a Scandinavian theater in these plans. But the article gives the impression that the military events made the area into a single theater for war. If you want to keep the article you must rewrite the article to reflect these facts according to sources. — Erik Jr.14:32, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I disagree, no one is obligated to improve the article and possible content inaccuracies are not a deletion reason. You literally say in that comment that the British had a wider plan to take control of the region, and it's already been established that war plans were made by both sides that considered the region as a whole, and this is discussed widely in academia in terms of the "nordic region" and occasionally also the roughly equivalent "scandinavian region", not only in the text, but also in the titles of books and scholarly research. It is clear that the Nordic region is defined, was considered a theatre of war (in the war-plans) and has been treated as a supranational region by subsequent academics, therefore this article is valid and meets
WP:GNG. The actual content in the article currently is not relevant, tat is a cleanup/content issue. The concept of the article is sound, so there is no valid reason for deletion.
Prince of Thieves (
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14:40, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Again, there were plans that involved several countries in the area, we dont disagree in that regard. "...the British had a wider plan to take control of the region" - no, Britain did not plan to control the entire region, but there were plans to take control of Kiruna and the iron railway, with support for Finland as a pretext (Operation Avonmouth). Operation Stratford was a planned operation to support Avonmouth, a preemptive action in case Germany tried to invade Scandinavia. — Erik Jr.14:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
To add: On Norwegian WP there is a gentlemen's agreement that those who vote to keep an article of insufficient quality are also (morally) obliged to improve it to an acceptable level, this is a version of TNT. Several contributors in 2015 noted the issues with this article, only in 2018 there has been some improvments, but a lot is still missing. --— Erik Jr.15:33, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
(edit conflict) Apply TNT i.e. start again. The subject is clearly an important one, but this is a horrid article, where most of the content has disappeared into more detailed articles. Furthermore, the experience of different countries is so different that it is going to require an academic author to know sufficient to be able to provide a thorough overview. This is something the present article singularly fails to do. Denmark and Norway were conquered; Finland has wars with USSR, sometimes with the support of Germany. Sweden stayed neutral. The Baltic Republics were overrun by Germany then USSR. Atlantic island possessions were occupied by UK (or USA) to keep the Germans out. This is all highly disparate, so that producing a synthesis that is not a series of separate articles on each country is not a job for an amateur, which is what many WP editors are. I will include myself in that, as this branch of history is not my special subject.
Peterkingiron (
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15:03, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Indeed, I agree that it is possible to write an acceptable article about WW2 in the Nordics, but is difficult to make an overview or synthesis because of the differences between these countries. But the article should add something, if not there is no reason to keep in my opinion. So perhaps TNT or move to a userpage until it is substantially improved. — Erik Jr.15:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I mostly agree. I applied some TNT, leaving only the lead section. I am not adverse to a better article being built from this, inclusive of selective restoration from the deleted content. But again, this is a content issue and not a reason for deletion.
Prince of Thieves (
talk)
16:07, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Some users were trying to fix it (me and Rjensen, a keep vote) while another just TNT'd it (Prince of Thieves, also a keep vote). Therefore, I'm not convinced this article is of any use to anybody. Kill it. We have the topic covered in other articles. In 2018 we do not need half-assed stubby 'overview' articles.
Srnec (
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17:19, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - TNT situation. The article is not worth saving; I think the topic, structured properly, would pass muster for inclusion, but the amorphous title of this makes this a duplication of existing content elsewhere.
Carrite (
talk)
18:17, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete (Without prejudice to recreation). I am not convinced any of the existing or former content is usable, being entirely country specific content with no intergration or overview. I have no objections to deletion according to TNT. However this should not stand as a barrier to later recreation by anyone who can actually do the subject justice. This is because I still think the topic itself is valid.
Prince of Thieves (
talk)
18:24, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - while there is a valid TNT argument (moreso after 75% of the article was recently deleted), my vote is not per TNT. This is inherently
WP:SYNTH. Norway was occupied by Germany, Sweden was neutral, and Finland warred with the Soviets more than the Germans. There might be a case for an article specifically on the historiography, but even the references such as "Nordic Narratives of the Second World War" generally say each have "differing narratives".
power~enwiki (
π,
ν)
18:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep While Scandinavia was not a distinct theater, there are plenty of references here that refer to the Nordic area/Scandinavia as a noteworthy distinct location for military activity - for instance: Bayer, James A. "The Scandinavian Flank As History, 1939-1940" (1984): Vehvilainen, Olli. "Scandinavian Campaigns." in A Companion to World War II (2012) ed. by Thomas W. Zeiler : vol 1 pp 208–21.: Nissen, Henrik S. ed. Scandinavia during the Second World War (Nordic Series, number 9.)Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981). Given this, these seem to substantiate it as having its own distinct character. Also considering how other countries got involved, in their neighbour's situations (in particular Sweden in Finland and Norway), given the close relations between Nordic countries.
Deathlibrarian (
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01:52, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: Several reliable sources discuss the Nordic region in the context of WW2 and all Nordic countries were involved in the war. If the Nordic region, according to sources, can and should be regarded as one distinct theatre of war, then it should be relatively straightforward to write a summary based on scholarly sources. So far, this account for a Nordic theatre of war is missing from the article, accordingly this justification for the topic is also missing. — Erik Jr.22:31, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A combination of synthesized and original research rather than actual sourcing covering the collective topic as a single significant notable subject. Erik Jr lays it out well too.--
Yaksar(let's chat)08:10, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I was under the impression notability was established, and the rationale for deletion is based mainly on the validity of an overview article which supplies no overview. And partly on whether it is worth trying at all.
Prince of Thieves (
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09:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Notability as something distinct (a distinct theater of war) is not established (or still disputed). But I guess it is easier to reach consensus on lack of validity or value of a supposed overview article that does not provide overview. Per now the article does not add value, if nobody is able or willing to fix it then delete. — Erik Jr.17:49, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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This is a one-sentence sub-stub which has been tagged for lack of references for eight months and nobody's bothered to find any sources. It was brought to AfD by @
TheGracefulSlick: at which point I noticed it and tried to save everybody some time by
WP:A7-ing it. But, based on the number of complaints that people have left on my talk page, I guess folks just want to spend the next week arguing about this, so I've restored it and brought it back here. --
RoySmith(talk)20:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
This is no longer the one-sentence sub-stub I originally took objection to, and people have found some sources, so striking that. I'm neutral on whether the newly found sources are sufficient. --
RoySmith(talk)21:22, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
delete There are papers in Manchu studies, but we need an article that says something more about it than that people do this sort of research. At the moment we're stuck at a
WP:DICTDEF.
Mangoe (
talk) 21:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC) struck per expansion
Mangoe (
talk)
18:10, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Merge to either
Sinology or
Mongolian studies (deliberately avoiding an opinion on exactly which, because I can see a can of worms there). There would appear to be enough information to merge to one or the other of those places - the latter is the shorter article, if that's any help - but seemingly not enough for a standalone article itself.
BigHaz -
Schreit mich an05:49, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep now that the article has been expanded. One of the sources used is the "Manchu studies" entry in the BRE (the big Russian print encyclopedia), and there are plenty of sources around, so questions of standalone notability are moot. Neither of the two proposed merge targets are remotely suitable (and I agree that there's a can of worms if we decided to go that way). –
Uanfala (talk)12:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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(Delete) Regardless of whether the topic is valid or not, we should not host poorly sourced articles about the recruitment methods of proscribed terrorist groups. I would say ISIL/ISIS/whatever has used social media to a much greater extent than any group before them. But whether this fact requires any acknowledgement beyond a short paragraph in
Terrorism and social media which Iridescent identified is another matter.
Prince of Thieves (
talk)
20:28, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. Highly notable topic covered in depth in news and academia (and yes, IS is quite distinct social media wise in relation to AQ - contributing to their recruiting sucess) Not a content fork of
Terrorism and social media which barely covers IS. Title caps should be changed to Wiki standards (which are different from the standard outside of wiki). Article is not an ESSAY, and is not close to TNT. Being created as a wikied project is not grounds for deletion (and it actually usually means someone actually reviewed it for a grade). Wikilinking this into the project would not be difficult. Sourcing in the article is pretty good. Unless an actual fork is identified (and even then the correct call may ge merge) there are no grounds for deletion.
Icewhiz (
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20:38, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep There is significant coverage relating specifically to ISIS use of social media. For example: This showed up in my inbox today:
The page, as it stands, is pretty poor and I seriously doubt that the media makes the distinction between ISIS, affiliates, AQ and their spin offs etc but there is enough material out there relating to ISIS social media strategy and the people who execute that strategy to sustain an article on this topic.
Jbh Talk22:31, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - The article does need more content, yet the subject is certainly notable. ISIS at its peak power was intensely covered by the press along with its modus operandi - including its recruitment methods which included social media. The formatting of the title of the article does need to be changed though.
Knox490 (
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02:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep and NUKE As this stands, it warrants deletion on the basis of what is written as the content is pretty much atrocious, however the topic is quite noteworthy and covered by multiple RS. We should keep the article, but remove most of the junk and replace it with some high or passable quality material.
Elektricity (
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04:13, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep valuable coverage of a relevant, important, and widely discussed topic. Improving the article shouldn't be hard at all given the widespread RS and expert coverage. No this must not be subsumed under just "Terrorism and Social Media"--
Calthinus (
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05:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep without doubt this is a significant and valid topic. It is supported by solid sources, but, and more importantly, there is an enormous amount of sourcing available on this topic. Here's a google search on article title, The Usage of Social Media by The Islamic State:
[11]. The fact that article has room for improvement/expansion is not an argument for deletion.
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Fails
WP:NASTRO. No popular coverage. The only technical publication is the announcement of "275 CANDIDATES AND 149 VALIDATED PLANETS ...", so just one of many. No secondary or tertiary sources at all.
Lithopsian (
talk)
19:40, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
So why keep
K2-187c and and want to delete only K2-187b?
I didn't say I wanted to keep
K2-187c. Seems about as (non-) notable as K2-187b. 10:40, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
They all look to me to be in the same boat: they exist, but nothing to meet
WP:NASTCRIT. Just my opinion, but it seems like pretty poor taste to create all these articles while this discussion is ongoing. I would be happy to see them all included within this discussion, but adding them retrospectively feels a bit dodgy.
Lithopsian (
talk)
14:25, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I added a page for K2-187b and K2-187c because of the system’s unique architecture (K2-187 is the only star with 3 other planets so close to a planet orbiting less than 20 hours). Also, I’ve been analyzing this system since May 2017, and by September I had found the candidates that would become K2-187b and e (as well as a fifth potential candidate that wasn’t mentioned by Mayo et al). My findings are all on Exoplanet Explorers.
ProtoJeb21 9:55, 28 February 2018 (EST)
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WP:BLP of an academic, who has a valid potential notability claim but lacks the
reliable source coverage needed to properly support it. The only "references" here are his
primary source staff profiles on the websites of the institutions where he teaches, and I can't find any independent coverage of him anywhere else: on a ProQuest search, what I actually get is a lot of hits on a country singer who should rightly be
primary topic for this name (thus explaining why an anonymous IP filed this in ‹The
templateCategory link is being
considered for merging.›Category:Canadian country singer-songwriters earlier today, and why two of the five inbound links here are expecting a country singer). And if I search "Marcel Martel -country" to filter the singer out, I do find a few glancing namechecks of the historian's existence as a provider of soundbite, but no coverage about him: even in the narrower search, he's still vastly outnumbered by a former mayor of
Jonquière, a mafia hitman, and a convicted spousal abuser. (Those are three distinct people, just to clarify.) I just can't find the depth of coverage about him that would be required to get him an encyclopedia article, and academics don't get a free exemption from having to be referenced just because their own university faculty profiles verify that they exist.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep -- Meets
WP:NPROF Criterion 3 5 as the holder of a named chair at
York University, which is by any measure a major university. Furthermore, most of the guy's impact seems to be via his scholarship in French, so the google searches described above may have missed much of it. A scholar search turns up some well-cited monographs, and google searches for him in French reveal a great deal of coverage.
192.160.216.52 (
talk)
20:18, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's a bit beside the point, but after skimming some of the sources above I don't think that the singer should be the primary topic either. Martel seems to be a highly influential historian. I've just created a stub at
Marcel Martel (musician). If kept, I'd suggest this article be moved to
Marcel Martel (historian) and we create a disambiguation page for the two. –
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Keep inappropriate nomination. Subject is a high profile government official who has received very substantial coverage in teliavle independent sources.
FloridaArmy (
talk)
20:15, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep Satisfies
WP:POLITICIAN for "Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office" and "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." She has also receieved "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject of the article" to satisfy
WP:GNG.
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Apparently not notable by our standards, does not meet
WP:ARTIST. It seems she has had at least one exhibition at the Agora Gallery. I can find no news coverage whatsoever (perhaps because Kapoor is a common surname, and one
very famous artist has it). This was
a much longer article until I started removing some fairly fanciful unreferenced content, and a number of sources that were either patently unreliable or did not mention her at all. I stopped when there were just two "sources" left. They are: "Art Galleries Europe", an on-line selling site where
for €100 a year you can list up to fifteen artworks for sale, where she is listed as "Olivier Kapoor"; and the
Global Art Awards site, which apparently does not mention her at all.
Justlettersandnumbers (
talk)
19:03, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete vanity page: no RS In article and none found elsewhere. There is really only one Kapoor who is well known in the arts, and it is not this one. Olivia is more of a niche Kapoor. Non-notable, obviously.
104.163.148.25 (
talk)
03:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete No secondary sources to indicate notability. Appears to be a vanity project, created by an editor who has written little else.
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This is the third iteration of the article, deleted once A7 and once G11. Coverage already provided seems to be either of
dubious reliability,
coverage in the local paper, or
coverage in the local paper on sites of dubious reliability. Admittedly, they've made it in the Birmingham Mail at least three times, but three mentions in your local paper does not make notability. The claim that they've been on
the BBC seems to boil down more to a claim that they've uploaded a youtube video to a BBC site that hosts youtube videos.
Besides that fairly obviously either an autobiography or created by some other type of COI account with fairly promotional language throughout. Most of the content that might indicate notability re: winning international competitions, I didn't find anything to back up really other than this Wikipedia article, so they appear to be either made up, or apparently not important enough to warrant coverage in secondary sources.
GMGtalk18:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak deleteI was unsure about this, there does appear to be some limited mentions, and maybe there is more. Not helped by this
[40] (knew I recognized the name).
Slatersteven (
talk)
19:07, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's not even clear that's the same person. There is apparently someone by the same name associated with
Raspberry Pi, who all things considered, might not be notable, but seems like they may be more notable.
GMGtalk19:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I am not saying that the Rugby player is the saem person (sorry if my point was not clear) what I was saying is that there is more then one Ben Nuttall and this complicates trying to verify notability.
Slatersteven (
talk)
20:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
My bad. I dunno. When you just search for the name you get a ton of unrelated stuff, when you search for the name plus related phrases you get nearly nothing, and then only local coverage. At least the bit about "10 thousand fans on social media and over 1 million lifetime views" appears to be an outright lie, given
600 Twitter followers and
~3000 views on YouTube. Given that, and what appears to be a total lack of sources available, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other unsourced claims are also fabricated.
GMGtalk20:24, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete I don't think you can even apply NFooty here Giant, I think this straight down to, does he pass GNG, I'd say No. The article feels self written, and not enough independent citations for me.
Govvy (
talk)
14:58, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Hey
Szzuk. It wasn't AFAIK accepted through AfC, but was created both as an article in mainspace and as an AfC draft, and the histories of the two were then merged.
GMGtalk20:01, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete although it looks like this is actually a not yet approved AfC submission, so is this a sort of preemptive action, on the basis of the fact that AfC is set up so that the articles do not meet the same scrutiny as when they are actually created, as we have seen from recent cases where articles that had been deleted and salted were still approved through AfC.
John Pack Lambert (
talk)
16:29, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak delete fails
WP:GNG and
WP:NFOOTBALL. However, we should consider Draftifying, perhaps he might perform in a major avent soon.
Avaay
Maybe you'll forgive us if we're a touch suspicious of an account whose first edit was to add several userboxes about how much featured content they have contributed to?
GMGtalk14:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Delete. Voice actor with no evidence of notability. The nominator has not advanced a reason and inexplicably placed a db-author speedy deletion tag on this page at the same time. If the nominator no longer wishes to support deletion, then please consider me to be the nominator.
SpinningSpark18:25, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Refs are youtube, blogs, etc, nothing to indicate notability. I googled and looked on news, nothing i can see.
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Delete. I'm not 100% convinced that he shouldn't qualify as notable, but regardless, he was overwhelmingly rejected as non-notable less than a year ago and this article shouldn't have been re-created so soon.
Orser67 (
talk)
18:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - almost there, but not quite enough for
WP:PROF. (E.g. if he was editor of one of those journals he would qualify, but he is merely on the editorial board.)
StAnselm (
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18:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
As was established last time, having published a book that was reviewed does not make one notable. The fact that you re-created a deleted article not once, but twice, indicates that you likely have no objectivity on this matter. Chris Troutman (
talk)20:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I think if there were multiple reviews each of multiple books, it would make the subject notable per
WP:AUTHOR. But a newly published book and another one in the works, without reviews yet, are not enough. —
David Eppstein (
talk)
21:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. I'm not seeing any significant changes since the last AfD. Publishing a book is nowhere near enough to get an academic past
WP:PROF. We would be looking for multiple lengthy reviews and/or significant impact on the field. I'm sure Park's American Nationalisms is a fine work, but as it was published just three months ago, it's unlikely to have either.
As a general rule, assistant professors are very rarely found to be notable, so @
Hodgdon's secret garden:, if you are interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of Mormon scholars, I would start with people higher up the academic career ladder. I'm not convinced we have a systemic bias there, but it wouldn't hurt. –
Joe (
talk)
21:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete.There's only one book by a major academic publisher of research-level books. Norton is primarily a publisher of text books and general interest books (for evidence see its website
[41]). Furthermore, the source given for it is just the subject's own blog, and it only says a contract for it was signed, and admits that the book is only half written, not finished, and not finally accepted, and not published. Two actual published books by highest level publishers is the standard for tenure used by the most prestigious research universities in the humanities, (lower level ones tend to accept one book and a few papers). That's the level of distinction which indicates the person is not only influential in their field, but is expected to remain influential, and to remain sufficiently influential to be able to attract other first-rate scholars. I think it's fully enough to always meet WP:PROF unless there are other factors. One can't expect reviews until actual publication, but a book accepted by Cambridge University Press is certain to get such reviews -- the same sort of reasoning we use for major works in production by major companies artists and performers of various sorts. But the academic record is not yet sufficient for WP:PROF. It was not a wise decision to try the article again at this point in his career,. It would have had at least a chance if it had waited till the 2nd book was published and reviewed.
Joe Roe's advice to start at the top to increase the coverage of Mormon historians is just right. It's the right advice for any under-covered subject here. DGG (
talk )
21:53, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
wp:PROF itself clearly says it does not in any way rein in
wp:GNG. What this guideline does is to provide a means to document notability in cases where a prominent academic lacks sufficient treatments within the mainstream media.
This blp subject's case clearly is not that he's reached advanced status within Academe but that he's obviously notable as an
wp:author owing his place within Mormon letters, as an essayist/public intellectual often sought out as an opinion maker, and because of his next book-length work of ostensibly "popular" history that's being acquired by, yes, the trade press Norton, which allows editors to presume this historian/author will gain even more notability in the near future. See
this article about historians and "mere"(?) trade presses (which Norton's not so shabby of one. From Norton's website):
"... The Nortons soon expanded their program...acquiring manuscripts by celebrated academics from America and abroad and entering the fields of philosophy, music, and psychology, in which they published acclaimed works by Bertrand Russell, Paul Henry Lang, and Sigmund Freud (as his primary American publisher).
"... Since those early days, W. W. Norton & Company has consistently published books that reflect their social moment and resonate well beyond it. Some of the era-defining books published by Norton include The Feminine Mystique ... A Clockwork Orange ... Thirteen Days, Robert F. Kennedy’s firsthand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis; Present at the Creation, by Dean Acheson ... ; Liar’s Poker, which launched Michael Lewis’s decades-long chronicle of Wall Street’s greed and hubris; and The 9/11 Commission Report ....
The company...continues to print the work of some of the world’s most influential voices. Nobel Prize winners include Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Eric Kandel, Paul Krugman, Edmund Phelps, Joseph Stiglitz, and Harold Varmus; Pulitzer Prize winners include Dean Acheson, Jared Diamond, Rita Dove, John Dower, Stephen Dunn, Erik Erikson, Eric Foner, Annette Gordon-Reed, Stephen Greenblatt, Maxine Kumin, Joseph Lash, William McFeely, John Matteson, Edmund Morgan, and William Taubman.
"In recent decades, Norton’s national bestsellers have included books by Diane Ackerman, Andrea Barrett (also a National Book Award winner), Vincent Bugliosi, Andre Dubus III, Sebastian Junger, Michael Lewis, Nicole Krauss, Mary Roach, Jonathan Spence, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sean Wilentz, Edward O. Wilson, and Fareed Zakaria. ..."
Delete. Per the existing consensus, insufficient justification has been provided for why the last AfD shouldn't stand. Hodgdon's secret garden argued strenously for "Keep" in the first AfD, didn't like the result, and recreated the article 6 months later. They should be admonished at a minimum. The participants in the first AfD also ought to be pinged.
AbductiveXxanthippeJohnpacklambertBearianUhooepPeterkingironNarky_Blert (I am not
watching this page, so please
ping me if you want my attention.) --
Dr. Fleischman (
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22:59, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment. {{ping}} received. I have little to add to what I said last time round, except to say this. IMO 'Best Graduate Paper Award to Benjamin E. Park for "Early Mormonism and the Paradoxes of Democratic Religiosity in Jacksonian America," written last year at the University of Cambridge' bears no relation to the
University of Cambridge. To me, as a Cambridge graduate, that claim rings all sorts of alarm bells. Notably, in UK we do not use "graduate" as an adjective. "Graduate Paper" makes no sense to me at all. Neither does that University award any such prize.
Narky Blert (
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23:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Narky (I mean Blert, per British usage), I accept ur assertion uv graduated from a college at Cambridge. Kudos and well wishes in whatsoever ur endeavors (which may be or end up quite substantial, despite ur seemingly habitual tone of a mere
crank.)--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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01:36, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Question to
User:Narky Blert: I'm just curious. Do folks at Cambridge use the word since to mean "because" or only in also its meaning of "after"?
The fact is, the blp subject got his M.Hist.-"with distinction", via his research, from Cambridge Univ. -- the one that's in England -- a few years back. Since Owing to the U.S. being kinda low rent, Yank academics with just such a degree (note that he already had a M.Sc. in historical theology from the Univ. of Edinburgh) routinely designate it as a "PhD"[!] when they return to the United States. And, instead of his doing what would be considered the stand-up thing and get a real academic job in the U.S., the bio's subject stays a grad. student (sorry for the usage of graduate as an adj. there) in Cambridge. But, he accepts a "post" under Brigham Young Univ. prof. Flueman, who'd been asked to start up a
review journal for the new subdiscipline of Mormon Sstudies at the Maxwell Institute. See
link for mention @ the Max. I. of awards given to both doctor Flueman for his first published book at the Univ. of N.Carolina Press and to our yeoman Park, twice that year, for a paper and an unpublished graduate paper, in the subdiscipline of Mormon letters/academics. Does that clear things up for you?
But, anyway, I may as well now go ahead and complete this story: While helping Flueman edit Mormon Studies Review (and writing a fair number of reviews of some academic press-published book that he publishes elsewhere than Mo.Stud.Rev.) the subject hangs around at your alma mater as a lecturer and supervisor in the history dept. while he earns a (sic; um /"another"? <shrugs>) doctorate, then takes a "named" visiting scholar gig at the U. of Missouri in the States. Then gets an assist. prof. post at Sam Houston State. By then, I mean now, he
has a dozen or so articles pubbed in peer-reviwed journals. His first book published at Cambridge Univ. Press.
Reply to question. @
Hodgdon's secret garden: A good and a fair question. In British English, "since" is sometimes a synonym for "because". "He fell over, since he had dropped his walking stick" (in U.S. English, "walking cane") is good British English. When I trained as a patent agent, I was taught never to write "since" except in relation to dates because of its ambiguity between different variants of the English language. (Note my refusal there to split an infinitive!)
As a reverse example, in British English "comprises" means "consists of". ("Beethoven's Opus 18 comprises six string quartets.") In patent law, "comprises" means "contains or consists of". In U.S. usage, it can more broadly mean "includes". U.S. usage also seems to have "comprises of", which is not British English and to me looks ugly.
In Wiki, I try to avoid constructions like those; and if I find them, to edit them to ones with which all English-speakers can agree.
Narky Blert (
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21:18, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. H-index is still in the single digits. Advocacy for a particular person (since I can't see how this is advocacy for an article with single digit page views) isn't sufficient. Abductive (
reasoning)23:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete.
WP:TOOSOON for this recent PhD (2014) assitant professor. Fails
WP:PROF. He does have some coverage -
[42][43][44][45][46][47][48] (some interviews, some mentions of his writings, Newsweek mentions a blog post by him) - however this does not rise up to
WP:SIGCOV/
WP:GNG. Looking at what he's doing it seem he will be notable sometime if he continues - but not at the moment.
Icewhiz (
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11:37, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Park clearly fails academic notability guidelines. Maybe after his two in progress books get published (assuming that ever happens) things will be different, but at this time no. I would have to say in general Wikipedia is faily good at having article on the main scholars of Mormon studies. How well written and comprehensive some of these articles are, on people like
David F. Holland or
Hugh Nibley is another question, but we have the articles on most of the truly major contributors. Park has yet to produce the significant level of articles and books to make him a truly major contributor, despite the criticisms of some of his ideas that have been lobbed by Hancock and Hamblin. This article too much relies on coverage of things where Park is an incidental, non-defining member of a large group of people, and also too heavily relies on quotes from Park's own work. None of it adds up to actual significant coverage of a level to pass the general notability guidelines. Response articles to a book review by an individual do not count as the type of substantial 3rd party coverage of that individual that consititutes indepth coverage for GNG purposes, and the rest we have that is indepdent 3rd party, like the Salt Lake Tribune articles on the reworking of the set up of the BYU Maxwell Incident say almost nothing about Park, basically they just name check his existence.
John Pack Lambert (
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23:43, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A prospective article needs two reliable sources specifically about it. That's it. There's no seperate tracks w rgd this profession or that. Ben Park has a half dozen articles that are reliable sources which are specific to agreeing with, putting nuance to, or countering his--without co-author--views. According to foundational principles of the project, Wikipedians should be encouraged to create articles as often as possible whenever that threshhold is met. That builds the project. Instead what we have is people who try to align Wikipedia with what goes on in the academy (see !votes above by
user:DGG and by
user:Johnpacklambert). Most simply put, if this blp subject was an author who was not an academic and there were half dozen articles in RS, by people with their own WP blp's no less, entirely devoted to taking up positions she champions (of which Johnpacklambert briefly alludes), such notoriety alone would guarantee notability. Instead, deletionist cabals hover around afd's who but glance at an article for two or three seconds blithely mumbling "not notable" or grabbing whatever acronym seems handy. (Um,
wp:TOOSOON says film/actors s without two specific media mentions aren't sufficiently notable; what's that got to do with a blog co-founder and author of essays, etc., sought out for quotes a number of times by the MSM, who's published a major book?) ...or their sniffing about good usages per the Fowler brothers or godknowswhatelse!--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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01:39, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
A prospective article needs two reliable sources specifically about it. That's it. – how on earth did you come to that conclusion? To pass the
GNG, we need significant coverage, and JPL has eloquently explained why that threshold isn't met in this case.
WP:PROF provides an alternative set of criteria that is easier for academics to pass, because they are rarely the subject of significant biographical coverage. But unfortunately Park does not seem to meet that either. There is no conspiracy; we're just trying to apply fair and consistent standards for inclusion. –
Joe (
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11:47, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
OK,
user:Joe Roe, I'm game. My sense there exist deletionist cabals owes to my observations that so many glance-and-call-out-"delete" !votes become weighted w/in closings. Slam dunks to delete? Really?. Huh? My encapsulation of notability guidelines was pretty fair. But, fine, let us get more into the weeds then.
With a tip of my hat to the Bio's section @
wp:TOOSOON:
If the above is the criterion, how can ppl give a quick glance at Park's blp and come to "delete", after noting:
Citationd to themselves notable figures who address an in-depth intellectual thesis of Park's at great length in multiple reliable sources. This type of coverage is "trivial"? Says who!
Threshold #1 already met, fact is, WP editors are even given discretion to judge by gads of less-than-substantial sourcing (that are not merely trivial). What about the MSM coverages regarding the subject's new media platforms presenting his research/ideas as well as his trad. media op-eds/research papers & reviews published in journals?
IMHO to discount #1/huff at #2 seem deletionist ad hoc tools wielded to achieve what's their real objective which is to bypass WP's actual guidelines about media coverages so they can resort to their preferred mode of merely zeroing in on formal academic statuses. But, you know, it is what it is.-
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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21:16, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete -- I see two problems: TOOSOON and COI. Having acted as an academic referee is something that is known only to the referee and the editor. I thus suspect that this is an autobiography. Is that what the blacklist tag is highlighting? Secondly, this is a young academic who got his doctorate only about 4 years ago, and appearsto have published little.
Peterkingiron (
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15:38, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
erratum - Somewhere above I equated a Ox-/-Bridge MPhil(by research) to a phd Statesside. I just read that unlike the sixties/seventies and before, nowadays "securing posts" in academia with such a degree is quite rare.
[49]--
Hodgdon's secret garden (
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02:21, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Delete: I can't find any independent third-party
reliable sources for this completely unsourced article. There are several wikis entries which are no doubt mirror of this article but nothing else.
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16:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete I agree - there are a couple articles on gridiron in Ireland but I can't find anything specific about this team after doing some research. If sources are found the closer can assume my vote would change.
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Delete just writing poetry does not make someone notable, and that is all asserted here. We would need to see that his poetry is actually impactful and noticed to keep the article.
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Keep The article meets the general notability guideline. The EuroGamer article is significant coverage and covers the game in depth. EuroGamer is listed on the WikiProject Video games list of reliable sources
WP:VG/RS. WP:Crystal does not apply, as this article is not based on a product announcement or rumour. -
X201 (
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16:06, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
OK a question, what month is it going to be released in? If that date in unknown it is not yet in na fit state for release, which means it may still not be.
Slatersteven (
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18:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
)On the whole ones whose lack of release was historically important. Also otherstuff is not a valid argument for retention. But it looks like I am outvoted so it is all bit moot.
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20:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:CRYSTAL applies more to far less developed things. Things like Final Fantasy 17, something that will almost certainly exist, but has never officially been announced. Or speculative things, like "Untitled Final Fantasy Project 2019", based off of a comment made by a developer saying something like "Yeah, we'll keep making yearly Final Fantasy games indefinitely" or something. It's not meant to be applied to officially announced products with names, working builds, and reliable third party sources giving hands-on previews on already.
Sergecross73msg me20:41, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Have just added Edge info too. It's covered in the latest issue - subscriber copy arrived today - Will add more from it. -
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20:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep I was leaning keep after digging for sources myself earlier, which brought us to at least 5-6 in depth online sources. Since then, some offline sources have been added as well. Offline source to me, in this day and age, shows a lot, as unlike online webpages they can't just throw out every little tidbit without a care. Undoubtedly, there will be more. At the very worse, the article might be draftified for a while, but I believe it a short while and a waste of time, so Keep. --
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The result was delete. This is a very difficult close due to the high number of participants that can be said to have either a pro-India or pro-Pakistan POV. On balance, I am persuaded that the article does have a strong POV and large parts are a content fork. Many have brought up the WP:ATD argument that it is better to improve than delete. Against that others have argued, per
WP:TNT, that it is better to start over with a clean page. On this point I am particularly influenced by the research of Gazoth into the quality of the refs. To argue that the page should be improved presupposes that there are sources from which an improvement can be built. Many sources have been put forward, but no reliable, neutral source has been presented that discusses RAW in Pakistan in detail as a subject. To be sure, there are sources out there that discuss individual actions of RAW, but no scholarly source giving a balanced overview of the whole subject that could be used as the basis of a neutral article has been put forward. It is not essential to have such sources to build an article, it is possible to construct an article from sources that are not neutral and do not cover the whole subject, but this is much harder. It would need an editor of unquestionable neutrality to achieve that, and there would still be a need for at least one source that treated the title as a subject in itself to show notability.
SpinningSpark23:04, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:POVFORK of
Research and Analysis Wing. The entire page has a total of 4 sources all Pakistan newspapers. Has been proposed for deletion multiple times but the same editor insists that they have "balanced" this article. Much of the article is based on speculation and large parts of it are either poorly sourced or unsourced.
Adamgerber80 (
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00:23, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment How is the India Today (newspaper) a Pakistani newspaper? One of my references is India Today newspaper. Let the Wikipedia designated staff decide after they look at the article what the facts are. You clearly say on your User page that you are from Bombay, India. How can you be the ONLY JUDGE about this article's fate?
Ngrewal1 (
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01:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Ngrewal1 Another independent editor
GeneralizationsAreBad had also marked this page as a POV fork earlier (a year ago) and proposed it for deletion. You were the same editor who had removed it then by adding some "references" from Pakistani newspapers. Even now after it was proposed for deletion a year later you again removed it by adding more references from Pakistani newspapers and a single line from an Indian newspaper. Please look at
WP:NPOV which this article grossly violates. Also, have a look at the
Research and Analysis Wing article where most of this is covered with
WP:DUE weight age. Now, when it comes to my nationality, please be careful about your wording. I don't claim to be a judge of anything and have thus bought this at a common forum. If you doubt the effectiveness of this forum then I cannot help you.
Adamgerber80 (
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02:44, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
SNOW KEEP The nom should peruse
WP:BEFORE. There are numerous academic sources that discuss this in detail. For example India: Foreign Policy & Government Guide, Volume 1 [1], What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan, 1979 89 by Bruce Riedel [2], India's External Intelligence: Secrets of Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) by V. K. Singh [3], International Security and the United States: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1 by Karl R. DeRouen, Paul Bellamy [4] etc. etc.
Elektricity (
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05:01, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
This seems to be a hastily put up list of references. The second and fourth references don't have more than a few lines about
Research and Analysis Wing itself and make a passing reference to Pakistan. The first and third references contain some more information again which is about in general
Research and Analysis Wing. if there is some information which can be integrated with the main article with no reason to maintain this fork. I am yet to see any form of substantial information which can sustain an independent article and cannot be added in the main one.
Adamgerber80 (
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05:53, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
@
Adamgerber80 Your argument for deletion was The entire page has a total of 4 sources all Pakistan newspapers. I have shown you multiple academic sources discussing RAW activities within Pakistan, hence rendering the deletion argument null and void. You claim that information from these sources (and perhaps the 32 thousand other book results as well) can be incorporated in the main article, but I disagree. The main should focus on RAW and its day to day business, with a prolonged operational history in Pakistan; this should have been forked a long time ago. Your Second argument that you made in a comment is that the article may vioate POV forking. This is again, I'm afraid, not true. The article does not point to anything as fact, which is common in articles about clandestine agencies. Rather it says what the reliable sources have said and then attributes the information to reliable sources. As I said , you should have read
WP:BEFORE.
Elektricity (
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09:17, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The sources you point are about
Research and Analysis Wing and not it's activities in Pakistan. I can "find" references for many things but the question also remains do we have enough neutral reliable content which is needed for an individual article or can it be incorporated in the original one. You haven't shown any significant content here which merits a separate one. Just running a quick keyword search on Google Books is not going to work.
Adamgerber80 (
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15:10, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep of course. Nominator hasn't explained what is POVFORK about the topic. Issues about article material, if any, should be taken to the talk. That's not what
WP:AFD is for. So far as the topic is concerned, it meets
WP:GNG from all criteria. There's a long history of espionage and cross-border intelligence from India to Pakistan, and it's covered in all
reliable, academic sources. The cases of
Kulbhushan Jadhav,
Ravindra Kaushik,
Sarabjit Singh and
Kashmir Singh are amongst the most notable ones to merit mention. And at the international and diplomatic level, Pakistan and India have for decades traded allegations on RAW activities, right from the heads of state to military and government levels. So there is no question as far as notability is concerned, and this article is of equivalent scale to topics like
ISI activities in India,
CIA activities in India etc. Mar4d (
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08:02, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Interesting to see you acquainted with all these acronyms in your such short time of editing. Perhaps if you had actually also read
WP:OSE, you would have known it's an essay, and more fittingly, the following: The rationale may be valid in some contexts but not in other. The argument about notability stands and you have not dis-proven it. Mar4d (
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13:33, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete or redirect to the article on RAW, India's intelligence agency (or stubify). As Pakistan is India's most likely military opponent (if it goes to war), Pakistan must inevitably be a major focus for India's spying. This is a horrid article, which seems to be built on Pakistan's arrest of two alleged spies. If that is what they are, the article will still only be dealing with a snippet of what RAW musty be doing.
Peterkingiron (
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16:10, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Mentioned many references now. Most references are international or scholarly. Only 5 or 6 references mentioned are from Pakistan news media. 23-24 are exclusive of Paki references.
M A A Z T A L K 23:50, 26 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes I looked at your references. Most of them still state the same thing "according to Pakistan". Also, please do due diligence when you add references. For one, you literally added someones comment in the comment section as a reference here. Just don't google and add, please spend some time in reading the reference you are adding.
Adamgerber80 (
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00:28, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Actually I haven't found the according to Pakistan words in may references. Secondly, if an international news channel mentions a Pakistani narrative, it doesn't mean that its an unreliable source, but on the contrary, it adds to notability.
M A A Z T A L K 21:54, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Should I
WP:ILIKE a multiple times prodded article? If I had, then your reaction would be just different but I am fine. Right now every comment is up for debate and you can also debate until things AFD is over. —
MapSGV (
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15:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It fails
WP:GNG. You are suggesting that we should abandon concerns of this article and work on them in future.. why not now? By deleting the POVFORK. —
MapSGV (
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01:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Because all of those references fail to describe the importance of this trivia. By your own comment it seems that you have worked on over citing references than actually providing any relevant references, but that's not really possible because subject is itself not qualified for own article. —
MapSGV (
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01:06, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Not much of what you are saying makes sense to me. I have worked on citing references than actually providing references? that is quite contradictory. And references, especially international sources and google books doesn't fail to describe importance of an article, but on the contrary it adds to their importance. I think you are being slightly inconsistent here.
M A A Z T A L K 21:57, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - individual issues can be discussed without resorting to total deletion of the page. Also agree with user samee ‘s reasoning above.
Willard84 (
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01:24, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
There’s a lot of at least alleged activity and information, especially in regards to recent events with Jadhav. I retain my view as keep.
Willard84 (
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11:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete and merge to
Research and Analysis Wing: I see no reason why this subject meets GNG when it is just a
WP:CFORK, largely depending on two allegations refuted by everyone. It also seems to be a violation of
WP:NOTPROPAGANDA. I recommend merging this into the "Research and Analysis Wing" article, where we can devote an appropraite amount of space to it. A separate article is
WP:UNDUE. --
1990'sguy (
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04:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Agree with nominator that this is a
WP:POVFORK. The article only focuses on a single viewpoint of RAW involvement, in spite of many refs giving substantial weight to opinions that accusations have been made to cover-up internal issues. (
[51],
[52],
[53],
[54]). A substantial part of article is either a list of accusations or statements of Indian involvement in general rather than RAW specifically. There are also multiple sourcing issues in the article including statement contradicted by reference placed near it (
[55]), op-ed used as a ref (
[56]), news reports on other reports used to artificially inflate ref count (
[57] reports on
[58],
[59] reports on
[60]), usage of opinions from fringe theorists (
[61] from a 9/11 truther) and using WikiLeaks ref to cite an unreliable website (
[62] originally from
[63]). The remaining well-sourced content can added to
Research and Analysis Wing article. —
Gazoth (
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07:43, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
This is not a reason to delete the article. An article should be neutral and feel free to add/remove the content with the references you want to add or remove. I haven't mentioned non-reliable sources.
M A A Z T A L K 21:51, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep My formal !vote for this article is still 'keep' after a thoughtful consideration besides the above first 'Comment' in this discussion by me. If there is room for articles on Pakistani intelligence agencies (Pakistan's ISI etc.) on Wikipedia, then we all know Wikipedia's policy is all about 'striking balance' and being fair. That's exactly why I attempted to improve the article when I first saw it nominated for deletion on 24 February 2018. I still hope and ask that people who wish to 'keep' it as an article, are given a chance to improve it further.
Ngrewal1 (
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18:16, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Ngrewal1 Please let's set the records straight if we are going there (not that it matters). I looked at the history of the page and this not the first time you have de-prodded the article. The article was also proposed for deletion (by
GeneralizationsAreBad[64]) on 11 July 2017 a day after it was created. You removed this on 16 July 2017(
[65]) and inserted a few Pakistan newspaper sources. It's been more than 8 months now and only more POV content was added to it prompting me to propose it (after I came across it) for deletion again. This was again removed by you by adding a few more Pakistan newspaper sources. Also, on your second comment,
WP:GNG is not inherited or associative per
WP:OTHERCONTENT and this was even said by
Ma'az (user maing the same point below) on a AFD sometime ago (
[66]). I wonder why does that argument change now.
Adamgerber80 (
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23:04, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Our main argument is, because the article is notable and passes
WP:GNG, its notability is proved. You are misinterpretting by bringing in
WP:OSE. Look if a person says that article
Canada should be created because article
USA exists, it doesn't mean that main point for article Canada is
WP:OSE. Main point is
WP:GNG, and after that we are calling for consistency. And you mentioned
WP:OTHERCONTENT, it reads "While these comparisons are not a conclusive test, they may form part of a cogent argument".And about my famous AFD :) (as it was featured by media) :) i think even you know that you are trying to confuse one thing with another. That article was on a biography which is a different discussion.
M A A Z T A L K 20:14, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I would recommend you to go back and read your argument once again since it seems very incoherent to me. You go from
WP:GNG to consistency to explaining how connecting this to
WP:OTHERCONTENT is per policy. But you forget to mention that
WP:OTHERCONTENT also states that is comparison can only be made "with Featured article, Good article, or have achieved a WikiProject A class rating" and should be "compliant with core policies such as neutral point of view and no original research". This article is definitely not NPOV as pointed by multiple editors and quite a few of the references itself are questionable as pointed by others and what
WP:RSN has told you about Wikileaks. Second, the point on
WP:GNG, you are mis-associating the
WP:GNG of R&AW with the topic of this article.
WP:OTHERCONTENT argument is valid in all subject discussions, unless you don't want to see it or are ignoring it. Lastly what you mean by our main argument. You are here to make your personal argument, not represent others.
Adamgerber80 (
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20:46, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Nothing inconsistent, I just said that
WP:OSE is valid under
WP:GNG, just like an article about
Canada is valid if
USA exists. And to
WP:NPOV, look we all know that in political issues(especially bipartisan issues) on Wikipedia, its almost impossible that the article would be 100% neutral (that's why there are edit conflicts on political issues almost everyday), as a reliable source from one country might be opposite to a reliable source of another (that's why the article mentions mostly foreign sources and google books), so its not that non-neutral. And I don't get why you cannot edit the article just like
User:FloridaArmy did here
[67] and
User:Adamgerber80 did here
[68], Nobody challenged their edit. You can also edit the article and can also use
WP:ATD. And about WikiLeaks, the RSN agreed that a WikiLeaks source can be mentioned with another RS(good context), in the article, Reference 11 (WikiLeaks source) is mentioned with reference 10 & reference 19 with 21.
M A A Z T A L K 01:55, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Just because a a few foreign media/Wikileaks mentions that "according to Pakistani officials or Pakistani newspapers" does not make it neutral. It is still POV since they are directly quoting Pakistan here. Here is one in non-Pakistani media which is the interview of a Pakistani minister, another mentions that "Pakistan has complained", yet another states that "Pakistan officials accuse", another says "blamed by Pakistani authorities". And these are not Pakistan newspapers but foreign media sources you have used. I am sorry if you cannot see the POV which multiple other editors can. Also, by your comments that not all article are neutrals are betrays that even you think that the article is not truly NPOV.
FloridaArmy My comment might answer some of your questions.
Adamgerber80 (
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02:21, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
WP:OSE is not absolutely invalid criteria. It can be valid and in this case, the article is as notable as its equivalent; Wikipedia should be consistent. Consistency is the hall-mark of any reasoned discussion.
M A A Z T A L K 09:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak Delete - In my opinion, the current version of the article fails
WP:NPOV, a core policy. The subject is notable and is briefly covered in the main article, this fork could be useful, but after a weak at AfD, the lede sentense and background sections are still, I feel, strongly POV.
Smmurphy(
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Tagging for NPOV is not a permanent solution. Given this is a fork, it isn't clear why it should be mantained in its current state given our readers might be better served by the operations and controversies section in the base article.
Smmurphy(
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Delete this is not an article about RAW (The Indian intelligence services) activities in Pakistan. It is an article about accusations against RAW by Pakistani officials. It is a clear POV fork. I don't see how it is redeemable. The subject is best covered in the main article.
FloridaArmy (
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23:02, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I think RAW's activity in relation to TTP, Balochistan, CPEC, ISI is quite significant and well established by many sources(including foreign). However, in political and especially bipartisan issues, one can always raise this point, that its all accusations. A source saying Pakistani officials have shared a video, doesn't mean that its accusation, it means its a proof of RAW activity. Webster Tarpley, James Dobbins, Praveen Swami, and many other authors, all these are quite significant mentions.
M A A Z T A L K 01:50, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment For users arguing for merge into the main article, they still need to explain how it would be feasible taking into account content size per
WP:SPLITTING. It would be impossible to merge and expand such large amount of content, unless you want the RAW article to mostly be about Pakistan. Mar4d (
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05:43, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Where have I attacked anyone? I have just stated my observation on the lack of clarification with regards to many of these votes. Mar4d (
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06:24, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment I would lean keep and want a improved article. I agree with User:Elekricity. There is definitely an Indian
WP:CABAL who is flooding the nom with 'Speedy delete' and 'delete' votes. Can you tell me why 'speedy delete'? They're only trying to influence the result. I suggest the closing admin to through check the rationale and even discount Pakistani and Indian votes. There are two or three Pakistani users who voted 'keep' but dozens of Indian users who are actually cabal try to influence every discussion: be it Kashmir, Rape in India or Violence in India against Muslims. I think this discussion need more neutral votes from western perspective. It is similar in nature to article, ISI activities in India or other place. Please don't be bias and work to improve WP. There are less Pakistani users so don't take advantage from it. Thanks.
119.160.116.141 (
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18:54, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - There are plenty of book sources. Whatever the current article quality, it doesn't merit deletion. Now that the article is in the limelight it could be brought to Wikipedia quality and policy standards. For example:
1. "There are also some indications that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the Indian intelligence agency, may be involved in fomenting terrorism, sectarian and otherwise, in different parts of Pakistan, particularly in Karachi and Balochistan."[1]
2. "On January 29, 1999, an Indian saboteur, Subhash Chander, was apprehended by the security agencies of Pakistan for carrying out bomb blasts in Sialkot. The then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, brought this Indian activity to the notice of the US Deputy Secretary of State, Strobe Talbot, who was on a visit to Pakistan."[2]
3. "RAW reports to the Prime Minister and is reportedly involved in disinformation campaigns, espionage and sabotage against Pakistan and other countries. Throughout the Soviet/Afghan War the RAW was responsible for the planning and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan to deter Pakistan from support of Afghan liberation movement against India's ally, the Soviet Union."[3] --
39.48.42.250 (
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07:06, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Authors are mentioned and the sources are reliable. I think there is high skepticism going on over sources. Its like you are finding reasons to somehow belittle an authentic source.
M A A Z T A L K 19:22, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Non-notable canned food company and meat brand. The article was PRODed by me, but the PROD was removed without addressing the notability concerns and with a request to perhaps take to AfD for a wider discussion without specifying why. The article is currently based on one single source from Liverpool Echo.
The Danish company Hafina Konserves A/S (earlier name Hafnia Skinkekogeri A/S), one of many Danish canning factories in the 1960s,[1] existed as a company until 1971 when it was bought by
Jydske Andelsslagteriers Konservesfabrik[2](no article on Danish Wikipedia either), perhaps better known under the acronym JAKA for products like
this. JAKA and a number of other food companies fused in 1990 to form
Tulip Food Company [
da,[3] which is today owned by
Danish Crown.
"Hafnia" and "Hafnia Ham" had existed on the British market since 1956.[4] As a brand name, Hafnia continued to exist on the British market after the 1971 buyout, and sponsored the shirts for
Everton F.C. between 1979 and 1985 supposedly. Hafnia Ham, a U.K. subsidiary of Tulip, continues to exist as a
dormant company.
Hafnia products were also sold in North-America, at least as early as 1925.[5]
Still, I'd be surprised if anybody can source this to [[
WP:NCORP]] and [[
WP:CORPDEPTH]]. I can't. Should the article be kept, it should be moved to
Hafnia (company).
^Mann, S.A. (1968).
European Food Processing Industry, 1968. Chemical process reviews. Noyes Development Corporation. p. 36. Retrieved February 27, 2018. There are about 30 companies involved in the production of canned meat in Denmark, the most important of which are Plumrose, Tulip, DAK, Jaka, Esbjerg Andels-Slagteri and Hafnia Konserves. In addition to the regular canning plants, canning takes place in many bacon factories.
^"Jaka". AarhusWiki (in Danish). February 27, 2018. Retrieved February 27, 2018.
^Andelsbladet (in Danish). 1991. p. 50. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Tulip International Tulip International er dannet af forædlingsselskaberne Danepak, Jaka, Normeat og Tulips egen forædlingsdivision. Den største aktionær er Danish Crown, der sammenlagt kontrollerer 45 pct. af kapitalen.
^Denmark, Industrirådet (1964).
Tidsskrift for industri (in Danish). p. 172. Retrieved February 27, 2018. Salget sker dels gennem Hafnia Ham Company i London, resp. New York og dels gennem et net af agenter rundt om i Verden. I de senere år er salgsaktiviteten på hjemmemarkedet blevet intensiveret med godt resultat, således at HAFNIA-produkterne er ved at blive almindeligt kendte og eftertragtede også på hjemmemarkedet. Inden for virksomheden gøres der til stadighed nye forsøg, dels med henblik på forbedring af bestående produkter og dels med det formål for øje at ...
^The New Yorker. The New Yorker. F-R Publishing Corporation. 1925. p. 68. Retrieved February 27, 2018. The canned Hafnia ham, lately arrived from Denmark, is a most delicately cured meat, which, although it has none of the pungent smokiness so valued in our own fine hams, makes very pleasing cold refreshment. Its flavor and tenderness come, it is readily perceived, from the extreme youth of the Danish pigs and from their careful upbringing and diet, rather than from the hateful and misguided tenderizing process most of our domestic hams are subjected to. The Hafnia ham is to be ...
Delete I sent to speedy on A7, declined by Sam Sailor on the basis it has a claim to significance. I can see no assertion of notability. It is a defunct company.
Szzuk (
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19:48, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Yes, having spend several hours trying to find sources with significant coverage, I am well aware of the the
number of trivial mentions, but finding significant coverage online proves difficult. And I say that with the added benefit of understanding the Danish sources, and in general enjoying
rescuing articles from deletion.
The
WP:SOURCESEARCH, and
WP:ITSOOLD arguments should be avoided, and I'm not impressed with the first "keep" voter posting here after only 10 minutes of research (
06:05-
06:15) and the second "keep" voter after only 4 minutes of research (
11:23-
11:27).
The New Torker article from 1925, the San Francisco Magazine article, the articles cited in the article, and the recently added article about the brands relaunch and team sponsorship establish notability. As you noted lots and lots and lots of mentions too. But the sources discussing the company and its products are enough.
FloridaArmy (
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12:34, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
A. The citation to The New Yorker was presented by me in this discussion, and from the snippet view we get in Google books, it can not be considered significant coverage about the company.
B. San Francisco Magazine article - it would be helpful to link to the sources, here is what I presume is the citation:
San Francisco. San Francisco Magazine, Incorporated. 1965. p. xliii. Retrieved February 28, 2018. with the insignificant snippet "The most widely distributed brand of canned bacon in this area is Hafnia, which is imported from Denmark. I have used it many times ..."
C. the articles cited in the article, and the recently added article about the brands relaunch and team sponsorship establish notability - there are only two, both of them from the local media Liverpool Echo, both of them more about football than about Hafnia. I'm not even sure they are correct, when they claim Hafnia ham was never sold in Britain, cf. the sources above.
Delete -- Article fails
WP:CORP for lack of significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Searching through Danish sources, I found very little for "Hafnia Skinke" or "Hafnia Konserves," let alone any in-depth coverage. There are only simple mentions -- just as in the English language publications and Google books mentioned above. (And some of it is fairly confused such as info in the small Liverpool daily paper.) I agree with Sam Sailor's analysis; and am surprised that an article does not yet exist for
Tulip Food Company which had the first registered trademark in Denmark. That could be a place to redirect. But there is not enough clear information yet to establish a stand-alone article for Hafnia. —
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Update: As my rationale was deleted with the duplicated AfD: The passing mentions in the
reliable sources, are about the film based on the same event. This film fails
guidelines for upcoming films. The principle photography hasnt begun yet. The cast has not been announced yet either. —usernamekiran
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Delete. There isn't even an article on the topic itself, so why is there what amounts to to a spin-off article? WP isn't a consumer guide. Also, "Google hits" is NOT a reliable source. --
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Weak Delete - The general topic is, to me, encyclopedic. Sources on it are not difficult to find (
for instance), and there is a discussion of it at
Islam in India#Conversion controversy. However, there isn't a clear need for a timeline, it doesn't seem encyclopedic, it seems to have a taste of
WP:RIGHTINGWRONGS,
WP:NPOV, and
WP:NOR, as the sources and content do not take a broad approach, but focue on specific examples to make a point which is unclear to me.
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Merge and Redirect to
Matt Nathanson. All releases by this label (not be confused with
Acrobat Music) seem to be related to Nathanson, and the label itself has no independent notability, as demonstrated by the profound lack of coverage by independent, reliable sources.
YilloslimeTC18:54, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Matt Nathanson – this is purely a vanity label for the artist, failing
WP:CORP, and I don't think there's anything to merge really. None of his albums or EPs before 2006 charted, but they all have articles, so they could probably be redirected as well.
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Delete as per nom, the article contains self published references and dead links so it seems to have not established enough notability guidelines.
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Delete. Appears to be a small company, the refs in the article don't suggest notability, i googled for news and there are a few bits there, but not enough. Coverage revolves around their use of celebrities and venture capital funding.
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The result was no consensus. There be dragons here. The list that exists now is significantly different from what it was when this AfD started, so it's hard to know how to interpret/weight the early comments.
It sounds like there's basic agreement that we should have some way of navigating dragon space, it's just not clear how the lists should be organized. That's basically a content dispute, which is better worked out on the talk pages. --
RoySmith(talk)17:56, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Article is a duplicate of
List of dragons. Even if it were made into an actual list of lists, there are simply not enough notable lists to merit the existence of one. (Technically the article was incorrectly moved here and List of dragons is the duplicate, but it makes more sense to nominate this one as the incorrect title.)ZXCVBNM (
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*Delete. Firstly it's not a list of lists, secondly it duplicates a topic which already exists (at
List of dragons).Keep, I don't agree with completely rewriting an article during the AfD process, but now it actually resembles a list of lists so my vote has changed. List of dragons should be nominated for AfD instead (or redirected elsewhere).
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17:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
That's more lists of dragons than I realized. I'd say that such a list would be fine to keep. In fact, I'll just change the content right now, if that's alright. ~
Mable (
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15:50, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just changed the article as suggested. That being said, you could definitely argue that these lists can all be listed in
List of dragons as well, seeing as they are all sublists. Also, some of these (popular culture in particular) should probably get AfD'd as well. ~
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Keep: the sales figure is certainly nonsense, and the Entertainment Weekly review no longer has its rating, but the AllMusic and Rolling Stone reviews still do and are reliable, and it has charted on two Billboard charts... that's enough to pass
WP:NALBUM.
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16:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's actually kind of weird, both AllMusic and Rolling Stone use both spellings at different points of the same review. They even handle it differently in how they do it too. AllMusic calls it Gametime as the database entry, and Game Time in the review prose, while Rolling Stone calls it Game Time in the database entry, and Gametime in the review prose. I'm not sure which one is correct, but since there's already a completely separate article at
Gametime, it may be preferred to keep it at its current name as to not have to add disambiguation to things, per
WP:NATURALDIS.
Sergecross73msg me13:54, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep - meets
WP:NALBUMS and the
WP:GNG. The album was released on a major record label, charted on multiple major charts, and had two notable charting singles. Additionally, AllMusic, Rolling Stone, and Entertainment Weekly are all reliable sources per
WP:RSMUSIC. Given the characteristics above, and the fact that the album was released in 2002, when music sources were still sometimes locked away in print magazines, makes me think it's reasonable to think there's more sourcing out there as well.
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fails
WP:GNG,
WP:WEB. Neither has this blog received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, nor does it have any historical significance. To the extent the contributors of the blog might be notable, that, in and of itself, may not be in any way construed as conferring notability to the subject itself (see
WP:INHERITWEB). —
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Unclear what makes being released commercially notable. It seems like there is no limit to the list, and it seems to be indiscriminate. WP is also not a commercial directory of film scores
‡ Єl Cid of ᐺalenciaᐐT₳LKᐬ21:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I am limiting it to commercial releases because they are widely available and standardized. An isolated score that was burned onto a CD wouldn't be available to everyone and the track names would be different. I think there would be great interest in which scores were available from which movies. I'm not trying to make it commercial in any way, simply stating what is available and what isn't.
Parmadil (
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unsigned comment added by
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01:36, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment: How would you differentiate "score" from "soundtrack"? Some movie soundtracks include both pop/rock songs and an orchestral instrumental score, e.g. Romeo + Juliet. Does it have to be an classical orchestral score, or would you include
Vangelis's score for Blade Runner,
Jonny Greenwood's Bodysong, or the
RZA's Japan-only release of the soundtrack to Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai? If you're going to include all commercially available soundtrack albums this is going to be an enormous list, because so many films have accompanying soundtrack albums – not just Hollywood and European films, but Bollywood movies and even some low-budget independent arthouse films.
Richard3120 (
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20:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete and Improve Other Articles - I agree with the others above that this list could get out of hand without a precise definition of "released" and how that applies to notability for each listed item. But it appears that
User:Parmadil is knowledgeable on this topic and wants to add to Wikipedia's coverage of it. So I instead would suggest that knowledge of score recordings and their histories be developed at the articles for the respective movies,
Birth of a Nation>Score for example. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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Contribs)21:33, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
There are lists of motion pictures that are sorted by nation and year, which would be broader than this is. And I plan on using the first and/or most complete score, not every release. For the person who says, "I wonder if the score for such-and-such was ever released." Sometimes the entire score is only released as a re-recording.
Parmadil (
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delete First off, the title promises the printed music, not recordings. But yeah, when you get to recordings, release these days is the norm, not the exception, so this is hugely
WP:INDISCRIMINATE.
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While there is some coverage for this place in reliable sources, they mostly tend to be passing mentions, or at best pages that discuss it together with other public spaces in the Bay Area. As it stands, I couldn't find enough significant reliable coverage that focused specifically on this.
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The Dallas Observer articles are two interviews with the band's lead singer (primary sources) and an event listing (trivial coverage); Allmusic is user-generated content; the book entry is a passing mention that confirms Slaven as the lead singer, and not much else. I did consider these sources (except the book, which is a new one to me) prior to nominating, but concluded that they were not sufficient to meet the notability criteria. However, YMMV.
Yunshui雲水10:44, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Leaning keep: there's probably just enough in the Dallas Observer and AllMusic coverage to pass notability. Plus they have two very notable past members who have subsequently played on multiple charting records by other bands... I know notability isn't inherited, but it means there is a good chance Ten Hands was mentioned in the background of these members when articles have been written about these charting bands.
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Hi SmartSE, I believe that
Mila Jam meets both requirements as a recording artist with a large following. She also performed as
Britney Houston with millions of views on her videos. I have seen many other pages with less external references and citations on wikipedia. Please let me know what else you feel is lacking on this page.
Keep I clicked though the sources and she appears to easily pass
WP:GNG as she's been discussed in depth in many reliable sources. A quick Google News search also brings up many more examples of significant, in-depth coverage, further indicating she's a notable person.
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The subject has been complaining on OTRS about this BLP for years for it being unfair, and inaccurate which is damaging to his reputation. I tried to fix some issues but he's not satisfied and want a large chunk of material be taken down which is sourced and I'm not in position to remove it outright upon his request.
I don't really see any major notability here , and now the subject has requested deletion on otrs: 2014022610016708. . so I'm bringing it here for community permission to delete.
Saqib (
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07:48, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete per request. I'm disappointed that we've produced an article which has upset Mr Rahman so much. I don't see the contentious content (I see some minor age and address information reproduced from a local newspaper), and can see nothing that is either inaccurate or damaging.
However WP:N is the ability to have an article, not a requirement to. If he doesn't want it, and there's no public interest where we ought to record some dreadful wrongdoer despite that (Mr Rahman has been so constructive in his community that he's been rewarded for it), then we shouldn't force anyone into a biography they don't want.
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10:15, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. BLP request from a marginally notable or possibly not notable individual. He averages 4 page views per day on WP so no great loss.
Szzuk (
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18:14, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete nothing comes even close to showing notability. Producing poetry does not make one notable, nor does getting extremely local awards for volunteering, nor does being an editor of non-notable publications, or somewhere down the line on somewhat notable publications. I am actually trying to figure out why this article was ever created, and not seeing any reason to have created it.
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WP:BLP of an actor and writer, not referenced to any
reliable source coverage about him for the purposes of clearing a Wikipedia notability criterion. Pretty much right across the board, the references here are to
IMDb and other
primary sources that cannot support notability at all -- and literally the only reliable source in the entire article is a short piece in the community weekly pennysaver of a small town, which would be fine for some verification of facts if all of the other sources were solid but is not in and of itself a GNG pass as an article's only reliable source. The extent to which a literary or theatre award counts as a notability claim, for example, is entirely coterminous with the extent to which the media write about that award as news -- a minor award such as the "Global Ebook Awards" does not count as a notability claim if you have to depend on the award's own
self-published website about itself as the source because media coverage of that award is entirely non-existent. Basically, none of the sourcing is cutting it at all, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt the sourcing from having to cut it. In addition, there's a likely
conflict of interest here, as the creator has never made a single edit to Wikipedia that wasn't directly related to Chiang in some way — apart from these three articles, the only others the editor has ever touched at all were actresses who've worked with Chiang. I'm also bundling his two works which have separate articles here as well, as neither of them cites any better sourcing to properly support their notability than his main BLP does.
Bearcat (
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22:23, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Thanks for raising your concerns about George Chiang's Wikipedia page. We appreciate your input and want to address the points you've brought up.
We understand the importance of reliable sources in establishing notability. We have taken this into consideration and have included articles from reputable publications like the Toronto Star, National Post, and Toronto Sun. These articles highlight George Chiang's achievements and showcase his impact in the entertainment industry.
Lily Lu22 (
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15:53, 12 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Note that a total of three articles are nominated for deletion herein.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America100007:46, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment There is a
rabble.ca article on the author and the book:
[71] which I think meets
WP:RS, not sure if that's enough. The musical has quite a few Chinese-language sources, all from Sep. 2014 Hong Kong, and the actors also went on a
Now TV (Hong Kong) talk show to promote it:
[72].
Timmyshin (
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19:09, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Actually, Rabble doesn't count as a reliable source for our purposes — it's an activist group blog, not a conventional media publication. I read it a lot myself, but that's quite separate from its usability as a reference for Wikipedia content. And we can't source to YouTube clips, either — a play gets over Wikipedia by being the subject of media coverage written by other people, not by uploading YouTube clips of its own cast talking about it on talk shows.
Bearcat (
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19:25, 6 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Thank you for notifying us. We couldn't find any relevant discussions related to George Chiang or Golden Lotus. Could you please provide more information or clarification?
Lily Lu22 (
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16:16, 12 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Same as above, couldn't find any relevant discussions related to George Chiang or Golden Lotus. Could you please provide more information or clarification?
Lily Lu22 (
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16:17, 12 July 2023 (UTC)reply
Same as above, couldn't find any relevant discussions related to George Chiang or Golden Lotus. Could you please provide more information or clarification? Thanks
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The result was keep. Would have been speedy keep as well since no valid argument for deletion was presented.
SoWhy10:43, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep-Seems borderline notable, TOI and India express have covered her marriage and her performance in the two notable films. Given that the article being promotional in nature is the primary reason for this AFD I will vote keep as this is more of a content issue. Otherwise I am leaning delete
শুভ দোলযাত্রা — FR™15:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The sources demonstrate that she is notable as she's received significant coverage over time in many secondary sources about her work and her personal life.
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User:Donaldd23 has a point. This article has been tagged for notability for four years, and the tag has remained without the article making a better case for
WP:GNG. Subject doesn't meet it, may only be here because of her famous relatives, but notability is
WP:NOTINHERITED. –
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Comment. Inclined to keep. I found some coverage (
[73],
[74],
[75]) but the main claim to notability is the charting single. This is where I'm struggling, because I can see in the 2003 Billboard Music Yearbook on GBooks that she reached no. 16 on a Billboard chart in 2003 and no. 89 on another (
[76]), but on the billboard.com site I can only see no. 89 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (
[77]). The article, meanwhile, claims it reached no. 3 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart and also reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. So potentially notable for a hit single, but it needs a bit more digging to find out exactly which places she hit on which charts.
This (you can see more of it in GBooks search results than in the preview) states that at the time she had "scored a national hit with the single "No Means No," which shot up to No. 18 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart and No. 4 on the magazine's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart", which suggests the claims in the article are probably correct, and that she is notable, but
this issue of Billboard shows it at no. 20 on the Hot 100 Singles Sales (not the Hot 100 itself), so maybe this is the chart being referred to. Either way she's had enough of a hit to satisfy
WP:NMUSIC, and we have enough coverage for a well-enough sourced stub. --
Michig (
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19:07, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep — passes
WP:MUSICBIO criterion #2, because the single "No Means No" was on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart, reaching #19. I added a citation from
Google Books. Hot 100 Singles is listed as a preferred chart at
WP:GOODCHART. Reaching #4 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales chart is also sufficient. Reaching #89 on the
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart is also sufficient.
[78], so the bio meets MUSICBIO on at least three charts that are listed as acceptable for this standard. Could go on talking about other kinds of coverage to meet GNG, but it's unnecessary as far as AfD is concerned. --
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00:27, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
I don't understand. You don't think there's sufficient sourcing to establish that the song was on these charts? Or that MUSICBIO is actually pointless, because if a topic meets the criteria there, that isn't really enough, and some other unspecified criteria are also needed? Is it "just not there" because you say so? It seems like you're making a kind of nebulous argument.
WP:GNG says it's notable if "It meets either the general notability guideline below, or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific guideline listed in the box on the right". Either this, or that. One or the other. Over on the right, we have
Wikipedia:Notability (music) and this bio meets the criteria. You aren't required to change your !vote to keep if you choose not to, but I don't see you making any argument other than "
it's just not notable". --
Dennis Bratland (
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04:23, 1 March 2018 (UTC)::reply
I thought I was sufficiently clear throughout this by citing GNG that I don't believe this has the sourcing to be notable. That's the whole purpose of the general notability guideline. It meets that subject-specific guideline, without good in-depth sourcing to justify it. That's fine. It was mentioned at my RfA that I lean deletionist and your comment reminds me of that. So, in the spirit of good faith, I'm withdrawing this. –
Muboshgu (
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04:37, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Artist satisfies
WP:MUSIC for "Has had a single or album on any country's national music chart." That has been well established in the article by reliable, independent sources.
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I stumbled across this orphaned article that has not had a major edit since 2014. The page creator has not made an edit since 2014 either. To me, this article reads more like an essay, or a research or academic paper, exploring how elements of the artistic program of an Olympic opening ceremony can be used to impress an international audience. I though about merging it to
Olympic Games ceremony#Artistic program, but again, most of the content to me reads like something found in a personal essay or scientific journal. It has sentences like "Lighting maximizes the visual impact of the program" or "Music can be used as a powerful tool to manipulate emotions". The article's references are primarily to other scientific journals. Therefore, this article should be deleted per
WP:NOTESSAY or
WP:NOTJOURNAL.
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This promotional page claims to be an award winning artist but on the 2013 win he was only the producer, not the artist. A number of the sources are unreliable, the rest seem to be passing mentions. non notable
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06:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
delete - Subject not notable, so does not meet
WP:BIO. I wouldn't classify "Back To The City Producer Battle" as a notable "award ceremony" either.
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For almost the last 10 years ever since this article was created, it still does not meet
WP:BIO, specifically
WP:ARTIST; the only sources so far are just links to his works, and one actual source that mentions but does not directly focus on Storey himself. Looking up on Google returns other people named David Storey;
one is a British writer who died on 27 March 2017.
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05:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Actually it is -- being the whole point of this page -- in determining whether, for example, this artist qualifies for a Wikipedia article. --
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Delete unless someone can find some much stronger sources. I added what references I could find to this page in November and tagged it for notability at that time. One citation and one tiny fact have been added since then (there was also some copyvio, which I've removed). Searching for sources is made harder not just by
the well-known writer of the same name, but also two apparently different painters (
David Storey,
David Storey).
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Delete Agree with nom. Notability isn't inherited - while the movies and actors might be notable, there are no indications of notability for this production company. Fails GNG and
WP:NCORP.
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Note from the article author: "As I understand it this is about Mr Kumhof himself and not just one of his papers. And a quick googling of his name shows that he's mentioned by Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Telegraph and many other well known media outlets. So I'm sure he's notable. But what need to be done with the article to show this? ----Space4eva" - my recommendation would be to userfy until that notability is shown.
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Comment: I find the nomination rationale here rather too brief to be entirely convincing in this particular case. In most fields, we would usually find an
h-index of 32, as given by GScholar, high enough to be regarded as sufficient evidence that the subject is notable under
WP:ACADEMIC#1, even if (as in this case) they did not hold an academic post. Also, when the first page of GNews results shows his work being taken seriously by the
Financial Times,
Daily Telegraph and
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, there seems to be a very strong case for
WP:GNG. Having said that, I realise that economics might well be a field where an h-index of 32 is not significantly high, and that his employment as an in-house expert at the
Bank of England and previously the
International Monetary Fund could be used as an argument that some of his apparent notability (though, I would argue, by no means all) really attaches to his employers rather than him. But if these are regarded as sufficient reasons for denying him sufficient notability for a standalone Wikipedia article, I would prefer to see them stated - and open to argument - rather than left for the rest of us to infer.
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The subject is non-notable, which isn't surprising for a cleric who's only 19 years old. The sources available are, like those already cited in the article, social media profiles and comments which aren't admissible for establishing notability. The fact that so many links to the subject's profiles are included in this article reeks of an attempt to exploit Wikipedia to generate media buzz for an otherwise unknown individual.
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03:44, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete when an article is sourced to an Instagram photo of a hand-written pedigree chart, all I can say is that we are dealing with non-substantiated information.
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Keep added more sources including Billboard album review, + charting song in Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961-2006: Chart Data Compiled from Billboard's Adult Contemporary Charts, 1961-2006, and Adult Top 40 Charts, 1996-2006
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Delete. I'm an inclusionist, but being merely mentioned on a list or chart does not make one notable. Notability for people means, "significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject." (
WP:BIO). I don't see anything close to evidence of that. --
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No reference, no coords, no searching finds anything that doesn't look like a catalogue taken from WP. Maybe it has been transliterated badly, but if so, someone can create a new article under the right name with some actual data and citations.
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This seems like a very clear and unnecessary
WP:CONTENTFORK of Angels in America (which at barely 35,000 bytes is still a small article). The book was published less than two weeks ago, and while it has some standard book reviews and thus technically meets criterion #1 of
WP:NBOOK, it's still merely a content fork of the parent article and thus has no independent notability of its own.
Softlavender (
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03:13, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep This is not a content fork. It is an entirely different but related topic. It also clearly passes
WP:NBOOK. These are not trivial book reviews. They are lengthy articles,
[80],
[81],
[82]. The fact that it is currently somewhat short is likewise not a reason to delete the article. It can easily be expanded from the sources already there.
Voceditenore (
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08:10, 4 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Not a content fork per
WP:RELAR, as articles about distinct, related topics may share some content, without being content forks. As a book which collects original interviews and other sources in order to present a historical record of the play Angels in America, its sociopolitical context, influence, place in LGBT history, etc., I think it qualifies as a distinct topic. I added more sources, a quick summary of the subject matter, and started adding to the reception section, and as
Voceditenore said, there is more potential to expand. The source articles provide significant coverage by discussing the book itself, its style, form, development, themes, etc. as the main subject, not simply as a side note to the play, thus making it independently notable according to
WP:GNG.
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Nonnotable relatively recently company. Coverage is either local, part of listicles, or driven by school shootings. Perhaps in a few years it will meet NCORP. Article is typically padded, with two one paragraph sections about funding/partnerships.
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Delete. Neither "county executive" nor "non-winning candidate for higher office" constitutes an automatic inclusion freebie just because he exists — but the article is sourced nowhere even close to well enough to get him over
WP:GNG.
Bearcat (
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00:15, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. I'm going off on a limb here, I know, but his run statewide got lots of coverage, from what I recall. FWIW, I voted against him.
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00:21, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
A non-winning candidacy for statewide office is not an
WP:NPOL pass. If a person didn't win the election, then they have to already have cleared another notability standard for other reasons independent of the candidacy itself. There are occasional exceptions for cases like
Christine O'Donnell, who got so much nationalized and internationalized coverage for her witch snafu that her article is actually longer and better-sourced than the one about the guy she lost to — but campaign-related coverage doesn't help a non-winning candidate clear GNG except in truly extraordinary circumstances like O'Donnell's.
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19:08, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete- Neither county executive or unsuccessful candidate for governor pass
WP:NPOL, you need to come up with a lot of independent sources outside of the election coverage for him to pass.--
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Opposed:
List of transit exchanges in Metro Vancouver links to transit centers of lesser size than this transit center, so I'm not sure why this transit center would not be considered notable. Also, this transit center has been proposed to be a light rail stop in the past (similar to how many bus transit centers in the Puget Sound region are being upgraded to light rail stops with Link's expansion. Should Spokane ever get light rail, it is likely that this would become a light rail stop.
Jdubman (
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06:36, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just because
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, it doesn't make small transit centers like this notable. Spokane is not a major city where its transit stations (which get less than 5,000 daily passengers) can pass general notability. A scrapped light rail plan doesn't make this one station notable; wait until there is a firm plan and the preferred alternative includes this station before trying to use light rail to assert its notability. SounderBruce07:17, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment - That is a great question regarding whether a guideline exists on number of passengers making a transit hub notable or not. In my opinion, I don't think the lone qualifier should be passenger numbers. There are numerous transit stops (including light rail stops) in the United States that have Wikipedia articles (seemingly on the sole basis that they are a light rail stop) that have lower passenger numbers than this transit hub in question. This is not meant to be a
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument, but rather, an argument that there should be multiple criteria that weighs into whether a transit hub is notable or not.
Jdubman (
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06:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment - Regarding notability,
WP:BUSOUTCOMES mentions articles that describe historically large social impact may be considered notable. I've just expanded the history section of the transit center. The transit center was a cornerstone of major transit expansion in the Spokane area. STA's predecessor, Spokane Transit System, was city owned. Therefore, routes extending outside of city limits (such as into Spokane Valley) were few and far between and were on the chopping block. This transit center was a major component of the transition to a county-wide system that enabled transit development outside of Spokane city limits.
Jdubman (
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07:09, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The social impacts described aren't unique at all (literally every other bus route on earth can be described with similar impacts on distance traveled). Much of the new content belongs in the STA system article; we are an encyclopedia after all, one that doesn't need to explain that much background repetitively. SounderBruce08:12, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
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Weak Keep as the singer won I love New York competition with her own song and 7 Notes Challenge competition organized by famous musician Serj Tankian. Moreover, there is a significant coverage about her on the internet.
Harut111 (
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06:38, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment - the 'I Love New York festival' doesn't even appear among the top Google queries. How relevant is it, really? ׺°”˜`”°º×ηυηzια׺°”˜`”°º×18:45, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment coming in 7th in the Armenian Eurovision qualifying contest doesn't meet any SNG, and I agree that I don't know what the "I love New York" festival is supposed to be. Refs are almost entirely in Armenian; I doubt
WP:ENT is met by them but GNG might be.
power~enwiki (
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00:19, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
No it doesn't. No published music (doesn't have an iTunes or Spotify page), so paragraph 1 isn't met; hasn't won any major music competitions, which means paragraph 9 isn't met; and participating in a Eurovision selection doesn't give her automatic encyclopedic relevance, or else
this wouldn't have happened. We should remember that this is an encyclopedia, and not a platform to promote unsigned hopefuls who haven't contributed to anything relevant in order to have their own page. ׺°”˜`”°º×ηυηzια׺°”˜`”°º×15:42, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Your last sentence reminds me of
WP:JUSTDONTLIKEIT. When determining notability, the Wikipedia guidelines are what's important. The current state of sourcing in the article demonstrates she's received significant coverage in independent sources about not just her music but her history and her life. According to
WP:GNG, this indicates that she is notable.
Lonehexagon (
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18:52, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Based on the current sourcing of the article (I clicked on just three examples, though there's many more), it appears to easily pass
WP:GNG due to the amount of coverage in independent secondary sources. Whether or not she passes
WP:MUSIC, the extensive coverage she's received about her history, hobbies, and education demonstrate that there's significant interest in her as a person.
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Hi, I consider the 3 magazine articles reliable. This is my 1st article and i appreciate the advice on what needs to be changed. I love electronic music and this band is cool... i think that with their releases they deserve more recognition so i made them a page... appreciate suggestions. Thanks — Preceding
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With music on Youtube plus with a search there are also fan made videos, counts towards notability.
I also consider this wikipedia page to be reliable! Even though WizG is an up and coming duo. I follow them deeply. They are on all music platforms to date. — Preceding
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Comment True. And in this case, I consider the quantity of magazine reference influence the notability combined with the streaming platforms. In the end, I may vote for keeping... what could be added/subtracted to help article in the meantime? — Preceding
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Twitter and Instagram accounts are active and match. With music on YouTube plus the fan-made videos, their notability may be ranked for page status. Member ´Kostas´ also verified account on Twitter. EDM.com reference is from an electronic music publisher, one of the largest, adding a verifiable source for the credibility of the page. Overall, it seems the band has notability and some good references, keep the page.
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Keep. The seeming remoteness of a locality could have many other explanations rather than having "no trace". For example, in these areas Somalis are known for being nomadic, hence no fixed population figures are going to exist. Also, periods of drought occur which could also cause population displacement. Furthermore, dispersion is also very likely because of militia groups which do operate in these areas. Another reason why it is difficult to find sources for this locality is because of the lack of a standardised Somali. This is not the fault of the local community. It is the fault of the weakness of the Somali government. Most of these places are transliterated in a myriad of ways, hence will not be useful when doing a google search.
92.9.152.17 (
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21:22, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It would help if there was a single source to even suggest this empty bit of desert was anything relevant. But there is nothing, so I can't see how it will pass the notability requirements.
Prince of Thieves (
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22:36, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete "Amar Deen" came up in a Geonames OpenStreetMap search; it had been deleted, and nothing existed where it had been placed. Delete without prejudice, though.
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This is an object case of why it's not wise to rely on maps compiled for some other purpose. In this case the source of this is a
UN map: every other "substantial" reference to the name is on a copy of this map. Geonames, however, doesn't believe in it, and after more GMap scanning than ought to be necessary, I don't either. The article drops you in the ocean, but the closest settlement on the coast that I could find definitely has a different name, and doesn't appear to be at quite the same location as the dot on the map suggests. I'd be willing to accept its reality if the text of the various uses of the map talked about the place, even incidentally, but they don't.
Mangoe (
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17:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The map does say The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. and there is nothing at the spot marked. The nearest land to the supposed coords is definitely an empty sand dune. The few villages nearby are clearly labelled with other names.
Prince of Thieves (
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22:59, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep and move to
Ceel-Lahelay It seems that the language in this article nomination is riddled with Eurocentric terms and thought processes. Somalis are historically among the most nomadic people in the world; moving from place to place for grazing for their cattle. Western norms and thought processes should not be applied to the Somali people. Maintaing articles such as this one is important since, even if isolated, it represents clan territory for a specific sub-clan, in this case I believe the Saruur Habar Gidir.. Also, I looked at the sources, and they are not misrepresentative
92.19.179.136 (
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07:45, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
You know, maybe or maybe not this is a lot of talking around the point. But whatever rationalization you you want to make for ignoring the impoverishment of sources, the raw problem remains that the only sources we an find, which are western and governmental and therefore can bring western, governmental, thorough resources to the matter, nonetheless fail to check out themselves, never mind having issues with matching the articles on occasion. I don't have a problem with the notion that villages may not be a terribly meaningful concept, but then the issue is that we need to delete those articles that say there is a village named "Thusly" in such-and-such a place in "Whatever" district, because the whole class of articles is invalid. And I'm for writing articles which address the things better than a western dots-and-lines-on-maps basis, but the problem is that the only sources I'm finding are entirely western maps that that say "there is a dot here and a line there". Otherwise, the correct outcome is that we implicitly confess our ignorance of Somali geography by not writing about it.
Mangoe (
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10:59, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Move My best educated guess is that this actually is called Ceel-Lahelay, which is in the same position as Hilalaya on the UN Map. We don't have an article for and there's a settlement nearby to the marker on OpenStreetMap. Also a note to look at coordinates when reviewing these: Anything with a single significant digit could be up to 11 miles away from the actual point on the map.
SportingFlyer (
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07:06, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete because we apparently can't even meet
WP:V. Better to, as Mongoe suggests, confess our ignorance of Somali geography, than to make stuff up that we're not sure is correct. What SportingFlyer suggests, i.e. looking at a map and making an educated guess, is the very definition of
WP:OR. --
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Delete -- DICDEF. If someone wants to move the content to Wiktionary, fine. There are hundreds of unreferenced photography articles, a remnant of a time when the standards for new articles were lower.
Rhadow (
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15:27, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. It's an article about a technique rather than simply a definition of a word, so not a DICDEF. Could be expanded, I'm sure, with discussion of tilt plates, etc., and how tilt is used in cinema, for which there are several possible book sources. Could quite possibly be merged somewhere else if appropriate. --
Michig (
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Panning (camera) and renaming that article to
Panning and tilting would seem a reasonable option. --
Michig (
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16:15, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment There's already a large section at
View_camera that covers this topic and likewise
tilt–shift photography deals with tilting on small and medium format cameras. I'm not certain if this standalone article is needed as the info is covered elsewhere and this specific definition is pretty basic and really can't be expanded beyond a stub.
freshacconci (✉)19:48, 11 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment It's worth noting, however banal it is, that tilt is probably more often used as a director's instruction to a studio or remote camera operator (e.g. "tilt up and pan left") than it is in large format photo or in reference to a tilt-shift lens.
104.163.148.25 (
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05:22, 15 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Matches the corresponding article on
Panning_(camera), though I'd happily see both articles merged together into
Pan and tilt (camera). Pan and tilt are not minor terms or minor techniques within photography. The
View camera is a very specific large format camera, so a redirect would be just lost there, whereas this term is applicable to cameras/video and film photography and tripods.
Nick Moyes (
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21:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Very difficult to see the two articles as matching. Panning has relevance for shutter speed and exposure, references etymology, use in video and 3D modelling: tilt essentially says "point it up or down a bit). Possible grounds for merger, but the tilt article per se is no more than application of a definition, and by no means a match to the one on panning.
Kevin McE (
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13:00, 16 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. There are reasonable arguments for a merge to
Panning (camera), but I don't think that works. At one level, they're both just rotations around an axis on the camera mount. But, tilt tends to be static; tilt to some angle, and lock it there. Panning is often dynamic, where you continuously pan to follow a moving subject with the specific goal of freezing motion of the main subject and/or blurring the background. This difference is implicit in the naming of the articles; it's not
Pan (camera), it's
Panning (camera), with the gerund form implying an ongoing action. Merging the two into
tilt and pan wouldn't be terrible, but it's not necessary. --
RoySmith(talk)14:01, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep -
WP:DICTDEF is only a valid reason to delete if there is no potential to expand. Potential to expand has been amply demonstrated. Merge opportunities can be discussed separately on talk pages. ~
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The result was Delete. Regardless of what the name means, we can't have an article about it if it has no coverage in reliable sources. Hut 8.522:09, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
"Afweyn" appears to be Somali for "
water well", because there are dozens of hits for this in Geonames, and most of them are tagged as wells, including two in this region alone. The one with the coords in this article is another spot in the middle of nowhere near the coast. Searching is impossible due to the common name, but I have to doubt the notability of wells, as I would the notability of towns with gas stations.
Mangoe (
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16:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. As a fluent Somali speaker I am nominating keep because I find it quite perplexing how someone who speaks not a single word of Somali is trying to translate Somali words. Amazing. Afweyn means "big mouth". Af = mouth; weyn = big. *shakes head*. Also, since water wells are a political tool as well as important subsistence tool in such a barren region, this article is notable.
92.19.179.136 (
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07:28, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Google Translate does Somali now, send them feedback if they got it wrong. As far as the article is concerned, it clearly states it is a populated place, which is untrue, it is at best a well, assuming it exists at all, which is currently dubious. I see no specific guideline on whether desert wells are notable, it seems to me that they are relevant as you say, but somewhat lacking in sources or anything that could be written about them.
Prince of Thieves (
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22:43, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete OpenStreetMap calls it a well, and if it's a well, it doesn't pass
WP:GEOLAND as there are no reliable sources. Would also like to note I would like to keep all of these if possible.
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Keep and rename
Killing of Raju Risaldar. Searches on his name bring up SIGCOV from which article can be improved. I have added text sourced to a
Times of India article, it begins an article upgrade. I oppose merging on the grounds that nuanced articles on the significant players in communal tensions in India are the best way to support and add depth to the articles on political and communal tensions to which they can be linked.
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Personally, I interpret "X is a locality" as a synonym for "X isn't notable". At any rate, the coords take one to the side of a track running in a straight line due east and west, no habitation or indeed any other feature anywhere nearby.
Mangoe (
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15:03, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. You can't just make up your own definition of the word locality. it is however implausible that this area is uninhabited since most anthropological information assigns specific clan homage to this place. Also these areas Somalis are known for being nomadic, hence no fixed population figures are going to exist. Also, periods of drought occur which could also cause population displacement. Furthermore, dispersion is also very likely because of militia groups which do operate in these areas. Another reason why it is difficult to find sources for this locality is because of the lack of a standardised Somali. This is not the fault of the local community. It is the fault of the weakness of the Somali government. Most of these places are transliterated in a myriad of ways, hence will not be useful when doing a google search.
92.9.152.17 (
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21:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It's not even a populated locality, it's just the name given to a bit of uninhabited desert. The fact it has been uninhabited for at least 15 years is proven (by Google maps) and I can't find the anthropological information mentioned by 92.9.152.17, if there had ever been a settlement there, there would be traces remaining, and there aren't any.
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This article violate
WP:PRIMARY SOURCES and
WP:NOTABILITY. As far as I know, many university have more then one campus if we don't create specific page for every campus then why British Columbia will be treated differently. Neither its a residential college nor a independent university. I really don't see any reoson to keep it
Ominictionary (
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14:06, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. I don't understand what the nominator thinks our notability standards for educational institutions are. They're not based on whether the school is "residential" or not, and they don't require an institution to be fully independent. We do not necessarily deprecate writing separate articles about different campuses of a single institution in all cases —
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, for example, would be a case where we don't require separate articles for each individual campus, because both campuses are in the same city and there's really nothing that can really be said about either campus as a distinct topic from the other beyond their physical locations. But in the case of
University of Toronto Mississauga, we do have a standalone article about the Mississauga campus as a separate topic from the Downtown Toronto campus, because it has a lot that can be said about it and the parent institution is such a large, potentially overwhelming topic that it needs to be split up for size management purposes — if everything that could possibly be said about U of T were combined into a single article, it would be the size of several Don DeLillo novels put together. And UBC has the same problem — it's right up there with U of T and McGill in Canada's Ivy League — so its distinct campuses are a logical and valid splitpoint for getting some of the content out of the parent article. Yes, the article needs referencing improvement — but this campus has a considerable amount of content that can be written about it as a distinct topic from the parent institution, and we do not have any blanket rule against separate articles about satellite campuses of educational institutions.
Bearcat (
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00:37, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep Large post-secondary institution. The only reason it would not be notable would be because it's a satellite campus, despite this satellite campus being bigger than most post-secondary institutions.
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Another Somali geography problem, worse than most. Geonames seems to think this is a "variant" on some utterly different placename, itself "unverified"; the coords once again drop into the middle of nowhere. Google searching is plagued by false hits, as both parts of the name are apparently common components, but the exact phrase only hits the usual mirrors and geography search traps.
Mangoe (
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13:58, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete - I agree with the nom. The geo coordinates show simply an unpopulated patch of desert. I'm not finding anything with this name in relation to Somalia. Who's creating these articles? --
Oakshade (
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22:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Most articles like this were created by people making stubs on every entry in certain gazetteers or simply every entry on geonames on the premise they must exist, therefore are notable. This one is from 2011, but there are so many, especially in Somalia seemingly, where they simply don't exist, and since it is unclear whether there is even a government at all, there are no official designations.
Prince of Thieves (
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23:32, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep This area of the Nugaal has over the past decade been the scene of fighting over prospective oil discoveries between three governments; Khatumo, Somaliland and Puntland. Off course the byproduct of this is that settling in this area has become a political conundrum. The fact that none of the previous commentators have acknowledged that fact makes me feel that i should add balance to this discussion.
92.9.152.17 (
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23:41, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Comment the Dutch article points to El Uaesed which is also picked up by OpenStreetMap when you search for Acqua Uadi (possibly because of the Wikilink?).
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Keep. I'm not surprised that Hindi director active in the 1960s does not have a ton of sources available readily available online. That doesn't mean he's non-notable, it just means there's
WP:SYSTEMIC bias to the available online sources. There are enough hits in the English Google book results to suggest that he's likely notable -- the best sources are likely offline, and in Hindi. This needs attention from a native speaker.
Υπογράφω (
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03:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Hi Acharya63, yes you are welcome to take part in the discussion. As Υπογράφω has pointed out this article illustrates two of Wikipedia's weaknesses, we don't have digital access to enough sources from the pre internet era, especially in languages like Marathii and Hindi. Of course sources don't need to be online any more than they need to be in English, so if you have access to books, magazines or newspapers of or about that era feel free to use them to improve the article. ϢereSpielChequers 11:44, 20 February 2018 (UTC):Note: This discussion has been included in the
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MT TrainDiscuss04:30, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak keep--See
this reference.Old Marathi dalilies have covered him to some extent.At any case, the news refs which are online mentions the subject as the director of the first Hindi film to feature Lata Mangeshkar's voice and are pretty much unable to establish any notabilty.
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I can find no reasonable claim of Notability. The only reference has been removed by the host. The supposed official website does not relate to this product: it belongs to a bank with a similar name. Google News does not find any mentions of it.
To be fair, I do not speak Korean so there may be more notability in Korean-language searches which did not show up in my English-language search.
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12:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Oppose - Fixed the problems that were mentioned. Missed that when I was creating the page but nevertheless, as mentioned before there is not that much information in English or any articles about the app to add more content. The information on this page comes from the Korean page and since there is a Korean page for this and the app is widely used in Korea, I don't think that the page should be deleted. Yes, I know there isn't much information but still. I encourage growing the page rather then just getting rid of it for minor reasons that won't exist in the future.
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Another great-grandson of Darwin, and nephew of Keynes, who does not seem notable in his own right. I cannot find significant coverage.
Tacyarg (
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02:26, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Possible Firm keep His 1984 book about
Lydia Lopokova was reviewed in major newspapers. I haven't time just now to look further, but I suspect the article may just need an expand / source.
E.M.Gregory (
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The Lancet based on testing some of Napoleonic body part to solve a old debate (Did Napoleon die from arsenical poisoning? Milo Keynes. DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(94)93046-5. 276) I admit to not having read past the headlines, and, therefore, I cannot say what Napoleon died of, but Keynes' letter to the editor was discussed in literally scores of newspapers and journals as part of a vigorous debate on the subject that raged across the Anglosphere and in other languages. He is cited so widely and on so many topics that it seems clear that he needs a better article. Note that our article on him is pretty much a sutb, written more than a decade ago. The text appears to be accurate, but it emphasizes genealogy (which may have misled Nom into assuming that all Kaynes had going for his was distinguished forebears - which turns out not to be the case at all.) Article is badly in need of an expansion and better sourcing.
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Lacks notability. He is mentioned in a few books as a relative to Rubens, but indepth information about him can only be found in the journal of the Antwerp Archivists, which is not an independent source (an organization writing about someone in the history of that organisation). City archivists do a valuable job, but not a very high profile one and thus get little attention, and this one, despite his family connections, is no exception.
Fram (
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11:09, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Any evidence for this? No one in Antwerp apart from a few archivists actually knows or cares who Hendrik de Moy is, he is a minor footnote in the city history.
Fram (
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05:46, 21 February 2018 (UTC)reply
What evidence? The only source with significant attention for De Moy (not just a passing mention in one line) is the 19th century article in the journal of the Antwerp Archivists, which is not an independent source as he was an Antwerp archivist. If there is no other good source about De Moy, then the "evidence is very clear and proven" that no one really cares about Hendrik de Moy, at least not enough to write at some length about him.
Fram (
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14:52, 22 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Soft keep. After a source search I've found an academic article he was mentioned in
[91] He also gets a mention here
[92], in a bibliography here (from the 1860s)
[93]. Also Belgian/Dutch sources I do not understand, and lots of genealogy websites, and had a street named after him in Antwerp. I agree it's a borderline case, but I fall on the side of him qualifying for
WP:GNG since there were some diverse sources other than the city of Antwerp over a long time interval.
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Keep: Another example of a pre-Google-age actor who had enough significant coverage in her time, but not all sources will have been digitized and available to us now. Happy Days and Wonder Woman were major shows in their time with very high ratings. A similarly-situated show today would have such cast members clearly covered at a level to easily meet notability.
Montanabw(talk)21:01, 1 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Cohen played a very minor character in Happy Days (not "starred" by any stretch of the imagination) and was only slightly more prominent in a single season of Wonder Woman. On the
Happy Days Wiki, she gets only one paragraph "About Marsha". Even if you stretch hard to call her Wonder Woman role significant, NACTOR requires more than one such supporting part.
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Keep Added several additional sources including from newspaper archives. Passes
WP:NACTOR per "Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions." She has an extensive list of significant parts in many films and shows.
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Delete roles are far below what is required for actor notability and sources are not at all showing notability. IMDB is not a reliable source at all, and it is high time we purge it from being so widely linked to.
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Keep Via
WP:ENTERTAINER ("Has had significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions"). She's in A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, and in the Canadian movies Matinee and Quarantine.
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The result was Delete. Although the points about systematic bias have merit, we do need reliable sources confirming that the subject actually exists if we are going to have an article on it. I'm happy to userfy this if someone wants to work on it. Hut 8.522:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
The parade of questionable Somali placenames continues, in this case with an article name which Geonames doesn't recognize at all and a name within the article which Geonames claims are some hills. The latter might be true, but there's no town at the coordinates given.
Mangoe (
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03:49, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. The rationale for deletion seems at least to be a strawman fallacy and when taken as a whole with other comments, possibly an adhominem fallacy. Furthermore, in these areas Somalis are known for being nomadic, hence no fixed population figures are going to exist. Also, periods of drought occur which could also cause population displacement. Furthermore, dispersion is also very likely because of militia groups which do operate in these areas. Another reason why it is difficult to find sources for this locality is because of the lack of a standardised Somali. This is not the fault of the local community. It is the fault of the weakness of the Somali government. Most of these places are transliterated in a myriad of ways, hence will not be useful when doing a google search.
92.9.152.17 (
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21:30, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Nomadic people by definition do not have cities, so an article about a city for a nomadic tribe is a clear mistake. And Geonames, which is normally happy to list every unverified site of a tent as a populated place, doesn't even list it!
Prince of Thieves (
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22:15, 20 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Neutral. This is the kind of AfD where nobody seems to have been acting entirely sensibly. For a start, while one purpose of Wikipedia (among others) is to act as a gazetteer and while notability standards may be slightly relaxed to let Wikipedia achieve this, we still need to have at least basic verifiability and a reasonable certainty that sources are reliable not just for their original purpose but also for providing currently correct information to Wikipedia records (which does not mean that outdated information can not be used - but does mean that it needs to be clearly indicated as historic). The creator(s) of this and other Somalian substubs do not seem to have taken account of this - at least some of the sources used were not only up to several decades old but also their top priority seems to have been to achieve a geographically comprehensive set of places, even if this meant using historical or (as a very last resort) made-up names. (We would like to be geographically comprehensive, but verifiability has to come first.) In this case, the creator's carelessness seems to have caught the nominator out twice - first, by using the Arabic version of the name (which, in Somalia, was fairly common among 20th-century colonial powers) for the article title rather than a Somali version (as has been fairly universal for at least the past 30 years), and secondly, by using the coordinates of some hills given on maps by the Somali name rather than the place of the same name ten miles to the north-east. However, while geographical articles need not be about permanently populated places but can also be about natural features or (particularly in areas without a settled population) intermittently populated ones, this does not completely vindicate the Keep !voter's arguments against the nomination. Neither do the variety of competing (if similar) Somali orthographic standards (though the nominator and other contributors should probably be taking a bit more account of this than they seem to be doing). We still need some assurance that the subject is correctly described (as a hill if it's a hill, as a regularly reused campsite if it a campsite, and as a city if it is a city), and that it is something important enough to its area that even outside visitors should be expected to be aware of it - and currently we don't have that assurance. If there are some current or historic details that would give that assurance, we need to know of them.
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23:30, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
For most of these the first step as been to get the feature ID out of the reference and then plug it back into geonames to get the current listing and coords; then I go to the aerials. It's not terribly uncommon that the current names in geonames don't match what's in the articles now: if I can find the place and it is consistent with the description, I have on occasion moved the article to the current verified name. If I can find references to the place in news/etc., I have as a rule not nominated the name.
I'm certainly open to consideration of hills as notable, though personally my standards for these things tend to be on the higher end. But everything seems to say that the current text of the article is incorrect.
Mangoe (
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04:06, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
@
PWilkinson: very thorough assessment, but does by using the coordinates of some hills given on maps by the Somali name rather than the place of the same name ten miles to the north-east mean that there is a real village close by that this article could be changed to refer to?
Prince of Thieves (
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14:27, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
At least part of the problem in this is that either there has been a substantial change in the geonames data since these articles were created, or the person who created them was extremely sloppy. Almost all of them claim that the name in question is a town, but it's looking as though at least a third of them are now tagged in geonames as "localities", with a few "hills" and "water wells" and even a couple of "areas". There are also consistent typographical problems: for one thing, a lot of the names are made up of multiple words, but the article names usually leave the spaces out. At the very least, the articles need to stop saying that these are "towns". I'm not willing to care about the difference between a town and a village, but I have to say that "localities" aren't notable without some textual usage that gives some context. Hills and wells, we can discuss them: in this case if we are good with hills, the article can be moved and rewritten.
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14:56, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
That someone would probably have to be you. The original author is long gone. I'm willing, if people are set on the notability of hills, to rewrite it in place to match what geonames says, but I don't see how putting it off to the side as a draft is a good solution.
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The result was no consensus. Despite the number of bolded keep-!votes, the discussion is less clear whether the painting's notability is sufficiently established to warrant its own article. However, neither the nominator nor the other participants have mentioned any reason why this should not at the very least be merged or redirected, so this should be attempted before a new AFD.
SoWhy10:21, 7 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. Most individual works of art by prominent artists from this period will have been studied by experts, subject to critical discourse, had their exhibition history and provenance traced, etc. In other words, each is likely to have been the subject of significant coverage in reliable sources, making them notable independent of the artist herself. This is no exception: see the
Met collection page for the type of information that a standalone article could contain, as well as a list of references for further coverage.
Υπογράφω (
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16:29, 19 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep: It's a stub, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have sufficient notability to warrant a full article.
Czar, if you expand "References" on the Met's site, you will see a list of a dozen times this work has been published by others. --
Usernameunique (
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21:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Doing so would be ignoring WP:NOTGALLERYWP:INDISCRIMINATE00:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC) policy, and I'm not convinced that WP needs a separate standalone article about every single piece of art that was ever created or that is on display in a museum. Atsme📞📧22:03, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you referring to #4, stating that "Wikipedia articles are not merely collections of: ... Photographs or media files with no accompanying text"? If so, there is some accompanying text about the painting (not a lot), the Met's website demonstrates that there is much more that could be said, and the list of references on the Met's site goes to show that there is a lot of literature on it. It would be ideal if
Henryshirley or someone else would flesh out the page, but I wouldn't see that as a requirement for not deleting the article. --
Usernameunique (
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23:30, 23 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Apologies for my use of the redirect - it came to mind first. I struck and noted correct section, particularly (including only relevant portion for sake of brevity): To provide encyclopedic value, data should be put in context with explanations referenced to independent sources. As explained in § Encyclopedic content above, merely being true, or even verifiable, does not automatically make something suitable for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Wikipedia articles should not be: Summary-only descriptions of works. Wikipedia treats creative works (including, for example, works of art...Atsme📞📧00:24, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The references at
the painting's Met catalog entry indicate sources used in the entry's description (about the artist's life, time period, style), and should not be assumed—nor are they likely—to be about this painting in specific. If the notable aspect of this portrait is a series or a style, those facets should be covered in the artist's article
summary style until given warrant (by length or proven sourcing) to split into a separate article. czar17:47, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep If I'm not mistaken, this work was exhibited in the salon of 1781 and discussed by
Denis Diderot in one of his
Salons. I don't have access to the sources at the moment, but I do think expansion is possible.
Mduvekot (
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18:31, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
GNG requires ...significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. That has not been satisfied. Per my previous statement, the image is already in the gallery of the artist's biography, so it's not actually being deleted from WP - it will continue to exist as will the information about the painting.
WP:GNG,
WP:INDISCRIMINATE and
WP:NOTGALLERY should prevail over the keep arguments. Atsme📞📧19:42, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Just checking: are you saying the MET is not sufficiently independent? If so, can you please explain why they are incapable of unbiased a critical assessment or analysis? If it's because they own the work, then let me point out that museums tend to acquire artworks only after they have conducted said assessment/analysis. In my opinion, museums are reliable sources for works in their own collection.
Mduvekot (
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20:03, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Did you not see that I withdrew the merge proposal? I added the image to the artist's gallery. Editors can add information about the piece in the artist's Exhibition section. Atsme📞📧20:38, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I did see that, which is why I asked for clarification. I can see that that wasn't obvious, sorry. I'm not sure what you want; delete the article, but in your words it will continue to exist as will the information about the painting. As I see it, that's a merge proposal, only you don't call it that. So, do you want to a) merge, in which case the information is retained in
Anne Vallayer-Coster or b) delete, in which case it is removed?
Mduvekot (
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20:50, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I can understand why you would find it confusing, my apologies. I'm happy to try to explain more clearly. The image is part of the artist's Exhibit gallery on her WP biography. The information that is relevant to the painting is included with the image - all you have to do is click on the image, then click on "more details". There is nothing else notable about the painting that warrants it being a standalone article. For an individual painting to qualify as a stand alone, it must be notable beyond the artist's notability which requires verifiability in multiple reliable sources independent of the subject. This painting does not meet that qualification - there is no "notable" account that justifies it to be separate from the artist's biography. Hope that helps. Atsme📞📧21:18, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
I found the Diderot quote I mentioned above, here: [
[94]]. In his review of the Salon of 1781, discussing "Petits tableaux Ovales de Fleurs et de Fruits", he writes: "I y a de la vérité; mais la touche est molle et froide: rien de la finesse particulière de dessin et de pinceau que ce genre exige. La corbeille de raisins est égale de ton et sans effet." That is a remarkable change in to from his critique 10 years earlier, when he was very enthusiastic about her work.
Mduvekot (
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21:46, 24 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Putting it within a list would also make it harder to adequately include the provenance and exhibition history, let alone describe the work as an individual piece. --
Usernameunique (
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19:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)reply
We don't need subject-specific guidelines for every topic. Our main policy is the
general notability guideline, which requires
significant coverage in multiple
reliable,
independent sources. (
?) The question is what sources in this case cover this particular painting in enough depth to warrant a separate article from the article's own biography or an article on the artist's oeuvre. No one has investigated the contents of the Met's bibliography. Of course the Met's own publications cover the painting, but that doesn't imply that every painting at the Met is independently notable because we require proof that a work has been covered in sources independent from the subject (in this case, the holding museum). The other sources in the bibliography could just as well be mainly about the artist or period and not this painting in particular, based on the work's blurb on the Met's website. This should be basic deduction. czar19:52, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep quite notable, has an image, and not too badly referenced. Its not because its a stub that it should be deleted. L293D (
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✎)19:50, 6 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Anne Vallayer-Coster. I'm not finding any
WP:RS outside of the Met's own catalog. There's a number of art dealers selling prints of this, and stuff like that, but nothing that I would consider an independent
WP:RS which provides the significant coverage required by
WP:GNG. --
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Redirect per AngusWOOF. Some information belongs there, and the redirect would be helpful for readers to find it. But there's no reason to have a separate article for each year.
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16:50, 16 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Note that a total of two articles are nominated for deletion herein.
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Keep -- Sufficient notability established by the sources provided. From a practical standpoint, it's useful to have a stand-alone article to accept wikilinks, rather than a redirect to section in a long article. --
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04:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep The international usage of this concept has been noted in reliable sources. The idea that something "is Orwellian" is well defined and goes beyond simply being a dictionary definition. This is quite consistent, there seems to be an article about pretty much every derogatory term with widespread cultural connotations.
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Keep Hoping this spurs at least more independent sources, but in here we have plot, episodes and airdate. That's usually the bare minimum for a television series article, and this has what we need. Barring a sudden rebrand/meteoric intervention, this show will air. Nate•(
chatter)01:34, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you saying that we bypass GNG and N and accept this stub simply because it exists? Perhaps I'm missing what makes it notable...please cite the policy that makes it eligible for inclusion.
CommentWP:COMMONSENSE, for one. This is a spin-off series of a show which already aired successfully on the network. Animation takes months before in order to be ready on the airdate and most of it is done already. Unless Hasbro suddenly changes its mind and decides to junk millions of dollars of promotion, hiring cast, crew and animation, this show is presumed to go forward, and burning this article because 'oh it hasn't aired on TV yet' would be pointless since it will air on TV soon. Nate•(
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I read that......but absent significant evidence that the pilot has notability for reasons beyond simple confirmation of its existence, the announcement itself is not sufficient basis for a standalone article about the pilot. Did I miss something? Atsme📞📧00:42, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Are you sure it's a pilot that's being aired? There are already two episodes listed, and articles say the series has been picked up. It's starting with two episodes back-to-back which isn't typical of a pilot.
[95] In any case, there's no need to delete this, at best it's a draftify.
SportingFlyer (
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01:35, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
It appears that the
WP:COMMONSENSE comment above applies best to
Wikipedia:Television_episodes which states (my bold underline): While each episode on its own may not qualify for an article, it is quite likely that sources can be found to support a series or season page, where all the episodes in one season (or series) are presented on one page. (See examples listed below). Such pages must still be notable, and contain out-of-universe context, and not merely be a list of episode titles or cast and crew: Wikipedia is not a directory. This AfD nomination was proper considering the article comprises little more than a single episode and cast, and the sources are not independent of the series. It simply does not meet GNG per the guidelines. Atsme📞📧11:26, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
From
WP:TVSHOW: in most cases, a television series is not eligible for an article until its scheduling as an ongoing series has been formally confirmed by a television network (for instance, it has been announced at a television network's upfront presentation as being scheduled and advanced to series) This isn't an episodes article, nor is it a pilot; it appears there are two episodes which are confirmed to air in six weeks.
SportingFlyertalk19:27, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Well...the fact we don't even know what it is exactly is reason enough to delete or draftify. Hopefully the closer will be able to figure it out. Atsme📞📧21:19, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Yeah, but no. Too soon. Let it incubate. WP is not a platform to promotion a new "potential/proposed" series. There's nothing notable about it - it's just another proposed series. If you think there is more information you can add to establish N, please do, but as it sits right now, it fails N. Atsme📞📧22:45, 2 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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Delete agree with nominator: this is presented as
WP:AUTHOR, though only a few technical books are here, and few sources are available showing other
WP:GNG.
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The result was delete. No reliable, independent, in-depth sources were given to establish notability. It was not clearly demonstrated that the topic is a "very popular author" in Turkey.
78.26(
spin me /
revolutions)17:44, 6 March 2018 (UTC)reply
There are no independent sources to prove that he's notable. The article in Turkish Wikipedia has also been nominated for deletion and looks like it will be deleted.
Rapsar (
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16:58, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
independent sources is for this person is reportage in national newspappers and so Everything must be removed for you already. Why do you delete here because it is deleted in Turkish Wikipedia? Pls Please do not delete in English Wikipedia thank u.
86.67.141.171 (
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19:05, 27 February 2018 (UTC)reply
The related person is a very populer author in Turkey. I think that the page about he in Turkish wikipedia is blocked in a result of a simple misunderstanding.
Haruneme (
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20:33, 28 February 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. The only sources covering this person are primary sources, mainly interviews, and the sources on the article are literally just his personal website and his columns. No, he is not a very popular author and the two comments above seem to be part of a promotional campaign to keep the page. The two users (anonymous and Haruneme) have taken a proactive stance for keep in the discussions (for the
book by the author as well as
the author himself) on Turkish Wikipedia. Needless to say, these comments lack any policy-based substantiation. --
GGT (
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18:13, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Finally: there is no provocation. İn Turkish Wikipedia trying to delete the article of Wikipedia 7 months after the book. And I have reasoned arguments for the other Wikipedist including. And other Wikipedist i a reason for not delete this article. There is no need for advertising, but it's good to know you a little bit yourself. those who think like you who provoke. Keep your comments to yourself Develop an argument.
86.67.141.171 (
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21:46, 3 March 2018 (UTC)reply
@
GGT:, the article has been deleted in Turkish Wikipedia, because of the same reasons that you mentioned. The anonymous user is Mr. Çoarkçı himself, and despite many explainations, we couldn't make him understand Wikipedia policies and guidelines.--
Rapsar (
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23:20, 5 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Sorry Rapstar i am not Mr.Çorakçı i am the assistant. Wikipedia Turkey's employees is idiot and despot. You are always right in your own world:) I hope the English Wikipedia are not so lol :) You and your friends is vandalism team. İn the 2 article 3 people is say not deleted. You attacked for delete and yours arguments is not acceptable.(İngilizce'den size ne yahu? neden karışıyorsunuz? İnceleme Elemanı o 2 maddede de çok güzel özetledi sizin ekibin durumunu:) Vikiçizer ile beraber harbi zavallısınız. 3 kişi o 2 maddede silinmesin demiş, saygınız yok, hep kendiniz haklısınız şaka gibi:) sonra neden Wikipedia Türkiye sansüre uğradı? sizin gibi iş bilmez tipler yüzünden bu durumda. /Bu da sondur, bir daha rahatsız etme)
86.67.141.171 (
talk)
00:36, 6 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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