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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Michigan Every Three Weekly

:The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Listed for 13 days with no arguments for deletion aisde from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

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non-notable student newspaper. Coverage given and found is entirely 1) on the site or 2) in relation to other things. Ironholds (talk) 15:40, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

  • Comment. If the newspaper was indeed founded in 1889, and has maintained publication since, then I'd say there's a very good case for notability. However, the article reads like the satires the newspaper is apparently known for - it's unencyclopedic to note that the paper "stepped onto the national scene with balance and poise". The sources are non-existent, mainly external links to other organizations referred to in the article. This could probably be cut down to a stub, but for the fact that we can't document anything in the article. UltraExactZZ Claims ~ Evidence 17:49, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
  • :If the newspaper was indeed founded in 1889, and has maintained publication since, and still doesn't pass WP:GNG, then I'd say there's a very good case for deletion. WP:GNG is and should be seen as the base level. Ironholds (talk) 01:16, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

:Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:29, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

  • Keep: Many established student papers other than a school's primary daily paper have an individual page on wikipedia, such as Stanford Chaparral, The Georgetown Voice, and Tiger Weekly. Looks like this article was created on September 13. Clearly a lot of the work done since the original prod comes from people with some relation to the publication (because they can't help but be funny), but that can be fixed, see, e.g., College humor magazines and the category listing all the individual college humor magazines already in the project, such as Heuristic Squelch, Lush For Life, and Golden Words. Coverage of this publication includes a good number of cites I quickly found from the major UoM paper, so its clear this isn't some unknown publication in the relevant community: [http://www.michigandaily.com/content/e3w-content-criticized], [http://www.michigandaily.com/content/passing-humor-publications-attacks], [http://www.michigandaily.com/content/court-limits-student-publishing-freedom?page=0,1], [http://www.michigandaily.com/content/why-complaining-about-your-gsis-accent-waste-time-and-racist], [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-133237308.html] --Milowent (talk) 15:11, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep:as Milowent. --Pedro J. the rookie 18:28, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

:The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.