User talk:BlueOx003

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Hello, BlueOx003, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of the pages you created, such as The Critical Badger, may not conform to some of Wikipedia's guidelines, and may not be retained.

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Proposed deletion of The Critical Badger


The article The Critical Badger has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * wordpress blog not notable

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on |the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Meatsgains (talk) 02:59, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I proposed this article for deletion because after going to the actual online blog, I realized it is/was published on wordpress. Can you determine whether or not the blog is still in existence? IMO, the blog is not notable aside from the "grade fraud" exposure, which would fall under WP:NOTNEWS and thus not deserve its own page. Meatsgains (talk) 03:13, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I strongly disagree. This was a notable website and especially well known in the hyper-local blogsophere, which in its infancy, had a unique impact on local journalism across the United States. I would also add that being from Chicago, you may think "less" of Wisconsin, and its journalism, but you went rogue on this Wikipedia page without justification. It was a significant enough website that until your "concern", certainly justified its page. I could not disagree more with your proposed deletion, although some of the technical edits appear sufficiently warranted. BlueOx003
 * BlueOx003, trying to remove the notification banner at the top of the page was improper. It also doesn't work. All you did was remove the link to the page where the proposed-deletion will be discussed and decided. You can oppose deletion at Articles_for_deletion/The_Critical_Badger. BTW, try to avoid comments like rogue edits made by one user. There is nothing "rogue" about somebody nominating a marginal article for deletion. You are just as much "one user" as the other editor. Alsee (talk) 06:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Alsee, fair enough, and my apologies to Meatsgains. I think I edited it correctly now. BlueOx003
 * I just realized that the article was tagged with *both* AFD (article for deletion discussion) and PROD (proposed deletion). That created extremely confusing situation. PROD explicitly invites anyone to remove it at will. It's very understandable why you accidentally removed the "attached" AFD notice at the same time. I made a mistake when I restored the PROD along with the AFD. Yes, you have it correct now. Good work sorting out the mess.
 * P.S. You can sign posts with ~ . It automagically converts to username&date. Alsee (talk) 07:45, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * As Alsee stated, refrain from calling my contributions rogue here, on the AfD submission, and in your edit summaries. I worked to improve the page's poor quality. Meatsgains (talk) 14:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * *In response to the above* This was not a "Wordpress blog" by 2015 standards. The website was hosted via Wordpress, but it had its own dedicated domain. By 2015 standards, it would be considered a journalism website and in fact it was quite significant in the legal and journalism communities. The justification for deleting this page is inconsistent with Wikipedia's notability policy as it has been widely cited in national outlets like the U.S. News and World Report (already cited), ABA Law Journal (already cited), Wisconsin State Journal (already cited), Above the Law (which is not cited in the original Wikipage), FindLaw (also not cited in the original page, but it exists), Instapundit (which has its own Wikipedia page ) and that's just my quick research. I would further add that deleting this page is contrary to Wikipedia's interest in democratizing knowledge. Local journalism's significance is, by its very nature, harder to define in comparison to its national counterparts. By deleting significant "hyper-local" website entries, Wikipedia is further concentrating knowledge of American websites and journalism to a select, elite few. I strongly encourage editors to leave this page in existence. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.25.190.65 (talk) 15:32, 12 November 2015 (UTC)