User talk:Darothster

Hi Darothster, I saw your question at Articles for deletion/SLOVO Academic Journal. I'm sorry that nobody answered your question beforehand. Wikipedia has some general notability guidelines for articles to follow. That page is here: Notability. One of the ways we determine if something is notable is whether or not the entity has received coverage from other independent sources. This guideline works pretty well for bands or groups or people. For example, a band that I have with my friends in the basement won't have any reliable sources and it probably shouldn't be an article anyways.

It's a little bit trickier with academic journals. Most editors believe that it would be impractical to have a Wiki article on every journal, because some journals are so obscure that they could cease publishing and almost nobody would know! Or what about a journal that's produced by undergraduate students? What about a poetry journal at a high school? What about an alternative humor newspaper at a college? So it becomes tricky. One thing that could help editors evaluate SLOVO would be to see if there are reviews about the journal. One Wikipedia editor who is a librarian, User:DGG, looked up which indexes cover the journal. But if you can provide other evidence about the importance of the journal, that would help.

I see you're new to Wikipedia. It's a bit confusing at first (to support 2.1 million articles there are a lot of policies and guidelines that are overwhelming when you're starting out), and if you ever have any questions, let me know. --JayHenry (talk) 06:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC)