Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Africa Today


 * 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. The keep arguments are persuasive and policy-based. The only delete argument is from the nominator, who bases it on the state of the article rather than the notability of the subject. (Non-admin closure.) --MelanieN (talk) 03:02, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Africa Today

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No Refrences and only one sentaence of text SillyPotatoe (talk) 13:10, 23 November 2014 (UTC) The page has no refrences and barely any writing.SillyPotatoe (talk) 13:10, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep Indexing in the Social Sciences Index is sufficient to meet WP:NJOURNALS. This might actually not be true, but I am still voting keep per Randykitty's comments below.  Everymorning   talk to me  15:33, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 19:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Indiana-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 19:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 19:16, 23 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. Seems like a notable journal under the criteria at WP:NJOURNAL, and looking at the info at Project MUSE and SJR. Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 03:51, 24 November 2014 (UTC*Keep )


 * Delete No but it is lacking refrences and information so Dylanfromthenorth on Wikipedia files can not be kept if lacking references and information.SillyPotatoe (talk) 18:55, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Participants at AfD are not allowed to !vote twice. You have already !voted once by nominating the article. Please unbold the word "delete" in your comment above.
 * WP:NRVE requires that verifiable sources exist somewhere, such as in libraries or on other websites. It does not require them to be cited in the article. Notability doesn't depend on anything that is or isn't in the article. James500 (talk) 04:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep per Everymorning and Dylanfromthenorth. James500 (talk) 04:32, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep I think that several editors above (starting with ) are confusing the "Social Sciences Index" with the "Social Sciences Citation Index". The latter is selective and inclusion in it is generally considered to confirm notability. The former is rather obscure. The journal is (according to this page included in a number of EBSCO and ProQuest databases, none of which is particularly selective. However, the journal is included in Scopus (even though its own homepage does not list this), which makes it meet WP:NJournals (note to : that is only an essay, which I know you don't accept -like WP:NOTINHERITED, so you may want to discount this argument and change your !vote to delete, because this most certainly does not meet GNG). --Randykitty (talk) 12:01, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you're right, Randykitty, I did confuse them with each other. Thanks for pointing that out. I wish I had access to Scopus! Everymorning   talk to me  12:31, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You don't need to have access to Scopus in order to check this. Their journal title list can be accessed online for free here (Excel format). --Randykitty (talk) 23:20, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks for telling me about that. Everymorning   talk to me  00:56, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

On Wikipedia no title lists can be includedSillyPotatoe (talk) 18:34, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Inclusion in scopus satisfies NJournals. WP:IAR, which is policy, impliedly allows us to make limited use of essays, so I don't think I am being inconsistent. James500 (talk) 22:11, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
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