Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Babel (magazine)


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The result was speedy keep - nomination by inexperienced editor unfamiliar with AfD procedure. No prejudice against renomination. Jone Rohne Nester, comment on the content, not the editors. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:07, 23 March 2017 (UTC)

Babel (magazine)

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Delete as per WP:A7 Jone Rohne Nester (talk) 20:54, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment WP:A7 doesn't apply to magazines. – Uanfala (talk) 20:57, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. –  Uanfala (talk) 20:58, 22 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep: Stephen Fry has tweeted about the magazine to his >10 million followers: https://twitter.com/stephenfry/status/452380574268014592 ; The magazine's linguistic consultant is David Crystal, one of Britain's most famous linguists, see his Wikipedia article. As far as I know it is the only magazine with a linguistics focus in the UK and it is widely known and read internationally among language enthusiasts. Latikaakital (talk) 21:03, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment  "An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing" →  WP:PROUD WP:COMPORG — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jone Rohne Nester (talk • contribs) 14:21, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment Uanfala, this magazine is not academic journal. You should do more research, before including debate to list of Academic journals-related deletion discussions . I would suggest you to do more research on academic journals vs "magazine for language enthusiasts". Jone Rohne Nester (talk) 21:21, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as per initial nomination Jone Rohne Nester (talk) 21:21, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Admin note: striking duplicate !vote. Primefac (talk) 21:26, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Additional info to Keep comment above: There is a newspaper article that talks about the magazine: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/film-voice-expert-brendan-gunn-8716067 "He is an enthusiastic reader of Babel, the language magazine first published in 2012 and co-edited by Professors Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre at the University of Huddersfield. They invited him to give the inaugural Babel Lecture – marking the publication’s tenth issue – and Dr Gunn made frequent reference to key articles in the magazine, which has attracted contributions from many leading experts."
 * Keep per WP:GNG. There are lots of mentions on blogs – which by themselves may not be sufficiently reliable to establish notability – but combined with the piece in the Examiner and a couple of Radio 4 segments, as well as some passing mentions in books (e.g. this A Level study guide), I think it rises to the necessary standard. Cnilep (talk) 02:04, 23 March 2017 (UTC)


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