Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Churumuri (blog)


 * 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   no consensus. Wizardman 13:56, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Churumuri (blog)

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Most of the references are from the blog itself. Pray tell how does this blog pass the notability test? some more references are referencing stories mentioned on the blog, not referencing the blog itself. yet other references are about the contributors to the blog.

Is notability inherited by the famousness of the author/contributors? (if you can indeed call them famous)

Only two credible references refer to the blog, one in the context of the traffic it generated and the other when The Hindu responded to some question raised by the blog...

I'm curious to see, how do other wikipedia editors see the status of this entry.

I was tempted to log-out, before I AfD'd this article as Indian Journalists are a sharp tongued lot. but what the heck... ChiragPatnaik (talk) 19:41, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  22:53, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Comment If stories on this blog and the blog contributors have been mentioned by others then this is evidence of notability. If you feel details of the blog would more appropriately appear in the Authors wikipage then a merge is more appropriate. Filceolaire (talk) 23:10, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't for even a minute doubt that it is an excellent blog. I and many others frequent it quite often. Should it be here, is what I'm asking ChiragPatnaik (talk) 03:04, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Keep - It has nothing to do with "famousness". Journalists arent exactly rock stars. Its about 'notability'. Both the owner/author of the blog and the blog itself are "notable". The blog is owned by Krishna Prasad, a former editor of a major newspaper (until the world's largest English daily bought it and shut it down) and a distinguished journalist who has worked at many major news organisations. If not for anything else, he's comfortably notable for wikipedia's purposes as one of the journalists who exposed Indian cricket's match-fixing scandal.

Now the blog. Apart from the fact that it is owned by a notable journalist, sound 'bytes' from the blog also feature fairly regularly in the reportage and op-eds run by many of other major news houses including CNN-IBN... particularly when they are covering Karnataka affairs. That is enough indication of its notability for wikipedia's purposes.

Now, if you have concerns about the sourcing, that is an entirely different matter. If I'm right, the article has changed more than a fair bit since I authored it several months ago. Nevertheless, sourcing may very well need clean up, but we dont need an AfD for that. Feel free to slap appropriate tags on it if you will and I'm sure somebody will eventually get to it. Sarvagnya 16:52, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Keep Looking at the references, I think this one can pass WP:N, though the "Notability" section in the article could be renamed. IceUnshattered (talk) 18:23, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * most of the references are from the blog itself. Other refs are about something the blog covered. two links don't point to anything relevant. Sydney Morning herald blog is not about Churumuri, but the cricket controversy. New Indian express mentions churumuri, but in the passing. the NYT story is not about the blog. It refers to Krishna Prasad as "brightest young journalists". Is notabilty of the blog inherited from the owner of blog? ChiragPatnaik (talk) 18:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - a non-notable blog by a non-notable author. The idea that Krishna Prasad is notable due to a former job as an editor is absurd. Furthermore even if the author is notable to claim that the blog then is is based on that merit is counter to WP:INHERITED (Blogmaverick?)--T-rex 00:20, 4 August 2008 (UTC)


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