Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/INewsit


 * 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   delete. Cirt (talk) 03:22, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

INewsit

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I have been unable to find any independent, relaible sources which could be used to form the basis of a neutral, verifiable encyclopaedia article about this six month old website. Third party sources are a requirement of the general notability guideline and the specific guideline for web content, the only sources I can find are the one's given in the article which are just links to the website itself, an advertisement, a Facebook page and a page in Arabic which (from judging from an online translator website) appears to be a similar advertisement. Guest9999 (talk) 17:26, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Unremarkable group, no references Arma virumque cano (talk) 17:51, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This user's primarily contributions to Wikipedia have been to !vote (primarily delete) on dozens of AfDs approximately 1 minute apart from each other. See AN thread --ThaddeusB (talk) 19:07, 23 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as per nom. RP459 (talk) 18:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

I am the original author of this page. This page should not be deleted. the reason and created it was because it is now one of the major Citizen news websites. I use to contribute to CNN's I-Report but now am a regular contributor to iNewsit. I have now added the link to the Alexa Ranking statistics in the references. The site has been ranked around the top 200,000 sites in the world and it has been very useful for me as a student journalist as one of my videos was purchased by a news agency in the middle east thanks to iNewsit. I have also added another third party article mentioning some controversy surrounding iNewsit in the references now. Hope that is ok.

Moghul (talk) 11:06, 18 May 2009 (UTC) Moghul
 * The entire content relating to INewsit from the additional source (published yesterday) is "iNewsit by the Asian ex-pat Pro-Palestine crowd" - not exactly substantial coverage, I'm also not certain whether "The Daily Clarity" is a reliable source in the first place

I could not find much else in the mainstream media about iNewsit, TheDailyClarity is another journalist/blogger who contributes to many Citizen News websites(very well known in this community). Why do you say TheDailyClarity is not a reliable source? I found out about iNewsit from ijnet which is a totaly independant organisation for journalists to network. The reference on their(www.ijnet.org) site and the arabic site are totally independent and are not advertisments by iNewsit. These organisations actually research different opportunities and will only publish somthing if its worthwile. Moghul (talk) 00:15, 19 May 2009 (UTC)moghul
 * I apologise for my characterisation of the ijnet link as an advertisement, that is how it appeared to me as it highlighted how people could get involved and the weekly deadline. I'm not really sure how "opportunity postings" like that are usually considered. Reliable sources are sources with a reputation for fact checking and accuracy - this is not the case for most bloggers, as I said above I'm not certain as to whether the site mentioned could be considered reliable, i.e. I genuinely didn't know and wasn't able to find sufficient information to satisfy the question one way or another. Guest9999 (talk) 04:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

I understand where you were coming from, but the problem is trying to find many references for this kind of thing is extremely hard as most media will not talk about their competitors due to the fear of promoting them at the same time. Most of the discussions about iNewsit are on forums etc. Most similar initiatives are owned by large media organisations such as CNN and these organisations will try and avoid mentioning one of their competitors. I wanted to write about a few other smaller and less well known Citizen News websites but I could not find anything about them anywhere at all except on forums. Is it worth me writing about them and referencing forums or will those new articles be deleted if I do this? I Am quite new to wikipedia but love the fact that I can contribute to this amazing knowledgeable. Feel free to add any information to my iNewsit article. Moghul (talk) 08:33, 19 May 2009 (UTC)Moghul
 * I'd never say never with Wikipedia but I think it's unlikely an article based only on forum posts would be accepted. An exception might be if the posts were made by accepted experts in the field - see Self-published sources (online and paper). Guest9999 (talk) 14:25, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no coverage in reliable sources. Note that the IJnet articel is essentially a want ad posting in the training opportunity section.  That isn't something that (in my opinion) counts toward notability and the reliability is questionable. -- Whpq (talk) 13:34, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
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