Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture


 * 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. As much as it pains me to delete a journal, Guillaume's arguments carry the day. Drmies (talk) 15:52, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

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Article was PRODded with reason "Non-notable journal, apparently moribund (homepage even appears to have been hacked years ago without anybody noticing). No independent sources except an in-passing mention in a book. Not indexed in any major selective databases. Does not meet WP:GNG or WP:NJournals." DePRODded with "pls take it through more thorough possible deletion process", so here we are. PROD reason still stands, no sources whatsoever, hence: delete. Guillaume2303 (talk) 08:07, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Judith Butler sits on their Advisory Board, although this referenced info was deleted from the page. David M. Halperin has also published in this journal. I created a stub, but I believe it has plenty of potential to be expanded. Strong keep Zigzig20s (talk) 09:26, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment As has been discussed many times at the Academic Journals Wikiproject, membership of an editorial board generally does not mean much for this kind of publications. Unless there are reliable sources indicating that Butler has significant involvement with the journal, it is not appropriate to list her in the article. The article has been PRODded for a while, but no improvements have been forthcoming. This AfD will take some time, too, so you have had and still have plenty of opportunity to add sources to the article showing the notability of this journal. If you cannot provide sources, then your claim that the article has potential is just an empty one. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 09:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Can you please provide a reference for your claim that the editorial board was deemed unimportant by the project? Anyway, my hope is that we'll get more people with a new perspective involved in this decision-making process, since we both clearly disagree.Zigzig20s (talk) 10:05, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Just look at the talk pages, the journal article writing guide, DGG's suggestions for what journal articles should contain, and WP:NOTINHERITED. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 10:15, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:22, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep, notable members of advisory board, and coverage in secondary source published by Oxford University Press. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:01, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Question What coverage? Note that references 1 and 2 in the article are actually identical. The journal is just one in a large list, i.e., an in-passing mention. As for notable members of the board (actually, apparently just one), that's WP:NOTINHERITED. And it's really a bad sign if a journal does not succeed to attract more notable people for its board. Few issues were produced, which seem to have been hardly cited at all and, hence, have not made an impact on their field. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 04:46, 8 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. --Legis (talk - contribs) 07:03, 8 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete as lacking in-depth coverage in reliable, independent third-party sources. Should such sources be integrated into the article, feel free to leave a note on my talk page and I'll take another look. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
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