Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irkutsk Ice Truckers


 * 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. There was no support for the arguments of notability put forward by IacobusViridis and the policy explanations of delete voters establishes a consensus. Barkeep49 (talk) 03:51, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Irkutsk Ice Truckers

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I can find no evidence of notability. I see that their book is "independently published". Doug Weller talk 18:17, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  Doug Weller  talk 18:17, 11 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete not notable - all the sources except one are related to the website and not independent, while the one is a blog - not reliable. Searches find nothing significant to show notability. It’s the electronic equivalent of a student magazine, of little importance outside of the college. Neiltonks (talk) 22:24, 11 September 2019 (UTC)

While I agree that Irkutsk Ice Truckers News is quite small and locally focused, it has a national readership with many unaffiliated with the school in New York, Connecticut, and Indiana anecdotally reading it, for example. The website in question Irkutsk Ice Truckers already has more content than the similarly satirical long-running and much more known Eye of the Tiber.

Although Irkutsk Ice Truckers News (IIT), again may be locally focused, its humor is similarly applicable far outside of the region of where many of its editors happen to reside. The site is in fact shared among many other similar schools including Thomas Aquinas College (California/Massachusetts), Christendom College, and Northeast Catholic College. Irkutsk Ice Truckers carries news relating to these schools, in fact and has writers on staff from even outside of these circles.

Irkutsk Ice Truckers and its staff have been made mention of within the official Wyoming Catholic College curriculum with Everett Polinski, its founder, in particular, being the study of a dialogue written by professor and former dean of the college, Dr. Jeremy Holmes that is part of the Freshman Theology sequence.

Again, Irkutsk Ice Truckers is small and would not merit a page in a printed encyclopedia obviously. But its strong and growing in readership, news coverage, and quality as its staff continues to grow. On a free and expansive platform like Wikipedia, however, where there are no constraints like those with printed encyclopedias, there is space, I believe for the sharing of brief factual explanation. IIT's open lampooning of the absurdities often present within Catholic liberal arts colleges and their broader universe of related thought will only continue to get more popular as it is the only full-blown site in this niche.

Thanks for the shot at least, IacobusViridis (talk) 22:51, 12 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete I'm afraid I don't see any substantial reliable secondary sources on a website that's less than a year old. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:17, 16 September 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.