Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Israellycool


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The result was   delete.  Sandstein  17:05, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Israellycool

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Doesn't appear to meet any of the criteria for notability for web content. The article does claim the blog meets such criteria (such as by saying that its liveblogging of the Israeli-Lebanon war resulted in "Aussie Dave", its owner, being interviewed by the BBC and Clear Channel Radio), but searches for things like clear channel "israellycool" -site:israellycool.com -site:blogspot.com -site:facebook.com -site:twitter.com, "aussie dave" bbc -site:israellycool.com -site:wikipedia.org -site:facebook.com, bbc "israellycool" -site:israellycool.com -site:blogspot.com -site:facebook.com -site:twitter.com -site:apple.com, etc. don't show up much else than passing mentions, misspellings of "isreallycool", Wikipedia mirrors, twitter mirrors, israellycool podcasts, and what appears to be an israellycool mirror — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 19:00, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Comment - Perhaps it will become more notable following this, but I agree, right now, it doesn't meet the criteria.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 19:28, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete – per above: no WP:CORPDEPTH or WP:BASIC requirements are satisfied with available sourcing. JFHJr (㊟) 19:34, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 19:37, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  —Tom Morris (talk) 19:37, 2 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - I agree with the nominator, and I only find passing mentions in Google News and Google Books. Not really enough to convince me that this blog is notable. If the mainstream media pick up the story that Sean.hoyland linked to, then I agree that it might become notable, but we shouldn't let hypotheticals bother us too much here - someone can always write a new article based on new sources if they become available. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 19:45, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete Nothing coming from the blog mentioned by Sean is notable. --Shuki (talk) 22:30, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Tikun Olam is highly notable (obviously) and it's conceivable that Richard Silverstein's pieces about Israellycool+JIDF activities will make it into the mainstream media in Israel and elsewhere as his stories often do, but it's not relevant to this decision as others have said. I should add that I posted Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Israel_Palestine_Collaboration/Current_Article_Issues almost 6 months ago. So, editors have had ample opportunity to try to improve the article i.e. it's not likely to get better.  Sean.hoyland  - talk 05:49, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * CommentThere might be more notability to this than even I thought. Israellycool exposed Silverstein to be unreliable and a poor 'journalist' Silverstein thought he exposed 'Aussie Dave' when in fact, Aussie Dave set him up and Silverstein fell for the very poor bait. --Shuki (talk) 19:47, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
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