Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knoxville Daily Sun


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 22:41, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Knoxville Daily Sun

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Non-notable online news source. Proving notability for a news source is difficult as there's no specific criteria for them and it can be difficult to find news publications about a news publication that are independent. I'll give it a shot anyway. Subject fails WP:GNG with no Google News search or Google News Archive search results (I excluded the website's publications from the search). The subject also fails WP:WEBSITE as I can't find that it has won any awards. I thought perhaps if it had been widely cited by other news sources that it could be considered notable but I can't find a single care where other news sources have cited KDS but I'm not sure that I was able to perform and adequate enough search to say with authority that it's never been cited.  Ol Yeller21 Talktome  17:17, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Non-notable. I live in the Knoxville area, but I had never heard of this "newspaper" until seeing this AfD. From reading the article and looking at the online newspaper website, I determined that this "newspaper" is nothing more than a promotional website operated by a website development and marketing company in the area. (I was familiar with the name of the business, having seen some of their other websites.) On this page, the company appears to describe the site as a "web portal for a geographic area". Between OlYeller's searching and my insights, I think we can conclude that this is non-notable. Note: An earlier version of the article was speedy-deleted two years ago. --Orlady (talk) 18:25, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mediran  ( t  •  c ) 03:02, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete: Per OlYeller and Orlady - Orlady's argument in particular convinces me; some locally known subjects do not meet notability criteria, but a truly notable subject should be known locally, except if relates to a very specific interest. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 03:34, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per Orlady. I think we should be generous in our consideration of the notability of media outlets, but under the most generous standards I still find no real indicia of notability, and Orlady's research bears that out. --Arxiloxos (talk) 07:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, OlYeller and Orlady. If it had an actual paper edition I would reconsider. -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 22:28, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
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