Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of newspapers in Kazakhstan


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The result was   keep. JForget 00:41, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

List of newspapers in Kazakhstan

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Prod removed without any improvement to the article. Wikipedia is not a directory, nor is it a linkfarm. Only one of the items in this list has its own article so the list as a whole appears very spammy. There is virtually no encyclopedic analysis of any of these newspapers here on Wikipedia, and the bulk of this article consists inappropriate usage of external links. If I were to clean up this article in accordance to WP:NOTDIR and WP:EL there wouldn't be anything left in the article.  Them From  Space  09:34, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kazakhstan-related deletion discussions.  --  The  left orium  10:33, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep I picked a random newspaper off the list and it was quite simple to create a new stub about it referencing multiple non-trivial, reliable sources: Kazakhskaya Pravda. I don't see much support for the presumption that the others are any less notable. A list article does not require encyclopedic analysis, and AFD is not for cleanup. cab (talk) 14:45, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. One of the functions of lists is to call attention to encyclopedia subjects that we don't have articles on yet, and the major newspapers of Kazakhstan would appear to qualify.  I don't see a problem with the links; since they seem to link to multiple, competing papers, there doesn't seem to be a major spam problem here.  In the fullness of time, we may have articles here about each of these papers; until then, the links send people to where they can learn more. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:04, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: Per WP:LIST. Joe Chill (talk) 18:07, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: If one country's newspapers aren't notable enough to have a list of them, then none of them are. Mjroots (talk) 18:41, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per WP:List and above.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 16:43, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
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