Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Macedonian Treasure Trove


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 13:26, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Macedonian Treasure Trove

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Originally tagged for CSD as copyvio. If you do a search for the first sentence of the article in Google, you will find that the text was previously posted to Facebook and to the blog I mentioned.. It seems to have been removed from there after I nominated the article which may or may not mean that the author of the Wikipedia article is also the person who owns the blog. That would raise serious WP:COI and advertizing issues ("our magazine"). In addition I don't believe this publication passes Notability (books) Travelbird (talk) 12:11, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unless there are foreign language sources that I was unable to find with a google search and translation program, I'm going to say that this just isn't a notable magazine at this point in time. The magazine seems to have launched fairly recently, with this link and this Wikipedia entry saying that the first issue was launched in August of 2012. I know that being new doesn't always mean that it can't get notability, but when you have something that looks to be relatively non-mainstream it's unlikely that it will achieve that overnight notability. It may become notable in the future, but it doesn't seem to be notable right here and now. I do want to note that this CNN report is not actually by CNN but by a CNN blog that anyone can edit on, if anyone was thinking that this might give notability. On a side note, the text there looks to be identical to what is currently on the Wikipedia entry here, so this might be able to be speedied again for copyvio. I think it's fairly obvious that this is by the same people who created the foreign language wiki entry, as the translated text seemed incredibly similar. In any case, this looks to be a rather obvious attempt at self promotion.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 15:39, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete based on current content. No independent sources have been provided yet. Also, the article is written in first person which suggests promotional motives. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 18:31, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - This is a very minor, non-English, new-ish magazine based in Macedonia.  This WP article is a bit promotional.   Recommend delete until the magazine gets some independent sources discussing it.  I suppose there is a small chance that some foreign language sources talk about it in a significant manner, but "Keep" editors would need to provide such sources.  --Noleander (talk) 21:47, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - per all above. --Sue Rangell ✍ ✉ 00:56, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Macedonia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - advertising piece. Does not appear notable at this time. Lady  of  Shalott  03:53, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
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