Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oregon State Media, Inc.


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The result was redirect to Oregon Herald. Daniel (talk) 23:38, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Oregon State Media, Inc.

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Both the corporation and the "news website" are lacking notability per WP:GNG- significant coverage, reliable, sources, independent of the subject. It's hard to confirm that it exists except by very raw primary sources (eg state corporate records). Further, it is far from meeting WikiProject Newspapers/Notability.

Note this is NOT the historic newspaper, it's a website reusing the name.

Some history on OSMI/Oregon Herald:

The article for "Oregon Herald" (the website) was originally created in 2007 and deleted by PROD in the same year. A version must have existed in some form in 2010, and was recreated in 2011 with cleanup tags dated 2010 (so, copy/pasted).

This page, OSMI, was created in 2011 also. The organization was incorporated in 2010 and dissolved in 2018. Their address is simply a commercial post office box. Dissolution doesn't directly affect notability but still interesting. And I'm actually surprised this isn't directly part of the pink slime journalism network- that would make it MORE likely to be notable.

Related AFDs I'm creating at the same time:
 * Articles for deletion/Event Horizons BBS
 * Articles for deletion/Jim Maxey tedder (talk) 18:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. tedder (talk) 18:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. tedder (talk) 18:37, 22 June 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete, per nom.-- Surv1v4l1st ▌Talk 22:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Oregon Herald. I've searched several times in recent years for better sources and come up short. It's worthwhile that a reader who looks for this should get some info, but as stated in the nom, it certainly lacks the notability required by WP:GNG or any relevant standard including WP:WPNEWS/Notability. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 23:53, 1 July 2021 (UTC)


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