Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Podcast Awards


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The result was   keep. JForget 21:00, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Podcast Awards

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I looked through the google news hits for this Award and see very little coverage by main stream media. Most of the hits seem to be press releases from the organization itself. I'll gladly withdraw this nomination if significant coverage is found Corpx (talk) 08:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)


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 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete There are a lot of Google news hits but the nominator is correct that these hits appear to nearly all be verbatim reprints of press release from the organization promoting these awards or from organizations which were nominated or won an award. There is a single brief CNN/Money article  about the awards but taken as a whole, this is not the kind of "significant 3rd party coverage" that general notability guidelines require. RadioFan (talk) 11:50, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep. I respectfully disagree, I believe this article, while lacking a terrible amount of coverage in the more traditional new sources, still satisfies the "significant coverage" aspect of WP:N.  There are several sources that do cover the event when it appears, and while I personally can't imagine it being a terribly enthralling or prestigious honor, 350,000 votes is hard to ignore, and I think that combined with the limited yet acceptably significant coverage make it notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. AP1787 (talk) 04:49, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Which sources specifically are you referring to? Corpx (talk) 06:00, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Look in the Google Books returns. Those can't be press releases. Abductive  (reasoning) 07:07, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * If memory serves there was a CNN Money article on it somewhere, as well as a few other smaller news articles, as noted above. In addition, it is mentioned, as stated above, in some books.  While certainly not the most prestigious award ever, I think it satisfies Wikipedia's requirements.  If you'd like links to more specific examples of coverage, I'd be more than happy to provide them. AP1787 (talk) 17:41, 7 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep I'm swayed by two observations:
 * As noted, there is coverage in a number of books. Not a lot, but a few.
 * The list of winners includes quite a number of podcasts with their own article. I don't mean to suggest that Notability is inherited, but the main awards ceremony for notable subjects, where there is coverage meets the bar for me.-- SPhilbrick  T  16:36, 5 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep
 * I would agree on the point about the book references.
 * Full text article from Sarasota Herald-Tribune on a local podcast winner and the Awards.
 * and were within the first couple of pages of results on Google News regarding "podcast awards" and while the full article is locked down, both appear to be articles from the Philly Inquirer and the Stockton Record, respectively, that are local coverage of podcast and award winners.
 * Interestingly, appears to be a scientific paper describing the qualities of a "credible and quality" podcast and uses the Podcast Awards and the 2007 nominees as a framework for discussing their proposed framework for analyzing podcasts.
 * Dwinches (talk) 01:32, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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