Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Politeia (journal)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  23:30, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

Politeia (journal)

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Tagged for notability since 2010, eight years after the last publication of this journal. Fails WP:GNG. UtherSRG (talk) 13:27, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academic journals and South Africa. UtherSRG (talk) 13:27, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment The fact that it was last published in 2002 seems like a red herring. Either it is/was notable or it isn’t/wasn’t in terms of WP:NTEMP. Park3r (talk) 22:53, 29 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete. Not indexed in any selective databases, no independent sources. Does not meet WP:NJournals or WP:GNG. --Randykitty (talk) 07:46, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't know why the article says it stopped publishing in 2002; that is straight-up incorrect. It is still live, still published by the University of South Africa, and "approved" by DHET. Jlalbion (talk) 11:42, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Wow! Thanks, that is odd. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:47, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  14:10, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That was added in 2010. Note that the current archive does not go back beyond 2001, so it seems that this is a new website. Indeed, if one clicks the official website link in older versions of the article here, you are redirected to a page that says "This website was recently revamped and the page you were looking for has been removed". Perhaps the old website was not maintained for a while, giving the impression that the journal was defunct. In any case, I have expanded the article with everything that I could find and I see no reason to change my !vote above. --Randykitty (talk) 12:33, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you! I added another sentence. The journal is certainly well known to South African political scientists, but I also can't find much secondary coverage and I'll leave it to more experienced editors to assess notability. Jlalbion (talk) 11:05, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete It exists, it is a thing, but as others have noted above, its history - at least online - has been somewhat patchy and I can find little/nothing out there that would establish any credible degree of notability. Best Alexandermcnabb (talk) 14:22, 6 July 2023 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.