Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rappahannock News Times


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The result was   redirect to Times Community Newspapers. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:09, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Rappahannock News Times

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A local weekly paper which gets 19 Google hits. There are no sources that help establish notability. Speedy tag removed with the false claim that newspapers are exempt from A7. Deprodded with the edit summary "niche newspaper which serves community of Washington, Viriginia. Cited as a reliable source in other Wikipedia articles". I am not of the opinion that all local newspapers deserve an article, and would prefer to see the usual standards of the General notability guideline applied to this for-profit corporation. Abductive (reasoning) 22:58, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep: I think that all newspapers should have an article. This is one of the very few times that I use WP:IAR. Joe Chill (talk) 00:32, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * If you look at the UK regional daily newspapers template, for example, you will see that many daily UK newspapers don't have articles. That's consistent with people not ignoring the notability rules. Abductive  (reasoning) 02:17, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I really don't care. Joe Chill (talk) 02:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions.  -- Joe Chill (talk) 00:33, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, with regrets. I would go with WP:IAR if this seemed like it was worthy, but this is just a small weekly newspaper with a staff of three.  I can't see how it even comes close to passing WP:N. Bearian (talk) 17:25, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Small, non-notable newspaper. Glass  Cobra  17:15, 14 October 2009 (UTC) Redirect to Times Community Newspapers, per below.  Glass  Cobra  14:40, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to Times Community Newspapers, the newspaper group that owns this weekly. I have completed the merge. Cunard (talk) 06:48, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Times Community Newspapers seems reasonable to me.--RadioFan (talk) 12:10, 15 October 2009 (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.