Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rygos naujienos


 * 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   keep. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:38, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Rygos naujienos

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Seems like the article is for advertising new business venture - says there is such online newsite, but link to it goes to e-mail server of the owner Xil  (talk) 19:47, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep over half the article discusses the previous publication of that name, which was a major newspaper until 1915. The content about the later part needs a little adjustment, along the lines of the Lithuanian WP article but the article is not overly promotional. I would think it very poor judgment to delete a historic newspaper that the WP of its country of origin thinks notable.  DGG ( talk ) 04:40, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Lithuania is not the country of its origin. There is hardly any source in Latvian (and usually notable local publications in other languages are covered) on it and nothing much in English either Xil  (talk) 23:31, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
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This newspaper is of Lithuanian origin. It was founded by the famous Lithuanian writer Liudvikas Jakaviciaus and was printed in Ryga (Latvia). It was a newspaper for the Lithuanian Diaspora living in Latvia and it was written in English. In the National Library of Lithuania there is a complete collection of this newspaper and there is some of this newspaper in the Siauliu Ausros Museum in LT. It was a very important newspaper but to my knowledge there is not a new version. Megan2012 
 * Keep. All references to the contemporary reestablishment of this early 20th-century newspaper have been excised, thus laying to rest nominator's concerns concerning advertising. As to nominator's subsequent concern about a lack of sourcing in English or Latvian, I will grant that this is true, but the Lithuanian sources provided in the article and others available from Google Books and Everything searches are sufficient for me. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 21:58, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, → B  music  ian  01:35, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep - I'm currently working on an article on a newspaper of similar vintage, so this topic is near to me. Also near to me, believe it or not, is volume 3 of Mazoji Lietuviskoji Tarubine Enciklopedija (Small Lithuanian Soviet Encyclopedia) (Vilnius: Mintis, 1971), which includes an entry for this liberal newspaper, published from December 1909 to September 1915 on page 80. This is by no means the only Lithuanian encyclopedia on the planet, presume existence of other sources. Leave the serious historical shit alone! Carrite (talk) 16:05, 23 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment — I'm trying to figure out what the issue was here; I guess it's deleted material on the contemporary website by the same name. A century after the fact, rest assured that there is no connection. There are additional sources listed in the references section, particularly the Lithuanian journalism encyclopedia listed first, which plus the work I cite should be enough for a keep. The contemporary site is gone and should stay gone; it should have been edited away by the nominator rather than dragging the main piece to AFD, in my view. Anyway, onward... Carrite (talk) 16:13, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - Half of the article was an advertisment, I did a websearch and couldn't find anything to establish that the topic is notable enough. With diaspora newspaper it is significant that in the country it was published in, no one seems to have heard about it. I figured it might as well be some guy who felt like connecting to his roots for better marketing by using name of newspaper his ancestors used to publish (and on the other hand, if I was to believe that the whole thing is not an ad, it might as well have been that the supposed new edition is genuine, notable project - hence I didn't remove it)  Xil  (talk) 13:40, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep: Plenty of significant coverage. SL93 (talk) 20:56, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
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