Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sausalito News


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The result was no consensus.  Sandstein  19:30, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

Sausalito News

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Delete. Completely unsourced article about a community newspaper in a small suburb of a larger city. WP:NMEDIA does not grant an automatic presumption of notability to all newspapers that exist -- a newspaper still has to be the subject of reliable source coverage to qualify for a Wikipedia article, and does not get a "no sourcing required" freebie just because its own self-published website or an online archive of its issues nominally verifies that it existed. I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can actually find some reliable sourcing about it, but nothing in the article right now is enough. Bearcat (talk) 17:47, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Small suburb of a larger city? I don't think so.  And the Golden Gate Bridge wasn't built until 1937.  Unscintillating (talk) 01:11, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   &#9742;   &#9998;  22:37, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   &#9742;   &#9998;  22:37, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. North America1000 05:23, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 09:24, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete concur with nom. No independent coverage cited nor found. MB 04:44, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to California Digital Newspaper Collection A Wikipedia search for "Sausalito News" shows that this reference is cited often.  The article is unsourced, citations don't appear by themselves, and WP:V is a core content policy.  WP:IAR, since WP:DEL7 cannot be used as stated to protect the encyclopedia from unsourced articles.  Unscintillating (talk) 01:11, 25 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep -- I added citations and content to the article, and I believe it's an acceptable stub on a historic paper at this point. Also ping and  to see what they think. K.e.coffman (talk) 23:55, 25 September 2016 (UTC) Also . K.e.coffman (talk) 23:56, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep : Sufficiently sourced. pretty IittIe Iiar 05:17, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The sources show that it exists, but little more.  FalconK (talk) 06:55, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment Newspapers.com does seem to have coverage. Let me see if I can clip some. --Lemongirl942 (talk) 07:08, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep While this article is starved for better detail, it is verifiable that the paper existed in 1887, and an unknown part of it has been archived at the [[California Digital Newspaper Collection.  Unscintillating (talk) 00:18, 6 October 2016 (UTC)


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