Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slingshot!


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The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 04:01, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Slingshot!

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Article topic—a zine & organization—lacks significant coverage from reliable, independent sources. (?) It is currently sourced to its own website (primary sources) and web, book, and ProQuest searches didn't find more than a passing mention of the anarchist zine or collective. There isn't enough reliable sourcing to describe the topic in encyclopedic depth, nevertheless to do basic justice to the topic. There are no worthwhile redirect targets. If someone finds more (non-English and offline) sources, please ping me. czar 22:19, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete Per WP:GNG. Lacks sufficient coverage in secondary reliable sources. Comatmebro  (talk) 22:38, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment I've added some additional search terms. As noted above, a cursory glance over the book searches reveals many mentions. I haven't delved into them to see if any of them are non-trivial. I have a COI in that I am good friends with a member of the collective--I've asked them if they know of any press that could be used to cite this article. I note that this is often a problem with journals--other journals don't cite them so it is hard to prove notability. See arguments to that effect in Articles for deletion/Salem Monthly and Articles for deletion/The Vancouver Voice. Valfontis (talk) 05:21, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment There may be enough here to keep. It clearly existed at Berkeley back in the day.  A news archive search turned up a mere handful of mentions, sourced, to the newsletter of Earth First! and similar.    A book search on "Slingshot Collective" looks promising.E.M.Gregory (talk) 14:41, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
 * But that was already established... As of now, we have no extensive coverage of the collective or zine in reliable sources that we can use to write an encyclopedia article czar  05:04, 16 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Czar has a point.  I took a closer look at the books and really found nothing to indicate notability.  If someone sources it, feel free to ping me to reconsider.  But as far as I can find, no notable member, no notable actions taken, no WP:SIGCOV found.E.M.Gregory (talk) 16:16, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * DELETE FAILS gng Dlohcierekim (talk) 01:39, 21 June 2017 (UTC)


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