Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Somerset Spectator (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) Tim Song (talk) 02:01, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Somerset Spectator
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Official website is down; can't find any articles made by newspaper in Google news archive Mattg82 (talk) 18:57, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions.
 * Keep. See this article in The New York Times: Small-Town Weeklies of All Kinds Thriving; Revolution in Weeklies The Google News archive search provides the following excerpt from the article: "5 I}itk tabloid Somerset Spectator, which serves Franklin Town . ship in Somerset CQunty. The two former housewives, who now devote full time to the ..." (The transcription errors are a function of imperfect OCR, not my typing.) The Google News archive search has other references to the newspaper, as well as to one with a similar name in Rhode Island. - Eastmain (talk) 19:27, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. In 2001, this was one of the newspapers of record for the county. Pburka (talk) 00:12, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability does not disappear if the newspaper does.  That the website is no longer active, or if the newspaper is defunct, doesn't affect notability.  Lots of things don't exist anymore and still are notable.  -- Jayron  32  00:36, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of News-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 02:16, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge with Somerset County, New Jersey. This was my assessment at the prior AfD, and it hasn't changed. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:54, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep, as per my reasoning from the last AFD, which hasn't changed. -Hit bull, win steak(Moo!) 19:03, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep This is, or was, a prominent local newspaper. As Jayron32 noted, notability is not temporary. The official website being down, therefore, is not a good reason for deletion. A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 20:45, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Eastmain DRosin (talk) 22:13, 20 December 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.