Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Acorn (newspaper)


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request undeletion of these articles. ✗ plicit  15:07, 28 November 2022 (UTC)

The Acorn (newspaper)

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Article about a newspaper publishing group (despite its title, it covers several co-owned and co-branded newspapers rather than just one), not properly referenced as passing WP:CORP. As always, companies are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because their own self-published web presence technically verifies that they exist -- the notability test is the reception of third-party coverage about the company in media sources other than itself to verify that it passes WP:GNG and WP:CORPDEPTH. But the referencing here consists of the newspapers' own websites, Google Maps and simple address directories, with absolutely no evidence of GNG-building coverage about the company shown at all. ETA: Also adding a second, completely unreferenced and semi-advertorialized article about a defunct related newspaper which is apparently a direct predecessor of The Acorn in ways that the Acorn article didn't actually address, which suffers from the same problem of not being shown to pass GNG or CORPDEPTH. Bearcat (talk) 14:24, 21 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: News media, Companies,  and California. Bearcat (talk) 14:24, 21 November 2022 (UTC)


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