Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Canadian Business Journal


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The result was   delete. (soft). There are neutrality problems with the tone, too (see also Canadian_business_journal and Canadianbusinessjournal, similar incarnations created by the same user). slakr \ talk / 07:43, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

The Canadian Business Journal

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I am not seeing how this business is Notable. The references are dead links or go to business listings (BBB) or the like. In searches, I'm seeing mostly first-party (including sister sites) links or companies/towns 'profiled' by CBJ pointing to the article in the issue. Stesmo (talk) 22:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment - I'm leaning towards delete, but it may be helpful to post what criteria is used to determine notability of professional journals. Cpuser20 (talk) 03:40, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - "References" include several 404 errors, a BBB Business Review to an allegedly related entity (but that does not mention the subject), and a press release.--Rpclod (talk) 04:07, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. A narrow google search of mentions yields almost 2 billion hits- this journal is very active. Remember, References don't establish notability.JacobiJonesJr (talk) 02:32, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment Thanks for weighing in, u|JacobiJonesJr. First, I don't believe the number of hits or being an active company show Notability (see WP:COMPANY). I accept I may be wrong here. Second, I'm unable to replicate your results. If I search on "Canadian Business Journal" -wikipedia (a very loose search), I get only one million hits not 2 billion. If I start to restrict first-party hits from cbj.ca / canadianbusinessjournal.ca and the other publications from GeorgeNetwork (http://www.georgenetwork.com/publication/index.1.html for list) with -site:georgenetwork.com for example and remove -site:facebook.com and -site:linkedin.com results as well, that number drops quickly to around 74,000. Now, looking at the results reveals a pattern to me: the results are overwhelmingly seem to be press releases or fit into "Canadian Business Journal features the SomethingSomething" and "SomethingSomething Featured in Canadian Business Journal" essentially just advertising the 'article' published in CBJ about that company, town, etc. I don't believe this is "significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources". Stesmo (talk) 03:31, 5 September 2014 (UTC)


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 The links can be easily updated. If you are going to link to external content on the web, you are bound to have some 404 errors over time. The Canadian Business Journal is a business publication. Rather than deleting something, why not try to edit it and make it better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WeKeyMedia (talk • contribs) 04:03, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
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