Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year 2003


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

The Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year 2003

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Blogcruft. One political blog's "award" for one year. PROD tag added, but removed with long comment on irrelevant issues on the talk page. Calton | Talk 01:12, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Big  top  01:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable.  No coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject.  - Aagtbdfoua 01:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Aagtbdfoua. A single award for a single year from a single blog with no independent sourcing. -- Kicking222 02:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. MER-C 04:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as it needs several degrees of removal before you get to a notable topic (like, the award for 03 - award itself - the blog it comes from - the internet itself).-- Dmz5 *Edits**Talk* 05:03, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete This is spam. --Meno25 06:17, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable. Doczilla 07:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, blog-related material with no evidence of WP:RS indicating notability per WP:WEB. -- Kinu t /c  07:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Debris from a blog war, no doubt. --Folantin 09:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Well Calton, you might have copied the already existing discussion to his page as you could probably imagine I didn't find it “irreælevant” since I took the time to write it, and as it address the requirements set up in “Notability (web)” directly.

Looking at the requirements set-up in the “Notability (web)” section. We have:

The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
 * The content has been published in, among other places, :
 * Black & White World II ISBN 0-9724569-1-0
 * Black & White World II ISBN 0-9724569-1-0

The website or content has won a notable independent award from either a publication or organization
 * The website has won several awards. Among them from Jerusalem Post.

In addition, there are several grounds for notability: http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000751.html
 * It is an event on one of the most visited blogs and which is widely reported and talked about outside that blog (google has about 10k hits and technorati reports hits from many sites besides LGF).
 * The cartoonist Cox & Forkum, themselves widely used and “read”, draws (and publish) an annual cartoon to mark the event. e.g.

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000513.html
 * In the voting for the winner, there are several tens of thousands of individuals participating.
 * It is an recurring event, for now five years straight, meaning people will come looking for information (as I did actually) next year, and find is missing.

I personally have no whatsoever affiliation with the blog (or any of the individuals in the voting) so there is no personal gain for in “spamming”. In fact I came here to seek information on the event, and when I found it missing, decided to provide it. Rune X2 09:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep Rune X2 09:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge to Little Green Footballs article. --Dweller 10:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete if this were a generic article on the "award" then a merge and redirect would be appropriate, but to cover a single year in this detail is manifestly disproortionate to its real significance. Guy (Help!) 11:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per Guy, also see Little Green Footballs awards - already adequately covered. &lt;&lt;-armon-&gt;&gt; 16:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete a web award, fails WP:WEB.-- danntm T C 16:58, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, even if the award is notable Wikipedia is not an announcement board for organizations in lieu of their own Alf photoman 17:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable and already covered in the Little Green Footballs awards. Please note there is also a The Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year 2002 article which looks the same as the nominated article here which is not up for AfD. --tgheretford (talk) 19:01, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. PROD tag added. --Calton | Talk 22:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete per above. --Ixfd64 20:00, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per everything said.Ganfon 20:22, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Per above --Sir James Paul, La gloria è a dio 22:46, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Dragomiloff 00:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above Bwithh 05:06, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above Pete.Hurd 02:57, 13 January 2007 (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.