Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theweek


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  Zoozaz1    talk  00:35, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Theweek

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Notable? GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 18:42, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

A newspaper from Oman. The article is unsourced. The article has been sitting here since 2006. There hadn't been any sources added ever since. Searching is also difficult, as "the week", even if written as one word, is not a special or outstanding phrase, so there are numerous other results with these words included. It doesn't help that there is another newspaper named The Week, so most of the results are about that instead. So I tried searching with "Theweek Oman", finally some sites are available that are actually about this paper, unfortunately they are not independent at all. The results were the following: the paper's official site, and their facebook, pinterest and twitter pages. The rest of the results are stuff like the words appear separately, like "the week in Oman" or "this week in Oman" and the like. So I couldn't find anything reliable about this paper. Is it notable? I don't think so. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 18:40, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  19:24, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Middle East-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone  19:25, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment: Searching "Theweek" AND "Oman" I was able to find two reliable sources discussing an incident which the paper was involved with in 2013. The two sources are the UK version of PinkNews and Reuters, which explain how Theweek published an article about Oman's underground LGBTQ scene which then resulted in a Theweek editor being sued by the Omani government, and Theweek publishing an apology for the story. The Reuters link is here, and the UK PinkNews article is here. The reason why I wrote this as a comment rather than an argument for "Keep" is because I'm not sure if two reliable sources is enough to warrant keeping the article, since I really cannot find any others (and it appears the OP had trouble finding sources as well). --PubSyr (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: To answer part of the OP's concerns about the proper way to refer to this source, it appears that the proper way to refer to the newspaper (as is done in Reuters and PinkNews) is as "TheWeek" - one word, with the initial "T" and medial "W" capitalized. --PubSyr (talk) 21:14, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: Hmm, the language situation here is interesting. This appears to be an English-language newspaper, but my understanding is that Arabic is the lingua franca in Oman. There's no Arabic version of this page, but I find it plausible that there might be some Arabic-language coverage. the sources above would probably only count as one, since it's for the same event, but IAR I'm inclined to !vote keep, since a publication with more than 150,000 weekly circulation feels sufficiently notable to me. &#123;{u&#124;  Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 23:32, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 00:16, 14 November 2020 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, YorkshireLad ✿  (talk) 20:22, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment per above. – Cupper 52 Talk to me! 20:26, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: There are actually plenty more sources if you dig. Per previous comments there are plenty of articles about that dustup in 2013, way more than two in-depth articles in WP:RS (I'll just cherry-pick the first few google hits, but there are way more: 1,2,3), but that could be vulnerable to being just WP:ONEEVENT. However, there is far more coverage than that if you poke around. Here are circulation numbers and a brief comparative discussion of it in the context of Oman's publishing scene. Here is business coverage of it that suggests it's notable for being the first newspaper in Oman to do something or other related to circulation auditing. And here's coverage of its circulation and niche in an Oxford Business Group report (sadly only semi-online, but easily enough content included in the google preview to tell that it's in-depth). That's just what I could find in the first few google hits, if you hit put your shoulder into it I'm sure there's more out there. So WP:GNG is easily there if you look. - Astrophobe  (talk) 21:01, 22 November 2020 (UTC)


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