Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UWO Gazette


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The result was merge to University of Western Ontario. SoWhy 14:57, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

UWO Gazette

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While it exists, currently sourced by mostly by primary or non-independent sources. Searches turned up not enough in-depth coverage to show it passes wp:gng.  Onel 5969  TT me 03:04, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment. The references are almost certainly out there for a long-established student newspaper at a leading Canadian university. I suggest looking for references within published histories of the university and within published histories of journalism and student activism in Canada. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:31, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Redirect Redirect to University of Western Ontario, unless substantial substantive coverage can be found. Unlike Eastmain, I do not hold out much hope for "published histories of the university' as Talman is already cited and hardly constitutes substantive coverage. Similarly, articles about "student activism" seldom have substantive coverage of student newspapers. Given the state of coverage, the UWO Gazette is not independently notable under the WP:GNG, and  Wikipedia coverage should be limited to a sentence or two in the University of Western Ontario article. --Bejnar (talk) 05:37, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. I understand that one thing is not necessarily notable just because WP:OSE, but this is not substantially different from the other articles about Canadian university newspapers. There are independent sources. It could use some editing (I am not disputing that it currently contains some irrelevant fluff), but deleting it entirely is unnecessary and even redirecting it seems a bit extreme. (I feel like I should note that I have nothing to do with the Gazette, aside from nostalgia for the comics and puzzles.) Adam Bishop (talk) 11:53, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
 * "Other stuff exists" is not really a good argument for keeping an article. See, for example, WP:OTHERCONTENT.  Each article should stand or fall on its own merits.  It is theoretically possible that no Canadian university newspaper is sufficiently notable.  In general college papers aren't. --Bejnar (talk) 03:19, 19 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Selective Merge to University of Western Ontario § Media, which only has a passing mention. This will improve the merge target article. See also: WP:ATD-M. North America1000 05:23, 25 August 2018 (UTC)


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