Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Venus Zine


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The result was   keep. X clamation point  04:55, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Venus Zine

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Non-notable magazine. There is COI involved as well; one of the main contributors is an IP who is a single-purpose account adding mentions of this magazine in dozens of articles, and the creator of the article (User:Amywestervelt, who just so who just so happens to have the same name as the magazine's editor)in it's original incarnation had the article saying "You know how some women's magazines can be a little man-hating? Chicago-based Venus Zine [1] is like their more evolved sister. If both were actual women, Venus Zine would be smart, cool, independent, and oh yeah, a strong woman." CyberGhostface (talk) 00:52, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:Note and the spamming of links to the zine throughout a bunch of music articles (which I ended up cleaning up) didn't help influence me towards a keep. --Blowdart | talk 00:57, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I think what we need here is other magazines that mention this one to establish notability.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 02:57, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Mgm below.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 14:43, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep it is a notable magazine, sure it is no Rolling Stones, but it meets Wikipedia notability. It has had many notable musicians on it's covers and in the magazine, also other notability here. I mean geeze if we get rid of this saying it is not notable, then over half of the Wikipedia articles should go, ridiculous.--Sugarcubez (talk) 12:52, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep per Sugarcubez. http://www.venuszine.com/about_us shows several high profile magazines wrote about this magazine. There's the technicality that we have to confirm it by actually digging up those other magazines, but that's clearly possible, so this zine is notable. - Mgm|(talk) 22:39, 12 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment I'd like to see the context of the articles (I.E. how important Venuz Zine was to the article and how much of it is a passing reference; the NY Times mention, for example, is just a sentence long) and the articles themselves. If the magazine was truly notable, the editor wouldn't have to be the one to create a self-promoting article, and they wouldn't have to anonymously spam dozens of articles with mentions of the magazine.--CyberGhostface (talk) 00:45, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


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