Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victoria Government Gazette


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn per strong Keep consensus (non-admin closure)  // Timothy ::  talk  02:55, 10 August 2020 (UTC)

Victoria Government Gazette

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The article does not meet WP:GNG. The subject lacks multiple independent secondary sources providing significant coverage. Per WP:SIGCOV: ""Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail". WP:BEFORE revealed no additional WP:RS that addresses the subject directly and in-depth that would establish notability. The article does not provide encyclopedic content and meets WP:NOTEVERYTHING.  // Timothy ::  talk  19:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions.   // Timothy ::  talk  19:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.   // Timothy ::  talk  19:59, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep. We have articles on similar publications for sub-national units in other Commonwealth countries. See, e.g., Kerala Gazette, Ontario Gazette. Making a WP:OSE argument because these are, in my view, strictly analogous. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 22:15, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 22:21, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Strong keep per AleatoryPonderings. The state gazettes are longstanding and notable. Deus et lex (talk) 23:46, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete this fails the secondary in-depth coverage in multiple reliable sources needed to pass WP:GNG and just having other extremely badly sourced articles on similar things isn't a good reason to keep it. I'd suggest doing AfDs on them also. Since they clearly fail WP:GNG. While I'm not a huge fan ofWP:OSEs arguments in general, I'm even less a fan of them when the "other stuff" doesn't even meet the notability guidelines. "lets keep this non-notable thing, because of these other non-notable things" is extremely weak reasoning IMO. What it should ultimately come down to is if the subject of the AfD passes WP:GNG or not, and as things currently are this doesn't. --Adamant1 (talk) 01:31, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, but I'm not sure that WP:GNG is the right guideline to apply to this publication or its analogues in other countries. Rather, I'd suggest that WP:NPERIODICAL—yes, just an essay, but I find it convincing—is the right guideline. Government gazettes—a non-Commonwealth example is the Federal Register—are the official reports of legislation and regulations, so they are continually use[d] as a citation in academic or scholarly works and in other government documents. Any law journal, for instance, will cite official reports of legislation or regulations. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 02:02, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Gazettes are important part of the workings of Australian governments. All other states have articles. Some diversity of sourcing would be useful.--Grahame (talk) 02:18, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep: Nomination withdrawn per strong Keep consensus. Thank you.  // Timothy ::  talk  02:55, 10 August 2020 (UTC)


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