Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nepal Magazine

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) GeoffreyT2000 (talk, contribs) 23:43, 4 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't find any indication of notability for this. While five references are cited as of this writing, that doesn't seem to mean much here. The first doesn't seem terribly reliable, and regardless mentions it only in passing. The second is a source written by the magazine's publisher, therefore not independent, and is clearly promotional. The third is an article about the publisher, not the magazine, and gives a very brief passing mention about it (less than a sentence), just noting that someone was once an editor of it. The fourth also doesn't seem particularly reliable, and also isn't about the magazine, it just copies some ranking tables from it. The fifth actually is about it, but is a blog, and even if it were a reliable reference, one isn't enough. I can't find any better referencing by searching, so I believe that there doesn't exist sufficient reference material to sustain an article on this subject. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 08:24, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep I have updated some references there.You can add stub template rather than deleting the complete page up there.Regarding the notability,Since it has circulation 45,000 I think it has notability enough to be included in Wikipedia. AmRit GhiMire "Ranjit" 08:28, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding your reference issue, the first was given to indicate that Vijay Kumar Pandey is founder editor of the magazine.Second source is for the information of its foundation and its publishing article only even though it is from publisher itself.Third is to provide the information about the editors of magazine.So magazine is not discussed there. Fourth is to indicate that the magazine publishes ranking table since that is much awaited in Nepal. AmRit GhiMire "Ranjit" 08:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. Looking at Wikipedia:Notability_(media)#Newspapers.2C_magazines_and_journals, which is the guideline we should be consulting, I wonder if this may meet "#5 are significant publications in ethnic and other non-trivial niche markets". If you reply here, please ping me back. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 08:42, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks it meets that criteria obviously since it is significant publications here in Nepal. AmRit GhiMire "Ranjit" 09:13, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• If this is kept the article should be moved to Nepal (magazine) as the name of the publication appears to be "Nepal" rather than "Nepal Magazine". Of course that makes searching for sources very difficult. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 13:16, 26 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete its been csd'd before, for the same reason, and apparently the idea that the magazine isn't there yet hasn't sunk in. I'd be incline to recommend salting as well, but that's me. TomStar81 (Talk) 02:13, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It was deleted for WP:Advert before but it is totally rewritten and so i dont think there is necessity to delete it. AmRit GhiMire "Ranjit" 03:26, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Of course it's going to be difficult for us anglophones to find sources for a magazine that shares its name with a country and is not written in the Roman alphabet, but this academic source describes this magazine as "a leading Nepali-language news magazine", and I don't see any reason to dispute that judgement. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 19:01, 28 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nepal-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:16, 29 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep as magazines and newspapers in India and specially in Nepal don't have wide online coverage. Riferbare (talk) 19:37, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment: The magazine has been widely cited among mainstream English dailies in Nepal such as these: [1], [2], [3], [4] etc. Riferbare (talk) 19:42, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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