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News media

Sharif Mohamed

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This article barely meets WP:GNG it only has 1-2 reliable sources, which isn't enough to prove the subject's importance. The topic doesn't seem to have played any major role, and many of the links are dead. Without more reliable, third-party coverage, this article may not belong on Wikipedia. 𝒮-𝒜𝓊𝓇𝒶 18:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

delete fails WP:NPOL. --hroest 18:17, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Paula Kruger

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Fails WP:JOURNALIST. Pizza on Pineapple (Let's eat🍕) 05:59, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi - I'm curious to know why you don't think this person is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia- they have decades worth of relevant experience and engagement in the Australian industry and are now head of the Media Diversity Australia ARealWorm (talk) 06:33, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
not meeting notability due to a lack of independent sourcing Oaktree b (talk) 14:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Source 5 is the only independent sourcing about this person. I don't find any other articles that could be used for sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 14:25, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak delete. I think it's close. I agree that source 5 is the best source, and it's an article largely focused on the subject that was published in one of Australia's newspapers of record. But source 4 is also independent, significant coverage in a very reputable newspaper. I think you could easily make the case that those two sources are sufficient to meet WP:GNG. But both are very similar routine staffing announcements (one says she is joining ABC Radio Canberra, the other says she is now leaving), and feature a very high volume of quotes. I could be persuaded otherwise, but I don't think I really see the necessary depth in those two sources to demonstrate notability. MCE89 (talk) 15:13, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ARV Loshan Sports

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A duplicate exists at Draft:ARV Loshan Sports already. I can't find any independent, reliable sources discussing ARV Loshan Sports and the article creator appears to have a strong COI. The YouTube channel has a reasonable subscriber count but it needs significant coverage from independent sources to be considered notable enough for Wikipedia. No evidence of a WP:GNG pass. I've reviewed the newly added references and none of them demonstrate notability. The 'example.com' reference doesn't even work. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 16:31, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Journalism, News media, Sports, Internet, and Sri Lanka. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 16:32, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - the Tamil Media Weekly source doesn't work for me. It tries to take me to arvloshan.com, which doesn't exist as a domain. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 16:46, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – ARV Loshan Sports is a notable Tamil-language sports media platform, widely followed in the Tamil-speaking community, especially among Sri Lankan and Indian sports fans. It has been operating for over 5 years, and its founder Ragupathy Vaamalosanan is a veteran media personality with more than 30 years in radio broadcasting. The platform is regularly cited in independent sports news reports and has gained recognition through social media and regional media outlets.
    I have added reliable sources to the article, including coverage in facebook and instagram mostly youtube. The subject passes Wikipedia's General Notability Guidelines due to significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Niroshanraja (talk) 18:17, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are not independent sources. They are user-generated content. If you can provide reliable news sources discussing ARV Loshan Sports in detail then I'll reconsider. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 21:26, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, fails WP:GNG - social media channels, such as Facebook and YouTube, are not considered reliable sources. The Tamil news link is broken, so can't be considered, and the ARV Loshan Sports website is a primary source (not independent) if the link was working. Dan arndt (talk) 01:57, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment: I left a COI alert on User talk:Niroshanraja, the editor who created this article. Several editors have mentioned that concern (as do I). DMacks (talk) 12:07, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Blatantly AI-generated. According to the article,as of [date], there is limited coverage in mainstream or national media, which affects its notability under Wikipedia guidelines. This seems like a fair assessment. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 19:17, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Incredible. In all of my years here this has to be the first time that I've seen an article actually state its own lack of notability! Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 20:21, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete: Even the article says its not notable. So.... -UtoD 10:23, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not speedy Even though the article's creator and main content-contributor seem to state it is not notable, please let this stand as a regular AFD (no prejudice against SNOW). Too many attempts, page-moves, and COI problems to let a future recreation simply slip past unimpeded. DMacks (talk) 14:08, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Fails GNG. Battleofalma (talk)
  • Delete: I checked to see if sufficient sources existed that an article could be written about this subject, properly and without the use of an LLM, but I'm not seeing anything at all that would be helpful. The AI's evaluation of itself is correct here. Perhaps someday this will be notable, but certainly not right now. CoffeeCrumbs (talk) 15:47, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ranald Leask

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We're not Linkedin and I can't find sigcov. JayCubby 00:46, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Esteghlal Javan

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Defunct newspaper that fails WP:GNG. WhoIsCentreLeft (talk) 10:36, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PurpleDOG Post Production

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Not finding enough sources to meet WP:GNG/WP:ORG. All of the sources listed in the article fail in significant coverage. Additionally, an internet search did not turn up anything else of note. Maybe a Canadian film editor knows of more sources? JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 03:50, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trackloaded

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Non-notable website. Fails NCORP or the GNG. Best, Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 13:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep – Trackloaded meets the General Notability Guideline (GNG) through significant coverage in independent, reliable sources:
    • Mentioned in Pulse Nigeria, referencing its lyrics/media section
    • Cited by Legit.ng in entertainment industry commentary
    • Awarded "Best Entertainment News Media Platform" by MEA Markets in 2024
    • Recognized as "Best Entertainment & Media Platform – West Africa" at Innovation in Business Awards 2024
    • Reached 4.4 million listeners on Audiomack, indicating real-world cultural and public impact

The article is neutrally written and sourced to meet the notability criteria under both GNG and NCORP for media-related topics. It documents a notable Nigerian digital platform with verified third-party recognition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oloyede2003 (talk • contribs) 14:03, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Websites and Nigeria. Reading Beans, Duke of Rivia 13:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Steppin' Out (magazine)

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Non-notable magazine that is apparently out of publication. Unable to find any sources discussing it. The single source that was standing to the article is to a website that was removed or otherwise blacklisted from archive.org, which is a red flag. Further, about the only thing I found on this publication indicates that its last article was published about four years ago. Probably fails other specific notability guidelines, but it's a clear WP:GNG fail. —C.Fred (talk) 17:49, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Totally agree. Delete 162.213.23.84 (talk) 23:27, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It should be deleted but there was no need for that stuff on my Talk page. I didn't have any rude attitude towards editors at all. I did nothing wrong and was removing unsourced crap from that page. I was totally in the right dude. 162.213.23.84 (talk) 23:30, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I stumbled on this while doing spam cleanup (the home page has been usurped by the infamous WP:JUDI gang). Looking at the Wayback Machine, the site has been around for about 20 years. That's a long time. Surely there would be coverage about it somewhere, to write an article with. Today is AfD Day 7 (doomsday). Encourage anyone who has the time to really check around for sources. -- GreenC 15:21, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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The Ark (newspaper)

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Non-notable newspaper, does not pass WP:NCORP. Sources are either WP:PRIMARY or local in scope, a WP:BEFORE search reveals no significant coverage of note. Author has a WP:COI and likely undisclosed WP:PAID interest. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 03:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Apologies that I’m relatively new at this. I attempted to disclose my conflict that I’m the co-owner and editor of this newspaper. I was not paid by anyone to create this page; I did it in my free time on a weekend. The list of California papers ([[List of newspapers in California#Daily newspapers]]) is full of dozens of other weeklies with nothing exceptionally notable about them at all, and with circulation the same or smaller than ours. We’ve been named the best small newspaper in America several times by the National Newspaper Association (National Newspaper Association and California News Publishers Association (California News Publishers Association), which seems more significantly notable than than other non-daily newspapers with non-deleted wikis, eg the Salinas Valley TribuneSalinas Valley Tribune — with all due respect to my colleagues there! Thanks for your consideration and happy to answer any questions. Kzhessel (talk) 05:47, 20 April 2025 (UTC) — Note to closing admin: Kzhessel (talk • contribs) is the creator of the page that is the subject of this XfD. [reply]
The suggestions that newspapers qualify under the criteria for "corporations and organizations" is fairly absurd. Yes it's a product but so are films, video games, books, which we have our own guidelines for, or any other kind of media, which we do not - clearly NCORP is not meant to cover "literally any piece of media", because that is absurd and counter to the spirit of notability. Better to go by WP:GNG or the suggestions at WP:NMEDIA... under which this does not pass, if the sourcing is all there is. This page does have no independent sources at the moment and needs to be largely trimmed. If this is all there is I would lean delete but if there is more coverage from outside sources (as the award would indicate there probably is) I would be more sympathetic. This seems like a relatively significant local paper. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:05, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's an ongoing RfC about making Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Notability an SNG, so I would look to that for guidance. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:14, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've added some more citations. I'm not sure what kind of additional citations are needed though -- individual papers are typically the source of news, not the discussion of news. When they're not national newspapers and they get written about by other media, it's usually because something very bad happened, eg, the 5,000 circulaton Manteca Bulletin has plagiarism allegations. (Disclosure, I'm the page creator and co-owner/editor of this paper.) Kzhessel (talk) 01:38, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW we do have other newspapers citing us as the source of original/breaking news, eg, https://sfstandard.com/2024/09/05/tiburon-ridge-nearly-doubles-open-space-size/ ; https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ex-boyfriend-guilty-of-attempted-murder-in-12559393.php ; https://www.marinij.com/2018/09/18/michael-mina-to-open-first-marin-restaurant-in-tiburon/ -- but we have no reason to include it in the wiki. I have included some other outside sources for citation though. (Disclosure, I'm the page creator and co-owner/editor of this paper.) Kzhessel (talk) 02:33, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete- although I could argue that being a significant local newspaper is notable in some cases, but I do not find this one passing WP:GNG. ロドリゲス恭子 (talk) 01:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
While I can appreciate that, I'm having difficulty with both the criteria and the notion that this newspaper would be deleted when other non-daily California papers smaller and/or less significant than ours remain, some of which also have substantial wikis: Daily Democrat, Whittier Daily News, Idyllwild Town Crier, Sonoma Valley Sun, Placerville Mountain Democrat, Paso Robles Press, Half Moon Bay Review, Palisadian-Post, Monterey County Weekly, The Mendocino Beacon, Madera Tribune, Larchmont Chronicle, Lompoc Record, Hollister Free Lance, The Healdsburg Tribune, Selma Enterprise, North County News Tribune, Del Norte Triplicate, Hellenic Journal, Inyo Register, Atascadero News.
(Disclosure: I'm the page author and owner-editor of the paper under discussion.) Kzhessel (talk) 01:47, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Found some sigcov in this university press book [1], but it's entirely about how the newspaper got its name. There's also something here [2] that is sigcov from the google books preview, not that it shows it to you. Finding sources for newspapers is hard, they seem to be cited a decent amount. PARAKANYAA (talk) 18:59, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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