Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bexley News

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The result was Redirected, editors are encouraged to merge as appropriate. Pastordavid (talk) 20:08, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bexley News

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Non notable newspaper, no reliable sources cited. Prod was removed with a sarcastic comment by an IP. J Milburn (talk) 19:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• Comment. A quick Google search indicates that the Bexley News won a Suburban News Awards honorable mention. I need to verify it against independent sources. Beyond that, this looks like a case of a newbie taking a deletion tag personally. If the editor can get the point about WP:RS, this article might be salvageable. • Gene93k (talk) 19:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • That's only an internal award- Suburban News owns the paper. I don't think we can take that as an indication of notability. J Milburn (talk) 19:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Actually, Bexley News is owned by American Community Newspapers, not SNA. SNA is the trade group which used judges from the American Press Institute. • Gene93k (talk) 20:04, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
      • That's not what the article says... J Milburn (talk) 20:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
• Merge to Bexley, Ohio which, as the article says, is a small town and "nothing goes on there". It's in the same county as Columbus, O., and I doubt this is much more than a classified advertising vehicle dressed up as a "suburban newspaper". Mandsford (talk) 21:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete, it's the Bexley edition of a suburban regional newspaper.[1] The whole thing could have an article but the paper itself is not sufficiently notable. A good portion of the web hits are to a paper in England and many others are simply unrelated. --Dhartung | Talk 22:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

• Keep or merge to Bexley, Ohio. Is only a stub anyway which would slot into a local media section of the parent article. Many well-developed articles on suburbs will have media sections. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:29, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Merge as suggested. Bearian (talk) 16:22, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, every small town has a newspaper, their non-notability is actually parodied by the Springfield Shopper. Blast Ulna (talk) 17:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.