Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Positive Vibrations

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete Ryan Postlethwaite 15:41, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Positive Vibrations

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A bit of a funny one, this — I'm the creator & sole editor of it so could G7 it, but bringing it over just in case anyone sees any good reason to keep it. I created this incomplete & unreferenced stub a couple of months ago as part of a now-abandoned-for-the-foreseeable-future article on journalist & author Barb Lien-Cooper (then just plain Barb Lien), to fill in her back story, as I believe it was the first regular magazine she wrote for; however, having abandoned that article it kicks out the main reason for keeping this one, and noone else seems in any hurry to create an article for her. It's obviously a real magazine (although I think it possibly slips into the wrong side of the big fanzine/small magazine divide); however, pretty much all the significant links are redlinks, and aside from Lien (and possibly Vicky October & Pete Dooley) are never likely to warrant their own articles; I can't see enough people being interested in it without the other articles to act as feeders; it's a orphaned page at present; and the accompanying image has been deleted from Commons (to my extreme annoyance, as I went to the trouble of tracking down the artist & getting consent, but Who Am I To Argue). Can anyone suggest a reason to keep it? — iridescenti (talk to me!) 00:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment - An AfD has never made me choke on my Cup Noodles. Referring to your own work as 'incomplete and unreferenced' is simply awesome. the_undertow talk 01:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment It wouldn't be particularly hard to source - all it would take would be for me to search through Record Collector & Bucketfull of Brains back issues to find their assorted mentions of it, as they both had a bit of a love affair with PVs & regularly wrote about it; however, since neither has their back issues online & I'm not wildly keen to spend two hours in a copyright library wading through fifteen-year-old magazines, I left it for someone who actually has a stack of back issues in their basement to do the searching. Likewise, I could expand the article easily enough, but for a subject of such low interest there doesn't seem a great deal of point. If anyone actually does write Barb Lien-Cooper (who, with a very odd career ranging from music journalist to winner of Online Comic of the Year in 2004 undoubdetedly does warrant her own article; I only gave up as I could find so little about the woman herself as opposed to her work) I'd probably recreate this in a better form — iridescenti (talk to me!) 12:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as nominated. I could see an argument for keeping if the magazine ever had a real public profile, but it seems it had a pretty limited distribution and audience. --Dhartung | Talk 03:26, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete a fanzine that only ran for 5 issues?! Not even close. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 03:55, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Interesting nom... Delete this, and use the title as a redirect to Underwater Moonlight. Grutness...wha? 06:37, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as it stands now. However, if the Record Collector award was properly cited, this title might be halfway toward notability. I am unable to find anything to fill the other half, but I am not closed to the possiblity that another editor with more research experience in the field might convince me otherwise. Serpent's Choice 11:12, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. My opinion is similar to the above. —A • D Torque 12:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge I would put the information about this magazine into Robyn Hitchcock since it started as a fanzine and continued to be largely devoted to him. Maybe if it acquired more expansion in the future it could be moved back to its own article. If its kept it should surely be linked to from Robin Hithcock as a fanzine. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aspenocean (talk • contribs) 09:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC).
  • Merge with Bob Marley I'd strongly suggest. "Positive vibrations" shouldn't go down the drain or to trashing machine. greg park avenue 19:09, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
  • keep - Robyn Hitchcock is notable, the zine won an award, therefore the zine is notable. I'd hate to see a good stublike article on a good zine disappear. As for it being incomplete and unreferenced - that's what new users are for, to add to existing stubs on notable but incredibly specialized topics. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 22:18, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete As per nom I agree that this magazine doesn't warrant an article by itself, but the page on said journalist should ever be written then this article should be recreated as a redirect to her. A1octopus 12:09, 14 May 2007 (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.