Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whalesong

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 Merge/Redirect. Notability not established here. Info can be found at the University article. Establishing redirect to whale song as it seems a more likely query. the_undertow ^talk 00:31, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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Insufficiently notable student newspaper which has not been the subject of coverage by reliable, third-party published sources. Contested PROD, so comes here for community consensus. — Satori Son 00:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, as nominator. — Satori Son 00:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. Some random student newspaper does not need to be included. Captain panda 03:28, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Student newspapers are worthy. There are newspapers with circulation much less than 1,000 that have their own Wikipedia articles. Jarfingle 07:34, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

• In that case, unless they have any particular notability, they should all be deleted or merged as well. ELIMINATORJR 15:38, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

• Merge NN student newspaper to University of Alaska, then restore redirect to whale song, which is probably what 99% of searchers want to find. At whalesong there can be a hatnote to the U of Alaska article. If sourced and kept, article should be moved to Whalesong (newspaper). --Dhartung | Talk 07:47, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with University of Alaska Southeast where the newspaper is already metioned. Student newspapers are OK to cover, but splitting off one element (the newspaper) from an article which is already a short stub (University of Alaska Southeast) does little to aid the readability of the information. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:25, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to main article and restore redirect to Whalesong per Dhartung, unless any particular claim to notability can be unearthed. ELIMINATORJR 15:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I looked for coverage. This: http://media.www.thenorthernlight.org/media/storage/paper960/news/2001/02/20/Features/Campus.Media.Chronicles-2540845.shtml is in depth coverage, but not really unrelated, it's by another U of A system newspaper. This http://homepage.mac.com/chrisolds/PORT/feinerman.html is unrelated coverage, but not really in depth, and it's by another university's student paper. I can't decide, but decided to present the links as more evidence. If it's kept, they should probably be added to the article. --AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 17:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge per Dhartung. That's what we generally do with student newspapers, they have no real notability outside their home college, as a rule. Guy (Help!) 19:00, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Keep It's expandable, not to mention a good little newspaper. At the very least, I suppose it could be merged into the UAS article, but I'd prefer to see it kept. I'm going to be on staff next semester- I'm sure I'll have lots to write about it. :) L'Aquatique ^talktome 07:24, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to University of Alaska or University of Alaska Southeast, and restore redirect to Whale song as explained above, that is a much more likely search result for someone using this term in the search box. School papers are not automatically notable, and no reliable, third-party sources are given to establish it is anything other than a thousand other school papers. Both sources above (http://media.www.thenorthernlight.org, and http://homepage.mac.com/chrisolds/PORT/feinerman.html) are also school publications, which doesn't automatically demonstrate notability. Ariel♥Gold 23:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge content to main article and Redirect to whale song per everyone else. No more bongos 20:55, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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