Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blogging Tories (2nd nomination)

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 keep. Yuser31415 02:03, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blogging Tories

Blogging Tories (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

• First AfD
• DRV

Alexa rank of 366,181. Article fails WP:WEB. Lots of Google hits, but I could not find any non-trivial coverage in verifiable and reliable sources. Previous keep arguments slanted toward WP:ILIKEIT rather than focusing on verifiability issues. Should be deleted. RWR8189 23:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep as in the earlier AFD/VFDs. Bucketsofg 00:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment This article appears to have some merit. It could also benefit from improvements. I have noted that the editors of this article have not received notice of the AfD. User:Jayden54Bot provides notice for article 4 weeks old or less. Of course, if anything articles of greater duration, with multiple editors deserve greater process. I will manually provide notice to all editors of this article with the following neutral notice: "You have edited the article Blogging Tories. This article is currently being considered for deletion under the wp:afd process. You may contribute to this discussion by commenting here. Thank you." Edivorce 01:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. We've been through this before. The Blogging Tories have been mentioned on national newscasts [[1]], press reports [[2]], and were at the center of a debate on how the Canadian blogosphere fits with Canada's election financing laws [[3]]. (As a side note, those last two links are full of crap, but anyway...)
  I should also note that those Alexa rankings are suspect, because the Blogging Tories entry is not about www.bloggingtories.ca, it's about all 300 sites that comprise the group. If we wanted to accurately reflect this entry's Alexa ranking, we'd have to combine the ratings of all the member blogs.
  --The Invisible Hand 13:46, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment For what it's worth, Progressive Bloggers, which is seen as the opposite number of Blogging Tories, has just been deleted. Watchsmart 00:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Cites provided by IH above seem sufficiently persistent, verifiable, and reliable. Notability seems beyond question. Political Bloggs that have significant impact and are clearly notable seem to have difficultly generating cites outside of "Blogosphere". I think PB suffered from that, despite "delete" lacking even a super-majority. I hope it is brought up for DRV. Edivorce 21:11, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

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