Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prairie Dog

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, then redirect. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 13:34, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prairie Dog

Small None notable newspaper. All google hits for Prairie Dog newspaper are Wikipedia mirrors and articles about the rodent. External Link site doesn't work. So the newspaper must not exist anymore. Vanity--M8v2 01:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 13:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete redirect to prairie dog and I dunno, put the paper information into the article on Regina. Mister.Manticore 13:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment A search for "Regina Prairie Dog"[1] finds mentions in everything from the Regina Downtown Association's website to the Bob the Angry Flower website. It would be preferable if somebody actually living in Regina could confirm whether the newspaper has gone under or not, and if not to expand the article. It is/was the Regina equivalent of the Chicago Reader, but it never had a 'real' web presence per se. (BTW it was a magazine, not a newspaper.) --Charlene.fic 14:40, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Prairie dog.--Isotope23 17:00, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment obviously not notable...did not provide "published market share charts or licensing documentation" to establish notability within the target market. The link in the article does not work, either (at least not for me).—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mnyakko (talk • contribs).

• Comment I'm Stephen Whitworth, the editor of prairie dog magazine and we do indeed still publish, biweekly, as of Oct. 2006. We're an alternative (bi-) weekly and similar to, though obviously smaller than, publications such as Halifax's the Coast, Toronto's NOW, Seattle's The Stranger, etc. Copies of current issues can be mailed to anyone requiring verification of our existence. We may not be a daily newspaper but we definitely have a strong profile in this community (we launched in 1993) and likely do deserve a Wikipedia entry. Someone else ought to write it, obviously. We hope to launch a Web site within the next year. Thanks.
  • CommentYou say your newspaper is smaller then several other newspapers that have small entrys and in themselves somewhat none notable. Age is not a factor when deciding who or what deserves a article. Also even if you have a strong profile in your community doesn't mean the newspaper is of national or global importance. If that was the case every towns small newspapers would get their article. One last thing. By adding your comment you also prove the articles is of Vanity.--M8v2 21:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The Prairie Dog is NOT obscure. It is in fact Regina's main "culture" newspaper, absolutely ubiquitous among the large university/youth/lefty/artsy crowd in the city, and well-known among pretty much everyone else, particularly for its restaurant reviews. It certainly has a strong presence in the city. Distribution/subscription figures are kind of hard to come by given the fact that it's a free newspaper. And "national/global importance" is NOT a criteria for a newspaper having an article. Regina's other major newspaper, the Leader-Post certainly doesn't fit that criteria and I don't see an AfD for it. Hiddekel 15:44, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I do however think that the article's content should be moved to "Prairie Dog (Newspaper)". Hiddekel 15:51, 26 October 2006 (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.