Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The New York Times

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 of the debate was Speedy keep. Bad faith nomination WP:POINT. Ezeu 22:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The New York Times

Anti-notable. This AFD is being placed because the NYT is anti-notable, namely, that anyone mentioned in its pages, despite its preeminence, popularity, and market penetration, is instantly cast into non-notability. The precedent for this is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Bambenek (2nd nomination) and Wikipedia:Deletion review#John Bambenek where the subject was deleted because he was in the New York Times on the front page and that made him non-notable. It is time that the NYT come off the pages of wikipedia like the blackhole of notability it is. -- Alpha269 22:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Keep. Very funny. Batmanand | Talk 22:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep You're joking, right? dcandeto 22:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
  • No, not joking. If being a front-page resource for the NYT makes one unnotable, this paper is not notable. -- Alpha269 22:10, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
    • So presumably by your logic, being a citizen of the UK does not make me notable, and so the UK itself is not notable? Batmanand | Talk 22:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
      • Does the UK list you prominently anywhere? Does it use you as a prominent resource in notable government work? -- Alpha269 22:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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