Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Newsletters

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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. Sr13 09:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of Newsletters

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Delete as not a suitable subject for a Wikipedia article. The list could go on forever — what is the standard for inclusion? At least in List of newspapers there is an assumed notability in that a newspaper takes quite a bit of funding and effort to put together every week, and (presumably) is representative of its community. Can we say the same about just anything that calls itself a "newsletter"? ... discospinster talk 20:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete unless some suitable criteria can be established for inclusion in this list. HeirloomGardener 20:58, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment LPagliaro 21:00, 24 May 2007 (UTC)What I am ultimately trying to accomplish is created a separate wikipedia site for each of the newsletters and have them all linked on the "List of Newsletters" site. This is exactly what is done for the newspapers. The list of newspapers can go on forever as well but that is not tagged for deletion. I'm not sure why there can't be a list of newsletters. What is the difference? Other newsletters can go in and add their titles as well (as long as they are notable). Isn't that the point? In addition, I plan on creating separate wikipedia pages for all of these newsletters. You guys tagged this too soon. You didn't give me a chance. These are all notable companies that are well known in the industry. They are owned by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC and that is noted on the page. It is even linked to the Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC wikipedia site.
  • Speedy Delete WP:CSD#A3 and WP:NOT#DIR--Whsitchy 22:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Advice I think you would do best to continue with the existing Euromoney Institutional Investor PL, which can accommodate them all. There is no way they will individually be thought important enough for an article, and it is not clear what makes them distinctive as a group from the many other publications also listed there.

Note Please keep the title available for a real list of newsletters if we ever do one--though even here the term has various meanings. DGG 02:13, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


  • Comment LPagliaro Can someone please tell me what the problem is exactly so I can fix it? I am trying to mimic the List of Newspapers site but apparently that's not okay. Please clarify. Thank you.
  • Comment I think the term "newsletter" is too wide of a category by itself, and ends up under WP:NOT#DIR. For example, many churches send out newsletters. Should those be included? What about newsletters from various clubs, etc.? Even "notable" newsletters end up being very loosely related. A financial newsletter has nothing in common with a newsletter on model railroading, for example. (Personally, I'm not sure that lists of newspapers or lists of magazines should be included in Wikipedia, either, but their existence or non-existence is largely irrelevant to this discussion.) HeirloomGardener 14:57, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete newsletter is too wide a category. JJL 03:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - This is much too wide a category and cannot be allowed to survive. Almost every academic society that I can think of has a 'newsletter' to contain ephemeral information to members. Similarly every stockbroker's tipsheet could be called a newsletter. Circular prayer letters from missionaries are similarly newsletters. If this list is allowed to survive it will attract long lists of different kinds of newsletter, and will become an utter muddle. Alternatively the article needs a title that defines its subject matter much more tightly. Peterkingiron 22:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as far to vague a list, which the author appears to be turning into a linkfarm at the moment. Nuttah68 14:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
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