Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of zines

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was no consensus (so keep). CDC (talk) 8 July 2005 00:11 (UTC)

[edit] List of zines

the relevance of this list is in question, as links on the zine page to much more expansive online databases of the Independent Publishing Resource Center and the (not online yet) Zine Archive and Publishing Project seem more appropriate. i originally created this page (sorry!) Marc Mywords 23:47, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC) .... RESPONSE to 23skidoo: i forgot to mention that I also created a category for zines, and felt this was more appropriate Marc Mywords 17:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ... if people feel that the category isn't as specific as the list is (listing generes like comics, women, etc.) then sub-categories for these genres can be created Marc Mywords 18:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC) ... RESPONSE to FYCTravis: the List of notable zines could be incorporated into the zine article. Marc Mywords 18:30, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Keep. I'm not sure if the nominator/page creator is planning to replace this list with something else (I'm not quite sure what is implied above), but I see no problem with this list especially since there appear to be quite a few articles on the zines in question. Alternately I would support this being changed into a category. 23skidoo 01:06, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete and make into category. This sort of list is just too open to abuse as anyone adds whatever the zine they publish (and even in my small group of friends I know a few; there are thousands worldwide). That being said I think zines, being ink, are generally more notable than blogs, which do not exist in physical form and which any fool can (and does) start on a whim. I guess blogs have more reach though. -R. fiend 01:34, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, neither categories nor offline sources are a suitable replacement for wikipedia lists. Kappa 07:20, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unmaintainable list. JamesBurns 07:21, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — lists have additional information that categories do not, including names that do not have full articles. It'll always be a partial list, but in this case I don't see that as an issue, so to speak. — RJH 14:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Completely unmaintainable list that will inevitably be edited to include zillions of extremely non-notable "omg I got a Xerox machine here's my zine" entries. Would support a List of notable zines which includes only publications which have gained some sort of recognition beyond five people in a college dorm. --FCYTravis 19:16, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and merge to category. Zines that don't have full articles are not notable/verifiable enough to be listed anyway. — Phil Welch 03:40, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Unmaintainable list. Jayjg ^(talk) 21:24, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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