Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road & Track Ten Best

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 GRBerry 03:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Road & Track Ten Best

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Is this a copyright violation? I'm not sure what warrants a copyvio, so I'll leave it for the public to decide. Either way, the article is very unfinished and may want a tag on it. Apparently Template:unfinished doesn't really exist in its own right Montchav 23:32, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

• Articles of this type -- magazine lists whether automotive, movie, or whatever -- don't generally survive AfD unless a closing admin lets WP:ILIKEIT volume override WP copyright policy and the WP:V requirement for multiple non-trivial coverage by independent reliable sources. Road & Track's ten-best awards are probably a bit less notable than Car and Driver's 10 Best or Motor Trend's Car of the Year; although they're used in carmaker ads, and R&T's press release gets a few newspaper articles each year, they aren't highly notable in general. Delete or redirect to Road & Track. Barno 18:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• I should clarify: Articles on one particular year's list generally get deleted, while articles on the awards may be kept or deleted based on whether there are independent sources. Time magazine's "Person of the Year" is an example where national magazines and newspapers not part of AOL Time Warner have discussed the award and its implications at length. Barno 18:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. (a) We're not a bunch of lists; (b) this is presumably a copyright violation anyway, as the publisher will surely have copyrighted the lists. WMMartin 17:16, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

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