Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Dartmouth Beacon

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 delete. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 08:39, Dec. 26, 2005

[edit] The Dartmouth Beacon

non-notable, advertisement AaronS 21:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. At first, I just edited out the boosterism in this article that borderlined on being spam advertising.. Not only is it a stub (which isn't in and of itself enough to merit deletion, but I can't imagine what else could be said about this relatively non-notable, non-controversial student publication), but I don't think that it would be a good idea to have an article for every small student publication at every college in the world. It's just not encyclopaedic. And, unlike The Dartmouth Review, the Beacon has no national presence. It barely has campus presence. --AaronS 21:00, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Same reasons as AaronS. This a student publication formed last year and is not significant. Luckynumbernine
• Delete I double checked because the well known Dartmouth Review isn't the primary student newspaper on campus. That's The Dartmouth, founded in 1799. The Dartmouth Beacon lists its first issue as October 2004: just another NN student newspaper. Durova 21:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment While the Review is not the official newspaper of Dartmouth, it is significantly more well known than The Dartmouth
  • Comment The point of my explanation is to state that Dartmouth has two encyclopedic student newspapers. This isn't either of them. Durova 15:33, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete NN. Been around for two years. The article isn't even factually correct/honest, as it has been "founded" two or three times in the past. --152.163.100.67 21:50, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete A little more than 200 Google hits, many of them from a website or two existing to make fun of the paper. Just looking at the history, this page was created as a tribute gag to the current editors. TheDakPAC 23:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment There are a number of dartmouth publications. The dartmouth beacon is one of them. Of course apponents to the magazine's conservative message will object to it's presence on wikipedia, but it is a legitimate magazine at Dartmouth and popularly read and thus a legitimate article on wikipedia. Just like any other political magazine - the review, the jack o lantern, etc.

Response Nobody cares about its message, whatever it may be. The Dartmouth Review is an older and more prominent conservative publication, and everybody here supports its article on Wikipedia. The Dartmouth Beacon is a new publication that has little presence at Dartmouth, let alone outside of Dartmouth. The Review has been around for 25 years and has a national presence; The Jack 'O Lantern has been around for nearly a century and has alumni like Dr. Suess. The Beacon does not compare to either. Wikipedia cannot include every minor college publication on Earth. The fact that the Beacon is at an Ivy League college makes no difference. "Apponents" don't care about its conservative message. They care that it is non-notable and unencyclopaedic. --AaronS 17:53, 19 December 2005 (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.