The result was delete. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 20:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Non notable comic. Another user contested speedy on the grounds that independent publication constitutes notability. However, google searching revealed the mentioned newspaper Concrete be a student publication at a college. I do not believe student publications constitute any proof of notability. Someguy1221 03:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Who draws the arbitrary line between which publications are notable, and which ones aren't? If the publication is independent, that should fulfill the criteria for notability, regardless of personal opinion as to whether the quality of the publication is 'good' or 'bad' or how discriminately they accept certain additions. The criteria for notability should not depend on the subjective opinions of certain administrators. It is not sufficient to simply "believe" the publication unnotable, and to do so is to ladel out subjective opinion as god-given law. It fits the clause in the notability criteria demanding at least one independent secondary source (while multiple sources are preferable, they are not necessarily demanded, though they can be found on numerous profile pages in web databases such as 'stumbleupon', which should constitue an "independent secondary source"). Please leave personal opinion aside, and demonstrate the comic, or the publication's lack of notability objectively. After all, it seems to follow that if a university newspaper such as The Martlet is 'notable' enough to warrant a wiki entry, then any other university paper is 'notable' enough as an independent secondary source, and therefore the criteria for notability has been fulfilled.
Hectorlowe 16:57, 12 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Why is Concrete considered neither reliable nor notable as a source (due to its being a university paper,) when another university paper, The Martlet, has its own wikipedia entry, which presupposes some level of reliability and notability for university papers?
Hectorlowe 18:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]