Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anti-Hit List

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 NO CONSENSUS. -Splash^talk 00:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Hit List[edit]

Some guy's newspaper column, probably not very popular. To be quite honest, I don't think it matters how many people read this or listen to the podcast-- it has zero influence on anything and thus cannot ever be notable. Ashibaka (tock) 13:35, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. PJM 13:59, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Non-notable spam. Try WikiDirectory instead. --StuffOfInterest 14:52, 1 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
No, it's quite popular, especially in Canada. It's also quite a big deal to be on it too.Undercooked Sausage (tock) 03:35, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, if anybody is interested...this is the hit list being referred to: Hit List. Oh, Tarzan Dan, you were so funny when I was fourteen. --maclean25 04:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep -- It's a well-known, major newspaper column. I'm curious how the nominator knows that "it has zero influence on anything", especially since (s)he only speculates that it's "probably not very popular". Skeezix1000 19:31, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I've lived in Toronto for the past 20 years and I've never heard of this. What part of Canada is it exactly popular? --supers 14:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmmm. You've never read CANOE, eye weekly, the Toronto Sun or the Toronto Star, apparently. Bearcat 19:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Publications don't compete for the right to publish columns that aren't popular or influential. This one, however, has been the focus of a bidding war between two competing media organizations. So you've got two choices: either you're wrong about its notability, or Torstar secretly has a policy of paying big money to poach unimportant journalists from its competitors just for shits and giggles, and of building its primary venture into webmedia around a journalist nobody's ever heard of. But considering that the Toronto Star is the single most widely read newspaper in all of Canada, any notion that they don't know exactly what they're doing flies right out the window. Which leaves us, therefore, with you're wrong about its notability. Keep. Oh, and for what it's worth, I created this article, so it ain't vanity spam — I'm not John Sakamoto, and I'm not known around here as a person who creates new articles based on an overly generous standard of notability, either. Bearcat 19:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. -Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 06:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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.