Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barstool Sports (3rd nomination)

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The result was keep. j⚛e decker ^talk 16:06, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Barstool Sports[edit]

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Non-notable website lacking non-trivial support. reddogsix (talk) 23:59, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Nearly all of the cited references seem to provide considerable non-trivial coverage of the subject in independent published reliable sources. Perhaps it's not sufficient coverage to establish notability, but I strongly disagree with the nominator that it doesn't exist. While the lede introduces the subject as being about the blog alone, I am conflating the company, its blog, and its non-blog activities as a single subject; some coverage is about the company's parties more than the blog. ––Agyle (talk) 01:16, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm undecided but there is a bit of coverage for the site. It's all coverage about the guys being asses, but it is coverage in reliable sources. What we need to decide is whether this shows a depth of coverage, since a lot of it is based predominantly in the Boston area. I'm leaning towards a keep offhand, but this will probably need some cleaning to make it flow a bit more. I'll see what I can do. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 11:29, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've cleaned the article. Some portions of it seemed a little WP:POINT-y, but in which direction I can't honestly say. It kind of reads like people from both sides of the argument had a go at this. Hopefully it should read a little better now. I haven't removed any sources from the article, though. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 12:02, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:47, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 08:24, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is certainly not trivial and given its consistent mentions in major media outlets as well as the ongoing clean-up, I think it is a definite keep. Perhaps an expansion mentioning its video series/youtube channel would be beneficial - some have over 1 million views.TheWarOfArt (talk) 21:29, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar ♔ 21:46, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. My understanding is that it is a very well known website in the American sports world. Has built a reputation as a controversial and irreverent site. Examples of in-depth coverage of site include: [1], [2], [3] and so on. Meets WP:GNG and WP:WEB fairly convincingly, IMHO. mikeman67 (talk) 18:53, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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