Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Berlin Citizen

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The result was delete. Spartaz ^Humbug! 08:10, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Berlin Citizen[edit]

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Non-notable small town newspaper, no evidence of any awareness of it outside of its recipient base. Largoplazo (talk) 18:33, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:54, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Connecticut-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 19:55, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The coverage in the Hartford Courant helps establish notability since the Courant is a long-established reliable source and it is located outside the Berlin Citizen’s circulation area. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:01, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- The general notability guidelines require significant coverage in multiple reliable sources. Even the Hartford Courant articles consist of perfunctory announcements that "it's opening", "publication has been suspended", and "publication has resumed", with no in-depth coverage of the paper's activities and operations as a going concern. They're the counterpart to birth, college graduation, and marriage announcements, and obituaries, which similarly don't establish the notability of people. Largoplazo (talk) 20:43, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- the Hartford Courant...is located outside the Berlin Citizen’s circulation area
- Huh? That's absolutely false. It's not just that the Courant is a state-wide paper, Berlin is in Hartford County. --Calton | Talk 20:27, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination and counterargument, as well as the false claims by Eastmain. --Calton | Talk 20:27, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Draftify. For what it's worth, I think the argument above comes down to semantics, and can be dropped. Eastmain talks about the Citizen's circulation area and the Courant's place of publication, and the rebuttal seems to get those reversed. It's a small point, but worth noting. I expect that it will be possible to find more sources for this, but I haven't been able to come up with any searching in the usual places, so I think moving to Draft: space for further research is the best option. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 18:34, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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