Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elder of Ziyon

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The result was keep. Randykitty (talk) 15:44, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Elder of Ziyon[edit]

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Non-notable blog on blogspot.com that doesn't even have its own separate website. All of the secondary sources in the article have just passing mentions of it, none of them are independently about the subject topic. Article seems completely random, surely every blogspot blog that gets a passing mention in a few sources isn't notable enough for its own article? N Ø 16:18, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit - Actually, the more I'm reading the article, all of the "passing mentions" have also been faked and none of the linked sources actually mention this blog anywhere. The only accurate information (and I'm doubtful about this too) in here comes from the primary source which is the blog itself. The whole article is a crufty bunch of lies obviously written by the blog creator and needs to be speedy deleted.--N Ø 16:42, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The citations I spot checked do discuss and cite this blogger, and do so accurately.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:33, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MaranoFan, what makes you think that this was "obviously written by the blog creator"? It's been here for 6 years with 45 editors.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:46, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'll refrain from making further comments because I've not had the time to spotcheck several references but the one Forbes link I checked was cited as having a "picture from the blog" included on it but didn't actually confirm anything like that. I assumed that it must have been the blog creator who added these false claims of notability just to save it from deletion, or fans of the blog.--N Ø 10:31, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Professor Craig Martin of St. Thomas Aquinas College in his book, Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion and the Private Sphere, p. 4, engages with this Elder pretty seriously [1].E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Beyond being widely circulated (in addition to the blogspot, this is run on this byline in a couple of Jewish newspapers), EoZ has been coverage in this book, roasted by this critic, briefly covered in Sienkiewicz, Matt. "The Carnival’s Edge: Charlie Hebdo and Theories of Comedy." Jewish History: 1-14., as well as coverage by NEWSORGs over a fairly long period - e.g. - [2][3][4][5][6]. Icewhiz (talk) 09:05, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notable hate site. Zero^talk 09:20, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep sources establish notability.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:52, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notability does not equal an endorsement. Wolfson5 (talk) 06:48, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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