Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Viking Youth Power Hour

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 was Keep. Rx StrangeLove 05:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Viking Youth Power Hour

This article was prodded and actually deleted briefly by myself, but on further inspection I decided to restore it and send it to AfD to be sure, since this podcast seemed potentially notable to me. "Viking Youth Power Hour" gets nearly 20,000 hits, and it seems they have interviewed people notable enough to have Wikipedia articles about them. So, I decided to send it here to carry out the prod, get some opinions, and perhaps clean it up if it is indeed notable. No vote. EWS23 (Leave me a message!) 21:50, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

This article clearly fulfills the requirements as a biographical site, notable web content, etc. The Viking Youth Power Hour produces valuable research and interviews with high profile individuals of popular culture and discusses current events. Looking at the article shows how many of their shows have reflected the lives and cultural events of many of the subjects of articles from Wikipedia. It seems difficult to say that Wikipedia's validity as an entity is very discernable from the validity of the Viking Youth Power Hour's presence on Wikipedia as they spend much of their time extrapolating on similar subjects. Please keep this article around.— Sire 012 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 15:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I think this article is legit, for what it is worth...the Vikings have been around for awhile now and they've got one of the top counter cultural podcasts going (IMHO).— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.232.189.73 (talk • contribs)

• Delete, it may be legit, but it doesn't meet WP:WEB.--Isotope23 16:34, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep:

2. The website or content has won a well known and independent award, either from a publication or organisation.

"The Viking Youth Power Hour was chosen as Chicago's Favorite podcast by the editors and readers of New City magazine in 2005."

This isn't a national award, but is still a third party award publicly voted on.

This podcast sells nothing and interviews and discusses the very things on Wikipedia while creating original culturally significant content.

perhaps i am confused but there are a multitude of articles on unsigned bands that do and say little other than they are great. where does the line exist? -emit_flesti 17:22, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I can only speak for myself, but I don't think "...Chicago's Favorite podcast by the editors and readers of New City magazine in 2005..." constitutes a "a well known and independent award". As for the multitudes of articles on unsigned bands, there is a guideline at WP:MUSIC that covers musical acts. If they fall short of this they should probably be nominated for deletion.--Isotope23 18:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I think that was part of my point of it not being national. There are many 'well-known' awards that most people had any exposure to such as a Caddy, BDA an a slew of mathematics awards[1] only a small group of people have ever heard of. Not to make this a discussion on what makes an award well-known and independent but I think the Grammys are a sham but it's not up to me to dismiss that award as not fitting into my idea of an award. I suppose it will depend on the moderators decision on what a well-known award constitutes. -emit_flesti 16:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep:

The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.[7]
+ - as well as self distribution and republishing through other aggragator channels VYPH is currently distributed by itunes music store which is one of the most well known as well as the most popular sources of podcasts.
+ - -- Justin Reed-Chicago, IL — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.236.208.28 (talk • contribs)

~ Keep the Vikings up on Wikipedia- my life support is directly attached to this wikipedia entry and I'll die without it. -lupus le fou

• Keep. heqs 04:15, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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