[Wikipedia-l] Non-notability "abuse"

[Ian Tresman]

At 01:16 17/09/2007, you wrote:
>The magazine Pensée is notable, and nobody is questioning that. The
>article brought up for deletion was "Pensée (Immanuel Velikovsky
>Reconsidered)",  a "special series of ten issues of the magazine
>Pensée" devoted to a particular topic.
>
>I said at the AfD that the series was not notable in its own right,
>and amounted to an attempt to milk the issue for as many articles as
>possible. I also think it  would lead to excessive fragmentation for
>special issues of magazines to be notable as a matter of course, or
>for that matter most individual books in a controversy.
>
>That it was listed here as a matter of discrimination against a
>particular magazine shows only the POV of the poster.


I could find next to no verifiable material on 
the original Pensée magazine, but I'm pleased 
that you consider it notable nevertheless.

However, there appears to be much verifiable 
material on the dedicated special issues, making 
it more notable in its own right, than the 
original magazine. And that's the point.

If any of the other hundreds of student magazines 
listed on Wikipedia lasted only ten issues, then 
I'm sure that notability would not be an issue.

It's shame that you had to have a dig about my 
"POV". Encyclopedias are full of POVs, but was is 
important is that they are described neutrally and with reliable sources.

By the way, you appear to have voted twice in the AfD.

Regards,




Ian Tresman
www.plasma-universe.com