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Yahoo Philippines

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Appears to fail WP:GNG A1Cafel (talk) 08:37, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge to List of Yahoo-owned sites and services#Defunct Yahoo! services Sources are all WP:ITEXISTS, then ITNOLONGEREXISTS as with most country-specific portal sites for Yahoo. Nathannah • 📮 22:59, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fifth power (politics)

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Seems to be a WP:REDUNDANTFORK of Fifth Estate. Also considered proposing a WP:Merge but the content of this article is poorly sourced and unsuitable for a merge. WP:BEFORE at the very least does not show this to be an independent concept. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 14:08, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: At first I would have voted on merge with Fifth Estate, but since the article does not cite any sources explicitly, we can safely remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pragmatic Puffin (talk • contribs) 18:11, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NewsBreak

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NewsBreak is not nearly notable enough for a Wikipedia page, they do not have enough articles/news information about them to even expand the page further than it is now. There is nothing SIGNIFICANT about this; per Wikipedia guidelines for Notability, to determine if a topic merits its own article, it requires significant coverage in reliable, independent sources that are not self-published or promotional. And so far, this article is WP:UNDUE, ONE Rueters article covers an entire paragraph. No notability. OhNoKaren (talk) 01:28, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copied this from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/NewsBreak Justi yaya 02:24, 4 April 2025 (UTC) [reply]

Comment there is an additional source on the talk and possible coverage in Chinese sources (like [1]) though they're frequently not loading and I'm not familiar with them to comment on their reliability. Justi yaya 02:51, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Can't you see? That article literally has local in it's opening paragraph! Well, I mean... You can see that. Everyone with vision can see that. An editor from Mars (talk) 04:23, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Notability is not determined by how big of an area a news organization covers. We have hundreds of articles on daily newspapers that publish local news. Iiii I I I (talk) 08:35, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep – I found several secondary sources that span a good period after a brief search:

Digiday (October 4, 2021), "Inside Newsbreak’s search for stability in its nearly year-old creators program".
Business Insider (January 31, 2022), "Former NBC 'Today' chief Jim Bell will join local news app startup NewsBreak to set strategy, hire journalists".
NBC News (March 20, 2024), "Crime stories drove readers to GoFundMe campaigns, only the victims didn't exist".
The Wrap (December 18, 2024), "Steve Harvey Death Rumor Sparked by Bogus AI Story".

Plus Chinese-language articles from secondary sources:

The Paper (May 28, 2020), "沈向洋下一站确定：投资并出任News break董事长"
21st Century Business Herald (February 8, 2021), "News Break突围，海外“今日头条”们能否迎来第二春？"
Radio France Internationale (June 6, 2024), "美国新闻应用程式以AI写假新闻？演算法办公室在中国"
Voice of America (June 11, 2024), "又一个TikTok? 美议员担心新闻应用程序NewsBreak的中国背景，呼吁进行严格审查"

Plus many reliable sources covering Reuters' June 5, 2024 article, which shows newsworthiness:

Ars Technica, "Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news"
Engadget, "Popular US news app accused of using AI to make up fake stories"
Entrepreneur, "The Most Downloaded News App in the U.S. May Have Published Dozens of Fake, AI-Written Stories"
Futurism, "Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untrue AI Articles"

I don't see a problem with that paragraph citing just one source, considering 1) the source is Reuters, which is reliable, and 2) the article in question is an in-depth, long-form investigative piece. Iiii I I I (talk) 07:55, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Thank you for your detailed research, Iiii I I I (talk · contribs). The sources you found show that NewsBreak passes Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline and Wikipedia:Notability (web)#Criteria. Cunard (talk) 07:41, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KC Nwakalor

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Non notable photojournalist whose works are paid for projects by organizations and only attributed to him and the organizations he works for. All of the cited sources do not discuss him and his works directly or indirectly but only attributed to him. The attribution is a standard practice acknowledging copyright owners and cannot be used for notability CPDJay (talk) 13:27, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Mokokchung Times

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Challenging draftification. I found no significant coverage of the website from any reliable sources. There are passing mentions, but they are not enough to meet SIGCOV. Additionally, no policy states that being a news organization automatically makes it notable. GrabUp - Talk 11:45, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep I am coming here from the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Newspapers#What_do_you_cite_when_You_are_talking_about_a_Newspaper? and a request for comment on newspaper notability which I am organizing at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Newspapers/Notability#Request_for_comment:_Notability_guideline_for_newspapers. Here we have a Wikipedia article for an English language newspaper in Nagaland. I highly respect Wikipedia's fact-checking process, which says that we cannot have Wikipedia articles without sufficient citations. This article does not meet that requirement, which is documented at WP:GNG. However, I am proposing and exploring the idea that newspapers need a special exception, because they themselves are the sources which we use to fact-check other content. Having Wikipedia articles for newspapers is the natural way for anyone to find available information about a newspaper, or also - and this is very useful - confirm that no one has been able to find many sources for a newspaper.

We have very little Wikipedia representation in Nagaland (Northeast India) and I looked at this newspaper, and right now it seems fine.

Here are some article headlines which I see right now in this newspaper. All of them seem appropriate to me to cite to develop Wikipedia articles on related topics:

TIMES, MOKOKCHUNG (1 April 2025). "Nagaland: Four injured in clash over border dispute; Dy CM calls for calm » MokokchungTimes.com". mokokchungtimes.com.
TIMES, MOKOKCHUNG (1 April 2025). "Nagaland govt officials reaffirm commitment to strengthening sports infrastructure for youth empowerment » MokokchungTimes.com". mokokchungtimes.com.
TIMES, MOKOKCHUNG (10 March 2025). "Mokokchung's waste and burial site woes: MMC struggles for alternatives » MokokchungTimes.com". mokokchungtimes.com.
TIMES, MOKOKCHUNG (15 September 2023). "Imnayongdang Kichu: The inventor behind the 'Areca Nut Peeler' » MokokchungTimes.com". mokokchungtimes.com.

Bluerasberry (talk) 16:12, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Per nom, Nothing to pass WP:GNG. Lack of significant coverage. Bakhtar40 (talk) 17:59, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You will barely find any references for newspapers. News media do not talk about each other. This was already a discussion in Wikiproject:Newspaper that the criteria for normal articles cannot be used for newspapers. Kindly see Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 20:26, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep In accordance with WP:NMEDIA, dailies such as Mokokchung Times are assumed significant if they extensively circulate and contain a known history of independent reporting. Asking for major secondary coverage creates an unrealistic expectation—media does not cover others. Removing this page has the risk of enabling systemic bias (WP:BIAS) against regional media. Agree with (Bluerasberry)Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 02:49, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Arunachal Times

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Challenging draftification. I found no significant coverage of the website from any reliable sources. There are passing mentions, but they are not enough to meet SIGCOV. Additionally, no policy states that being a news organization automatically makes it notable. GrabUp - Talk 11:44, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete: Per nom, No evidence of notability. References are just passing mentions and not from reliable sources. Bakhtar40 (talk) 18:01, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You will barely find any references for newspapers. News media do not talk about each other. This was already a discussion in Wikiproject:Newspaper that the criteria for normal articles cannot be used for newspapers. Kindly see Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 20:24, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Where I live, newspapers are covered extensively by both encyclopedias and books. Any hope there? Geschichte (talk) 07:05, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In the west yes, but not so when it comes to Asian countries. Thats why I mentioned that, we gotta approach newspapers differently, as it creates an obvious bias. Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 15:37, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep: In accordance with WP:NMEDIA, dailies such as Arunachal Times are assumed significant if they extensively circulate and contain a known history of independent reporting. Asking for major secondary coverage creates an unrealistic expectation—media does not cover others. Removing this page has the risk of enabling systemic bias (WP:BIAS) against regional media. You cannot judge dailies using WP:GNG as dailies themselves are the source of 3rd party material. Other dailies don't usually write about each other Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 02:51, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep - searching on Google Books reveal that plenty of works reference this newspaper. South Asia and China: Engagement in the Twenty-First Century has ample commentary about the editorial positions of the newspaper on Indo-China issues. Mass Media of India -2004 lists it as one of the principal dailies in the state. The sole daily in Arunachal Pradesh listed in Press in India, vol. 33. "Arunachal Times was published from the state with Vijay Kumar Nath as the chief editor and Taso Grayu as the editor - cum- publisher . Kumar joined in August 1989 and ultimately took over as its editor in December 2003. Its popularity grew day by day . From letter composing , the daily introduced offset in 1996 and web offset on 2nd December 2008."([2]). In 2014-2015 Arunchal Times had the second-largest advertisement payments from central Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of all Arunchal newspapers ([3]). "In July this year, Tongam Rina, a leading journalist and associate editor of Arunachal Times was shot from close range while she was leaving the office." (The Telegraph), "On July 15, 2012, the well-known investigative journalist and associate editor of the Arunachal Times was shot by unknown gunmen as she entered..." (IFJ). "Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Nabam Tuki has enquired about the progress of investigation into the recent attacks on The Arunachal Times office" (ToI). Etc, etc. It almost feels like WP:BEFORE was not performed before bringing this to AfD. --Soman (talk) 01:44, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Two Sevens

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Lack of notability Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 20:21, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Redirect to John King (author): or to Peter Mason (journalist), mentioned there. And in time, if secondary sources are added, expand back into a page (Redirect with possibilities). -Mushy Yank. 09:30, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisting comment: Relisting. Two different Redirect target articles suggested here. Any more support for either one?
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Two Sevens (via WP:PROD on 22 March 2025)