Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Urbane Magazine

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The result was delete. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:26, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Urbane Magazine

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I initially WP:PRODed this with the following rationale: "Non-notable, short lived student publication. None of the current references appear to be valid significant coverage in reliable sources, and searches turned up no coverage elsewhere. Note that there appears to be a current magazine also named "Urbane", but it is unrelated to this defunct student publication." However, it seems that it had already been deleted via PROD in the past and recreated, thus making ineligible for that method of deletion again, so I am bringing it to AFD. Rorshacma (talk) 23:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Rorshacma (talk) 23:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Magazines aren't inherently notable, or automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles — the notability test hinges on demonstrating some significance, not just on verifying that the topic exists. But of the just four footnotes here, I get one directory entry that isn't support for notability at all, and three dead links of which two came from the student media of the same university this magazine also served (thus not fully independent of the topic for the purposes of being able to add GNG points) and one Waybacks as "page not found" even the first time Wayback ever scraped it at all. This is not the kind of sourcing it takes. (Also there was a probable conflict of interest here, as there's a significant correspondence between the username of the editor who created the article and the name of the magazine's publisher in the directory entry that constitutes footnote #1.) Bearcat (talk) 14:11, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The only secondary coverage I have been able to find is this mention in 2011 in the Globe & Mail (in an article written by the former fashion editor of Urbane Magazine) and a mention of the Urbane Magazine launch party in January 2010 in an Ontario newspaper article about a band called The Folk. Does not meet GNG. Cielquiparle (talk) 08:50, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.