Deletion of Samizdata

Comment: Samizdata is an extremely well known politics blog. However, I would be surprised if there is a literature ''about'' the blog that would satisfy the requirements of . Certainly I don't think anything more than a couple of sentences could be written about it in encyclopedic fashion. Wikipedia does not exist to serve as a directory of everything in existence. It is an ''encyclopedia'': it covers subjects which have already been studied and/or reported on, and ''about which'' there is at least some literature that will satisfy the citation and verificatory requirements of an tertiary reference. I am therefore inclined to ask for a '''delete'''. I can be persuaded to ask for a redirect, either to an article on the Russian theme behind the name or to a general article on politics blogs
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V)

Comment: to Samizdat.  Failing consensus to do that, '''delete'''.  Mentioned in the gaurdian, which has had some good coverage of blogs.  However, in general blogs fail  and , this looks to be no excpetion.  Doesn't need to have it's own article
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:CITE)

Comment: Notable British blog nearly two million Google results for Samizdata see http://www.google.com/search?q=Samizdata&tab=nw&ie=UTF-8&sa=N Three Google news results http://news.google.com/news?q=Samizdata&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&sa=N. We need criteria in  covering blogs. We have them for Web Comics which are far less important in the scheme of things
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:WEB)