Deletion of Rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs

Comment: Wikipedia is not a 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:WEB)

Comment: Using  in the absence of any established standard for USENET groups by themselves, this article does not pass. There may be thousands of Google hits, but those are almost exclusively sites that archive USENET groups, and thus are simply mirrors of the group. Google Groups is nothing more than Google's own USENET feed. This is really no different than the web-based forums that have since come into being. Only in very exceptional cases do those web forums pass . This is not an exceptional case
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:WEB||WP:WEB)

Comment: These are textbook examples of mention "in passing" as part of a wider article. such a mention is specifically mentioned as ''not'' passing 
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:WEB)