Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.NET Rocks!
The article's subject fails to meet . While the article has seven references so far, they are all incapable of evidencing notability. The first reference is to the podcast's iTunes page, where it is offered. As a primary source, it does not evidence notability. The second reference is to www.asp.net, Microsoft's official ASP site, where the podcast is listed as a learning resource. As Microsoft has a vested interest in promoting the podcast, it is not evidence of notability. Even if this were to be ignored, the coverage does not give any reason to deem the podcast notable since the coverage is indiscriminate, non-critical guide-like. The third is to a NYT article (the one mentioned in the above keep comment), but it does not evidence notability.  requires that any coverage be non-trivial; and the NYT article falls below non-trivial, since its coverage of the topic is more accurately described as tangential. There are ''two'' mentions of .NET Rocks! in the article, and in both mentions, it isn't the central subject. The first mention is in a photo caption identifying the two people in the photo that also describes what they are doing (which happens to be editing .NET Rocks!). The second mention is around two-thirds of they way down the article, where .NET Rocks! is mentioned as an example of how easy it is for podcasts to reach a specific audience. The fourth reference does not indicate notability for the same reason as the NYT article: it talks about podcasting in general with .NET Rocks! used as an example of a podcast. Although the coverage is more substantial than the NYT coverage, it still does not constitute as "non-trivial". The fifth reference is to DevProConnections, which is just an excerpt of a podcast transcript edited by the podcast's host Richard Campbell. The policies and guidelines don't discuss whether this sort of source indicates notability, but because these are transcript excerpts, I think it is reasonable to class it as a primary source. The sixth reference is once again trivial coverage. Lastly, the seventh reference is a transcript of a .NET Rocks podcast posted at a blog. It does not indicate notability for the same reason as the fifth reference. Searching for ''".NET Rocks!" +podcast -blog -forum'' on Google Web returns 333 "unique" results. The first few pages (of 20 results each) do not appear to contain coverage of the broadcast that can indicate notability. Searching for ".NET Rocks!" on Google News returns four trivial/press release results; and Books returns one un-previewable result that appears to mention the podcast as part of an author biography, judging from the text snippet viewable
— User:Rilak, 05:31, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N||WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)