Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slate Star Codex
The previous comments in this deletion discussion were written before I added a substantial new, referenced subsection to the article. Each of the mentions of the Slate Star Codex blog in the reliable sources may be relatively short{{spaced ndash}} but together, they add up to enough material to sufficiently reliably source https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slate_Star_Codex&oldid=771109122 the current version of the article as of now. I would implore my fellow Wikipedia editors to employ their common sense here. Common sense suggests that if an otherwise roughly valid Wikipedia article can be written on a topic and reliably sourced, the topic satisfies one of the |reasons for instituting the GNG in the first place{{spaced ndash}} to exclude articles which could ''never'' be non-trivial if they were reliably sourced with currently-available sources, no matter how much they were improved. Also, the GNG does not actually say that coverage should be "in-depth", or should not be "passing mentions". It requires ''significant'' coverage, and says "Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention, but it does not need to be the main topic of the source material." So for the avoidance of doubt, it is OK, from the point of view of the GNG, that none of the independent sources cited have the SSC blog as their "main topic". What they do contain, collectively, is enough facts about the blog that are worthwhile to include in a Wikipedia article, to make it a non-trivial article. I think the current version of the article, as linked above, with over 700 words excluding references, counts as non-trivial. The GNG also explains: '"Significant coverage" addresses the topic directly and in detail, so that no original research is needed to extract the content.' Again, I think the intent of the guideline matters here, and I think the article is currently reasonably free of original research, which also being detailed, so that criterion seems to be satisfied ''sufficiently'' to make an article, which is what matters
— User:Greenrd, 17:10, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:WHYN (Wikipedia:Notability)