Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Universe Today (3rd nomination)
per Wikipedia:Verifiability. Despite two previous AfDs and over five years of existence (this article was created on 11 January 2006), this article does not cite any |reliable sources. The sole source is http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/universetoday.com this Alexa link. Tantamount to a directory entry, Alexa links cannot be used to establish notability because they are not as calculated and selective as sources that purposefully delve into a specific topic. A http://www.google.com/search?q=%22universetoday.com%22&tbm=nws&tbs=ar:1 Google News Archive search and a http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22universetoday.com%22 Google Books search return passing mentions. Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline requires that topics receive nontrivial coverage in multiple secondary reliable sources. No one has been able to provide even one such source. The article currently fails the guideline at Wikipedia:Notability. As to Wikipedia:Notability (web), I do not believe passing it would allow this article to remain. As {{user|S Marshall}} wrote at Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2011 August 12#Kate Oxley: DRV has tended to find, of late, that the GNG trumps all SNGs. I like this: it feels right to me that there should be a simple test, and that inclusionists should not get to argue that meeting a SNG prevents deletion, and also that deletionists should not get to argue that failing a SNG leads to deletion. I'd like this simple and clear view to continue, which means I '''endorse''' the finding in this case. As I've said before, I think this means we can go around demoting the SNGs to essay status. I agree with S Marshall's position on subject-specific notability guidelines' being trumped by the general notability guideline. Therefore, I support deleting this article for failing Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline and Wikipedia:Verifiability
— User:Cunard, 05:25, 20 August 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)