Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alt.usage.english
If one uses  as the standard, this article does not pass. USENET groups are not much more than the predecessors of the web-based forums of today, and by and large those sites don't pass . The mass of Google hits are nearly all from archive sites that mirror USENET groups, or individual posts from the subject group. Neither are considered reliable sources. Google Groups is just Google's own USENET newsfeed
— User:DarkAudit, 01:12, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:WEB||WP:WEB (Wikipedia:Notability)