Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/New York Journal of Books
This was previously discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Plot to Hack America, out of a discussion as to whether this publication is itself "Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources|reliable" for use on WP (later discussed at Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_227#New_York_Journal_of_Books|RSN). The NYJB article then exploded from a series of mentions into what is effectively no different than a series of mentions. Assayer's analysis is spot on: The sources do not have |depth or independence from the publication, and the rest of the sources are either asides or links to author bios, none of which describe NYJB in enough depth for us to paraphrase into an encyclopedia article. If this extraneous information were to be removed from the article, we'd be back at the original stub. The IP editor above (if indeed the NYJB founder) says as much, that there is not much coverage of the pub in reliable, secondary sources (first bullet). (P.S. We could respond on any number of your points raised, but this is the wrong venue for that.) To the point of this AfD discussion, the nominator makes a straightforward case about the ''sourcing'' (not "cleanup") of this article, which does not fulfill the |general notability guideline (re: depth/independence) and which requires more than a dump of passing mentions of the subject. I recommend staying on topic
— [[User talk:Czar|czar]], 20:45, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:42||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything)