Talk:Wesleying

Proposed Deletion of Wesleying

On the issues that were stated for Wesleying's article deletion: 1. Bare URLs have been revised to show more bibliographic information. 2. Almost all references coming from the primary source (Wesleying) have been taken out, with the exception of a couple left in for citing purposes (for example, when the article mentions Wesleying liveblogging during Hurricane Sandy, a fully cited reference to that post is used). 3. As for the notability claims, I tried to illustrate that Wesleying is a blog from a very small college that has had huge influence in American college media as well as mainstream American media. It is NOT just important to its students or its alumni. Wesleyan University is one of America's top universities, not to mention one of the most cutting edge and funky of these top-tier universities. Wesleyan's film school is ranked seventh in the world (alumni include Michael Bay, Craig Thomas/Carter Bays who created How I Met Your Mother (a show aired throughout the globe whose characters are Wesleyan graduates), and Benh Zeitlin who wrote and directed Beasts of the Southern Wild). Its legendary music scene has been the subject of international media attention. Eighty percent of undergraduates go on to graduate school. Overall, Wesleyan is an interesting place by itself. Thus, Wesleying is an extension of Wesleyan to its own community as well as the outside world. In addition, Wesleying has measured up to its counterparts in terms of viewership despite having a much smaller student body and alumni network. What also separates Wesleying from many of its peer institutions' campus blogs is that Wesleying is not attached to Wesleyan financially or in any other official capacity, allowing the blog to post whatever it wants with administrative backlash; the publication also does not advertise on its site, meaning that revenue is raised internally. These are not small facts to overlook. As was also mentioned in the article, several blogs have looked to Wesleying for inspiration when creating their own blogs, and Wesleying is in fact an nationally-recognized, award-winning blog (also mentioned in its Wikipedia article).Zardiph9 (talk) 17:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I think you've done a great job. It's very much appreciated, most people just ignore the tags or remove them rather than address the issues, so thank you for doing so. I don't know if the blog is still a notable enough subject, but personally I don't have a problem with the article as it stands now. I'll let someone else make that call when they review it. Would certainly rather have well done articles on subjects of questionable notability than terrible ones on notable subjects. Mabalu (talk) 18:12, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for giving us the all-clear. Your suggestions were valid and they made our article much better. I also understand that notability is always a tough call. I would like to point out, though, that several other American college blogs do have Wikipedia pages, including IvyGate and Onward State, so there is precedence for the notability of college blogs on Wikipedia.Zardiph9 (talk) 19:00, 5 January 2013 (UTC)