Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/International Hair Route Magazine

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:16, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

International Hair Route Magazine

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Article about a niche-interest magazine ("the permanent hair removal industry"?!?), not properly sourced as passing our notability standards for magazines -- the only "reference" here is a WorldCat directory entry, not any form of reliable source coverage about it that would establish its notability at all. As always, however, magazines are not automatically entitled to keep virtually unsourced articles just because they're technically verifiable as existing: the notability test is the reception of independent coverage about the magazine in sources other than just indiscriminate directories. Bearcat (talk) 22:22, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:22, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:22, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete in its current state the article contains no reliable sources that demonstrate it is notable. Railfan23 (talk) 22:23, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Magazine went defunct some time between 2012 and 2014; a trade magazine without much WP:N outside the depilation industry otherwise (though now I thank that search result for adding a particularly coarse ad from a shaving company to my Google ad history 😑). Nate • (chatter) 22:46, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - The single reference shows that the Journal exists, but it does not seem to meet WP:NBOOK. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:04, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - No demonstration of notability. Barca (talk) 22:50, 5 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - trade magazines are not inherently notable. Bearian (talk) 15:21, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete since subject is evidently not notable nor worthy or an entry in Wikipedia. People keep confusing Wikipedia for the List of Periodicals. -The Gnome (talk) 06:37, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.