Talk:Loggernaut

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[edit] Notability

The notability of this entry has been questioned. I believe the entry is notable.

Here's the Wiki definition of notability: a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself.

1) On 12 June 2006, the Loggernaut Reading Series was the subject of a feature article in The Oregonian, a daily newspaper with a circulation of 350,000 (see The Oregonian). The link to this article was formerly on the Loggernaut Wikipedia page; however, the article is no longer available online (here is the dead link: [1] However, anyone with access to Lexis-Nexis or to archives of major U.S. newspapers can access this article.

2) On 23 August 2006, the Loggernaut Reading Series was the subject of an editorial/interview[2] in the Willamette Week, a publication that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2005.

I think those two facts, alone, indicate that Loggernaut meets the requirements of notability: it is a subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works whose sources are independent of the subject itself.

Additionally--although not directly addressing the criteria of notability--Loggernaut events are routinely listed and lauded in the weekly papers in Portland. [3] [4][5] [6].

Also--and this will fall under the category of original research until I take the time to cite any number of newspaper and magazine articles in agreement--it is simply a reality of North American literary circles that a large amount of literary activity and discussion now takes place online, with some literary blogs now serving the public discourse of literature to a much greater extent than do traditional print literary journals. The appearances that the Loggernaut website makes in such well-read literary blogs as Maud Newton, Rake's Progress [7], Elegant Variation, and Beatrice is not insignificant.

But, again, I think points 1) and 2) make the case for the notability of Loggernaut as an online literary journal and a reading series. -- harlanjohnson 02:51 14 February 2007

[edit] Merge

Note to admin: there has already been signifigant support for a Merge, in a recent AFD discussion and no opinions have been voiced for no merge at the time of this writing, and, on that note, I voice my Support of a merge here due to brevity. i kan reed 01:48, 16 November 2006 (UTC)