Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Law and Inequality

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The result was KEEP nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure). Whpq (talk) 14:29, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Law and Inequality

Nothing in the article indicates what makes this college law journal notable. No third party sources. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 22:43, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. -- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 01:04, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in Wikipedia:WikiProject Academic Journals/Deletion. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:17, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. The journal is fairly widely held by academic libraries in the U.S., 216 libraries in the U.S. according to WorldCat search[1]. References provided in the article are sufficient to show that this is quite a respected academic law publication. Another example: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg citing an article from the journal in one of her opinions[2]. With WP articles about academic journals WP:N is a poor guide, since there is absolutely no tradition in academia of writing anything about such journals, but rather to publish research in them. There is, as it happens, a current discussion regarding this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Academic Journals. So one just needs to apply common sense in such situations. If you like, this is a case for applying WP:IAR. Nsk92 (talk) 04:33, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The journal is indexed for impact factor at the WLU ranking of law journals[3]. Doing a search for the impact factor there gives this journal a ranking of 82 out of 928 journals ranked, with an impact factor of 0.95. Directly below it in the rankings are: "Michigan Journal of International Law", "Columbia Human Rights Law Review", "Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance". Nsk92 (talk) 05:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Nsk92's findings. Top 10% of law journals seems notable enough, and two supreme court judges publishing in it and referring to it is also a high-level testimony to its significance. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:13, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Nsk92's detailed analysis. --Crusio (talk) 05:28, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, while I created this article very early on in my career here (I'm much better at citing sources, etc, and have an FA to my name), I think a quick search by the nominator would've demonstrated its notability: Law & Inequality is a respected law review, as Nsk92 easily found out. In fact, anyone who's worked on a law review has probably run into it at one time or another (especially since its one of the foremost journals in its subject area). It sounds like the nominator needs to become better versed in law reviews and their role in legal thought, education and academia. As a side note, I only picked two of the four journals at the University of Minnesota Law School to create articles about, because of their significance. --Bobak (talk) 17:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Due to the sourcing, I will withdraw my nomination. Little Red Riding Hoodtalk 22:34, 12 October 2008 (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.