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.
Article about an annual conference, which makes no particularly strong claim of notability beyond the fact that it exists. This is "referenced" solely to a linkfarm of external links to its own
self-published content about itself rather than any evidence of
reliable source coverage to get it over
WP:ORGDEPTH or
WP:EVENT. As always, every event that exists is not automatically entitled to use Wikipedia to promote itself -- but neither the text nor the quality of referencing are offering strong reasons why this would qualify for an encyclopedia article.
Bearcat (
talk)
02:08, 5 September 2018 (UTC)reply
We don't keep unreferenced articles just because somebody asserts that the topic is "major" and "important" — what would actually need to be shown to get this kept is that
reliable source coverage actually exists for it to be cleaned up with. Media coverage about this is who has to tell us that it's "major" and "important" enough to have an encyclopedia article — an unreferenced assertion of importance is not enough all by itself, because anybody could simply say that about anything if they didn't actually have to show the sources to prove it.
Bearcat (
talk)
18:25, 11 September 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak delete reluctantly. It is very easy to find references to this event going back over many years but they all seem to be non mainstream and-or not sufficiently independent. To me it looks like a case of systemic bias in main stream media - hence it fails on lack of
WP:NEXIST to support GNG. (Not the first time WP falls victim to its own well intentioned policies.)
Aoziwe (
talk)
13:20, 14 September 2018 (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.