This article was nominated for deletion on 13 February 2009. The result of the discussion was speedy keep, nom withdrawn.
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Proposed speedy deletion per criteria A3 (no content), but also A1 (no context). Article was already deleted in the past, on March 20th, 2008. --Deenoe 22:14, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Removed speedy deletion tag. There is now has enough context to identify the subject (it is a State fair). The state fair of Florida with an attendance of over 400,000 people will pass any notability questions that may come up.--kelapstick (talk) 22:17, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
You're not really supposed to just remove a Speedy tag. I submitted this article to an AfD discussion, because I still believe there is absolutely no context or content on the article. I wouldn't mind seeing the article stay, but I think it would be fair to have a community discussion on this. --Deenoe 22:21, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note (even though the deletion talks are completed) an editor who is not the creator may remove a speedy deletion tag as per WP:CSD--kelapstick (talk) 05:18, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I see someone is working on the article and I don't want to cause an edit conflict, but I just copied this bit from the Zoonosis article:
"In 2005, a petting zoo that exhibited at two [[Florida]] fairs and a festival was traced as the source of an ''E. coli'' O157:H7 outbreak (an example of [[zoonosis]]?). Sixty-three people who had visited either the [[Florida State Fair]], the Central Florida Fair, or the Florida Strawberry Festival reported illness to investigators for the [[Florida Department of Health]], including 20 who were culture-confirmed and 7 with [[Hemolytic-uremic syndrome|HUS]]. A case-control study revealed that illness was associated with exposure to a petting zoo exhibit present at all three events.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |title=Outbreaks of ''Escherichia coli'' O157:H7 Associated with Petting Zoos — North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona, 2004 and 2005 |journal=MMWR |volume=54 issue= 50 |page=1279 |year=2005}}</ref>" ChildofMidnight (talk) 23:11, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
