Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Buggy Days Celebration

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. Wizardman 16:08, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Buggy Days Celebration

Non-notable county fair, fails WP:N ukexpat (talk) 22:02, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Georgia (U.S. state)-related deletion discussions. -- ukexpat (talk) 22:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Request To Not Delete by Author of Page

To whom it may concern, I am putting together an article about an annual event that takes place every year in Barnesville, GA. I understand that the article needs references, sources and clean up. That will come with time. I wanted to get a shell of an article going that was accurate. My hopes are to enlist more participation from citizens of the town to help purify the article making it more flavorful and accurate.

Please do not delete.

Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullet30204 (talk • contribs) 22:32, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment to Bullet30204 whom it may concern. Editors understand that articles need time, assistance etc, the reason the article is up for deletion appears to be a general lack of notability, see Wikipedia:Notability. Yours Czar Brodie (talk) 22:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well do this: go to Google and put in these search words: Barnesville Buggy Days you'll see a lot of pages referencing what I'm writing about. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullet30204 (talk • contribs) 22:42, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, non notable fair. Esradekan Gibb ^"Talk" 22:46, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Author Its not a fair and it is notable to folks in Georgia and the South East US. It is a week long event, that celebrates a culture and history of a gone by era. Someone in the beautiful country of New Zealand, may not know of this event but may share something in common with the folks in the event in that one can trace threads of Scotch-Irish roots in the community as well as with the goings on of Buggy Days. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bullet30204 (talk • contribs) 22:56, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

To the author. I've left a comment on your talk page describing how you can move this article out of the "mainspace" and have an indefinite amount of time to bring it up to standards for inclusion in wikipedia. Protonk (talk) 23:22, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Smerge. As an editor in New Zealand (and in an area founded by Scots, what's more) I have to say that no, I don't know of this event, and wouldn't consider a similar event here in NZ notable enough for a separate Wikipedia article, even though it may be of some interest to the good people of Georgia. I would suggest that you might like to consider a smerge - that is, merging a brief one-to-two-paragraph summary of this event into the article on Barnesville, Georgia - rather than having it as a separate article (it really isn't notable enough for that). (BTW, "Barnesville Buggy Days" registers some 300 ghits). Grutness...wha? 02:01, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There actually are some reliable sources that discuss this event: [1]. Let's give Bullet30204 a chance to clean up the article. Zagalejo^^^ 00:09, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:JNN. --Happy editing! Sincerely, Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles^Tally-ho! 17:16, 12 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- That is an argument to avoid --T-rex 14:55, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I don't know how to put this gently, but while I'm sure it's a big deal to the folks of Barnesville, GA, but the fact is that tens of thousands of towns put on local festivals with contests, a parade, and fireworks, and it's about as remarkable as, say, the homecoming dance and football game at the high school. (Everybody has one of those, too, but they don't get Wikipedia articles.) A paragraph in the town's article would suffice. --MCB (talk) 07:05, 19 July 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.