Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KotoriCon

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 keep. (non-admin closure) Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{Let's talk}_{about my edits?} 12:45, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

KotoriCon

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Nonnotable local anime convention, covered only in local newspapers. NawlinWiki (talk) 16:04, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Local newspapers are still news organizations (reliable sources) and are sufficient to establish notability. If this is disagreed with, then the content should be merged with the Gloucester County College article, not deleted; I created the article so as to split said content out from the GCC article, which is getting a bit long. Allens (talk) 16:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, a search on "KotoriCon" on Google gives 40,500 webpages. I rather doubt that most, say, communes in France listed on Wikipedia have that many references - at least some of which are likely to quality as additional reliable sources. Allens (talk) 16:22, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, what is the protocol for putting in links to articles in Chinese by someone who doesn't understand the language except via Google Translate - see [1]? Thanks... This marks a third newspaper reporting on it, BTW. Allens (talk) 16:58, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. A quick search threw up loads of reliable sources. Local events can be notable. Basalisk ^{inspect damage}⁄_berate 18:13, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Quite. In the interests of full disclosure, I have notified people at WikiProject New Jersey about it, BTW, given the number of local articles that would be deleted using that criterion - I suspect the bot for AfD only picks something up if it's listed as under deletion after it's up as a WikiProject New Jersey article; I apologize if I am incorrect on this. Allens (talk) 18:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or merge -- multiple reliable sources establish notability. Unsure if there is enough material for a separate article however. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 18:55, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- A look at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Anime_and_manga/Conventions and its listing of material to go into an article on a convention seems to indicate that there's more that could go in there - examples of activities, the mascot, etc. Admittedly, I'm biased on this, since I tend to think that sticking in that much material into the main GCC article would be a bit much, especially considering that the style guide for College/University articles says that there's more that should go into the GCC article... Allens (talk) 19:19, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Anime and manga-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - WP:GNG doesn't forbid local news sources that are reliable from being used. Topic passes the General notability guideline. Northamerica1000^(talk) 17:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep After searching this, loads of hits came up on Google, most of which mentioned GCC without even having to click the link. If it's mentioned in third party publications (it appears to), then it is worth keeping, instead of adding more to the GCC page, which is getting a bit too long, as mentioned above, and this can cause the reader to become crazy. Tinton5 (talk) 00:15, 11 January 2012 (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.