Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr Gay Wales

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The result was no consensus. Waggers TALK 09:37, 16 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mr Gay Wales

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No indication of notability, tagged for issues for a while now. QueenofBithynia (talk) 21:22, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Beauty pageants, Sexuality and gender, and Wales. Shellwood (talk) 21:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Unsourced article. MrsSnoozyTurtle 08:54, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-first-physically-disabled-mr-19268861 https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/14/the-witches-anne-hathaway-limb-difference-paul-davies-mr-gay-wales/ https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/ex-soldier-who-once-homeless-13156109 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/man-making-history-first-physically-11664503 https://attitude.co.uk/article/attitudes-bachelor-of-the-day-former-mr-gay-wales-paul-davies/14462/ https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/champion-kickboxer-who-came-out-14869991 Not your siblings' deletionist (talk) 21:26, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:57, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:12, 2 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, there is sufficient coverage in reliable sources.
- Wales Online "Christopher Price has since been named Mr Gay Wales 2018"[1]
- Wales Online "This man is making history as the first physically-disabled Mr Gay winner... and he's about to represent Wales in Europe"[2]
- Channel 4 - a film on a Mr Gay Wales winner was shortlisted for the Iris Prize[3]
  - Gay London Life identifies the shortlisted film as Three Letters from Welsh filmmaker directed by Ian Smith[4]
- Wales Online An ex-soldier who was once homeless has been named Mr Gay Wales"[5]

The website of Mr Gay Europe confirms that Mr Gay Wales is a 'producer', which I take to mean a feeder competition.[6]

Verbcatcher (talk) 13:05, 5 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, leaning delete I have a hard time seeing these sources having sigcov on the pageant itself (except maybe the stuff about having their first disabled winner); they seem mostly about the competitors in the pageant. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 13:37, 7 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:39, 9 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: as per above, there are enough suitable sources to indicate notability. The fact that they're not currently in the article is not a sufficient reason for deletion. Cardiffbear88 (talk) 17:22, 13 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I agree with Mellohi! that the sources mentioned above aren't actually discussing the competition itself "directly and in detail" as WP:SIGCOV requires, and my search didn't find anything else that would contribute to notability. Not seeing any solid alternatives to deletion either: there's no logical redirect target, and none of the content here is sourced well enough to be worth merging. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:47, 16 September 2022 (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.