Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/St. Joseph Slaton Sausage Festival

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The result was merge to Slaton, Texas. v/r - T P 00:54, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

St. Joseph Slaton Sausage Festival

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Trivial local festival held by a church in a small town in Texas. Routine local sources only. An encyclopedia article requires some reason for it, and anything like this is just local news filler. Even if it technically meets the GNG, that does not guarantee an article. DGG ( talk ) 08:37, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article was based directly on existent Wikipedia articles, for the exact same type of events. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_King_Sausage_Fest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Fest Adambehnke ( talk ) 13:05, 11 October 2011 (UTC) — Adambehnke (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:15, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Fails to satisfy the guideline WP:Event which says "An event is presumed to be notable if it receives significant, non-routine coverage that persists over a period of time. Coverage should be in multiple reliable sources with national or global scope." This sausage fest is only of local importance, and routine coverage in local media does not rise to establishment of encyclopedic notability. "Other similar articles exist" is only a compelling argument for more AFDs. Edison (talk) 17:25, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. The coverage is local in scope and mostly of the "this is when it is/was, here's the food they served, etc." ilk and simple directory/events calendar type mentions. Ultimately just routine coverage around the time of the event but nothing that shows lasting non-temporary notability. Might be worth mentioning in an article about the school, but nothing here to show why this should be a standalone topic in an encyclopedia. --Kinu ^t/_c 19:19, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
~~Delete~~ (Changing my opinion to Merge and Redirect per Bushranger below) I am sure that (as Adambehnke points out) we have other articles here that don't meet our notability criteria, but that won't help keep the article. (See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS.) But the information could be put somewhere else in Wikipedia, rather than in a whole article of its own. Is this St. Joseph Catholic School the school that sponsors it? (I wasn't sure because that St. Joseph's is said to be in Bryan rather than Slaton.) If so the information could be added to that article. --MelanieN (talk) 00:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oops - it looks as if the St. Joseph's School in Slaton is different - and only goes through 7th grade so it would probably not qualify for a Wikipedia article. In that case I'd suggest you add the information about the sausage festival to the article about Slaton, Texas. --MelanieN (talk) 00:13, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge and redirect to Slaton, Texas. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 20:51, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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