Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edible Book Festival

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The result was keep. TonyBallioni (talk) 03:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edible Book Festival[edit]

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I'm not convinced this is anything other than a series of unrelated April Fools jokes. The "Books2Eat.com" website is defunct, but [1] contains some of the content. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:00, 8 April 2018 (UTC):[reply]

It does seem to be edited pretty regularly every April 1st, and it is stated at least once to be an April Fool's joke. There may be some slight substance there but it's overwhelmingly jokey. Does repeated jokey coverage constitute notability, I wonder. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:18, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The festival exists; it's not "a series of unrelated April Fools jokes" i.e. lies. See here. -The Gnome (talk) 00:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 11:42, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 20:15, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 20:15, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep (Vote of article Creator) [2][3][4][5] The festival is real and libraries across US have been celebrating it. The original website has moved to http://www.books2eat.beatricecoron.com/index.html Redtigerxyz ^Talk 17:11, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Winged Blades^Godric 03:42, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Even a weak attempt to find sources returns a whole lot to satisfy GNG, and clear evidence it's real. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 20:37, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, i googled and there are enough mentions, seems to be mentioned in a lot of libraries as you'd think. Szzuk (talk) 17:54, 23 April 2018 (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.