Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Menai Straits Swim

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The result was delete. re: redirection, the swim is not currently mentioned in Menai Strait. czar 04:49, 7 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Menai Straits Swim[edit]

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No evidence of any notability for this annual swimming race across the Menai Strait. Current version wholly unsourced. Searches yield some local newspaper coverage for some years but nothing that would get even close to establishing notability, not least because they read like press releases from the sponsoring company . Fails WP:GNG Velella ^{Velella Talk} 14:04, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 14:04, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wales-related deletion discussions. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 14:04, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep/merge Tacitus records that Roman auxiliaries swam across the straits back in the day. This latest event seems to have been running since 1955. The worst case would be merger to Menai Strait per WP:ATD. Andrew🐉(talk) 14:47, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - This article is a simple short advertisement for a company sponsoring a swim across the Menai Strait. It makes no mention of any historical crossings of the strait by Romans or others. A simple, modern, outdated and unsourced advertisement. Hence the request to delete. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 12:40, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:39, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:16, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jack Frost (talk) 00:44, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. I don't see any justification for redirecting to Menai Straits: people are much more likely to search for the latter than for the former. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 16:52, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:03, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I agree with the other delete voters that this is essentially an advert for a swim and that a redirect probably isn't needed. Plus, it fails WP:GNG as it currently is anyway. Which I doubt will change. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:30, 31 July 2020 (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.