Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mind over mountain

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 delete. Singu larity 05:52, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mind over mountain[edit]

Non-notable race, no reliable sources, PROD removed. Corvus cornix_talk 03:34, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete NN, lack of sources Mr Senseless (talk) 05:34, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep Race has been run for nine years, which is pretty good for events like this. 550 participants last run is also fairly large. Googling shows it linked from several biking clubs. Mykej (talk) 13:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep ~NeonFire372~ (talk) 19:51, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Its notability doesn't come from how long it has run, or whether five hundred contestants is significant; I've been in local Boy Scout rallies that numbered that many. It comes from reliable sources. Are there any testifying to the notability of this race? Only 103 Google hits [1], none from any media source. RGTraynor 22:46, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I came up with 21k hits. [2] If you get over 500 people to go to backcountry BC, it's pretty notable. Mykej (talk) 02:51, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you should have followed your hits to the end instead of just looking at the first page. Your search actually returns 187 hits [3]. RGTraynor 03:19, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I was leaning towards delete due to the fact that no one has yet put forward an argument that counts for anything, but the press do seem to have taken note of the race, as shown by the number of hits on the Google News archive, here. Google News is more useful as a search for reliable sources- not everything on it is reliable, and not everything reliable is on it, but these stories seem to imply enough notability for this article to be kept. J Milburn (talk) 20:58, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Errr ... did you actually look at any of those links? Several of them were written before this race was instituted, several are about mountain climbing, and all the links that reference this actual race come from a couple of websites. Are there any reliable sources, from actual press? RGTraynor 04:15, 21 December 2007 (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.