Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nude & Breast Freedom Parade

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The result was Delete. If someone would like the content to start a How Berkeley Can You Be article just let me know and I'll be happy to userfy it. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nude & Breast Freedom Parade[edit]

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Fails WP:GNG, lack of significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 07:24, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Mentioned (one sentence-long paragraph) in the September 17, 2000 New York Times. GNews does turn up a few paywalled references in northern California newspapers plus some articles in the Daily Californian.[1] Used to be a mildly notorious event in Berkeley, not sure if it's still around. May be worth some further digging (and I will try later). --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:18, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

All the Daily Californian links are showing "Page not found". --SupernovaExplosion ^Talk 15:22, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:46, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:48, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I think this article needs photos. Tony May (talk) 19:01, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete; could not find sufficient reliable sources for the subject to pass WP:EVENT or WP:GNG. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:55, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable. The event has garnered only passing and local coverage that I could find. The sources cited in the article are no help. I could not find any references at all later than 2005, suggesting that the event is no longer held. --MelanieN (talk) 16:18, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The sources I could find are not really clear about this, but what may have happened is that the "X-plicit Players"[2], who instigated the "[Nude and] Breast Freedom Parade" among other provocations, eventually got absorbed by the larger "How Berkeley Can You Be" parade,[3], then they were "asked to stay home" in 2007[4], and "How Berkeley Can You Be" was itself cancelled in 2009 after Berkeley jacked up the permit fees.[5][6] There was also a "Breasts not Bombs" group that protested at military installations, but I am not sure if they marched in the parade. (2008: "Asked by the Planet why people are allowed to walk nude in the How Berkeley Can You Be Parade year after year, [a police spokesman] responded only that 'I've never been to a How Berkeley Can You Be Parade.'"[7]) Anyway, I am sorry to say that I didn't find much more in reliable sources about the Breast Freedom Parade specifically. --Arxiloxos (talk) 16:57, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the interesting research. I notice that the website for the X-Plicit Players is all written in the past tense (e.g. "Who we were"). But the article under discussion here is written in the present tense, even though it was written in 2008, by which time the N&BF parade did not exist. Wonder why? --MelanieN (talk) 17:27, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to How Berkeley Can You Be or other suitably-named article. It sounds from the above as if the organising body of this event morphed into something else. Perhaps all the encyclopedic info can be summarised in a single article. -- Trevj (talk) 09:33, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Redirect to Nudity and protest. Other nudity movements are listed there. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 09:51, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 01:24, 12 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 23:51, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Not enough independent coverage to prove this event's notability. As an alternative, a mention in a possible How Berkeley Can You Be article and a redirect to there can be done, but since that article doesn't exist (yet), I don't believe this should either. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 03:29, 25 March 2012 (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.