Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ringvaart Regatta

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The result was no consensus. Ron Ritzman (talk) 12:07, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ringvaart Regatta[edit]

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A non-notable rowing event in the Netherlands. A Google News search gives nothing but trivial mentions, none of them discussing the actual event. Drmies (talk) 03:10, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Uncertain Some coverage found [1] but almost all of it is in Dutch. Seems like this regatta might be notable because of its unusual length. It attracts more than 100 crews [2] from all over Europe and as far away as California. I wish somebody would find a way to document this as notable. --MelanieN (talk) 20:15, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Drmies, why are you using Google News to establish notability? So if some article contents are not mentioned in Google News, which has only been getting G7 coverage since 2003 really, and western coverage since 2004/05, then it's not notable. That's a shockingly crummy way of establishing notability, and if thats your primary tenet for notifying articles for AfD, you should really stop now. scope_creep (talk) 18:34, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Scopecreep, if you have some better way of searching for notability, please share it with us - instead of merely criticizing the nominator. Google News is one of the standard ways that we all search for indications of notability - along with Google Books and other sources. And if you have some indication that this regatta is notable, I'd like to see it. As I said above, I would love to find an excuse to keep this page. --MelanieN (talk) 15:52, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Wifione _.......^{Leave a message} 14:57, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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