Talk:Pittsburgh Folk Festival

Article Deletion
This Wikipedia article seems thoroughly unnecessary. The Pittsburgh Folk Festival, while a long-standing Pittsburgh tradition, doesn't appear to be notable enough to warrant its own article, as per WP:N. This is further supported by the fact that the entire article consists of two sentences and no external sources (other than the Festival's own website), and there hasn't been much effort to expand the article since its creation over seven years ago. As such, I am proposing this article be deleted, but if anyone has any objections to this, let's talk about it here. Thanks. Ilva (talk) 13:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * This Folk Festival has been going on every year for 60 years now, and I just attended it yesterday in Schenley Plaza. It seems to be alive and well, with plenty of interesting multicultural folk dancing, music, food, as well as arts and crafts, so I would say this event, which is an established Pittsburgh tradition, is definitely notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia.  I'll try to add some pictures and more information to the page and hopefully that will help "jazz it up" a little for the digitally-minded people of today. Leepaxton (talk) 21:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hello! First, Lee thank you for the endorsement and posting your lovely pictures! Yes, this year's festival was a terrific success!  I am the president of board of directors of the Pittsburgh Folk Festival and Director of the annual festival.  We partnered with the Pittsburgh Citiparks to have the event free to the public this year.  We were also one of City of Pittsburgh's events for its 200 Anniversary of incorporation while we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Pittsburgh Folk Festival. I honestly never thought to check wikipedia to see if the Pittsburgh Folk Festival was listed here!  I literally stumbled on this page.  I too will also begin to put together more information on the festival over the years.  BTW, we also have a very successful K-12 school program called around the world in One day. In addition, we do educational outreach to the public about diversity all year round.  I will put more info for this article together.  I do not however know how to submit the information. Any guidance would be appreciated.  Thank you and no, please don't delete this site! September 12, 2016. info@pghfolkfest.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:547:203:64B0:B17B:5AF3:4AD0:780A (talk) 18:10, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you for putting on a good, and free, folk festival in Schenley Plaza this year. Hopefully the festival will continue to be held in either Schenley Plaza or another public park in Pittsburgh from now on too.  Do you know if that is the plan for next year's festival?  As far as getting involved on Wikipedia, I certainly would like to encourage you to do that.  Since you are involved with the Pittsburgh Folk Festival, you could most likely add some good information to the article.  There are some pages on Wikipedia that I think are initially worth mentioning, like Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia, FAQ/Editing, Why create an account?, and Getting started, as well as Policies and guidelines and the List of guidelines.  Some people recommend using a sandbox to test one's edits before attempting to publish them on a page (here's the Sandbox tutorial.)  I often see reminders to people about keeping the articles informative and not have them read like advertisements.  Also, don't plagiarize other sources, of course, rewrite using different descriptive wording and always try to cite sources for the information.  For example, this article could use a citation for the folk festival being held annually since the year 1956.  As far as getting used to editing on Wikipedia, well, I got started on here some years back (in early 2008) when I saw some articles that were not filled with very good information.  I learned to edit pages by going to other pages that were filled with good information and good citations and clicking the "edit this page" button and examining the way those pages were edited together and how citations were used and how things were linked and so on, and then applied those types of ideas to the pages I was trying to improve.  Also, something else that is helpful to keep in mind, you can click "show preview" when you are editing a page and see how it looks before going forward with it, and once it looks all right then you can select "save changes."  So, I certainly encourage you to create an account and hopefully soon you will become a regular Wikipedian.  Oh, and when signing posts on a talk page like this, one is encouraged to use 4 tildes at the end so it will display like this: Leepaxton (talk) 21:56, 13 September 2016 (UTC)