Talk:Zombie Pub Crawl

Notability
I am not sure that this article is sufficiently notable. It concerns a local event and this article seems to be a venue for promotion. Please reply if you have an opinion. Please note on both this talk page and my talk page as well. Cheers V. Joe (talk) 01:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


 * First, I am not a promoter (the event, incidentally is always free, and not really commercial--although I have never attended it). I created this page because I have read about this event for years, and it seems unbelievable that this cult event has no wikipedia page yet. The event has attained cult status in a city of several million people, and is known regionally and elsewhere to many more; but beyond that, it has played at least a partial role in inspiring similar pop cultural events in other cities nationwide (see article links). That alone should make it notable enough. Just because it is of more interest to people in or near Minnesota than to others doesn't detract from the fact that it is of some (albeit small) relevance and interest in popular culture nationally.


 * Perhaps more importantly, it meets the criteria of notability laid out in the guidelines since it is mentioned in multiple reliable sources, some of which I have already included in the article (I haven't yet had time to add more, I just wanted to get the article started, not spend my weekend defending it). This event has been explored in articles in at least 3 or 4 significant newspapers, a number of web publications, and who knows how many blogs. It is related to, though distinct from the larger Zombie Walk article--which seems to have been deemed notable enough. As I say, even if you don't think it is sufficiently notable (which for the reasons I just stated, I would argue it is) this article needs to stay for at least six months to a year so it can be discovered by other editors, have time to establish itself and be improved by other editors. Putting new articles such as this one of a more local flavor--but which still have some other significance--in front of a firing squad before they get a chance to become established and allow editors to further illuminate their relevance is a very slippery slope.


 * Summary: The article is of an small but nonetheless real importance local to regional (arguably national) areas of pop culture. It meets notability criteria. The subject has grown organically into a sufficient pop cultural relevance with at least tenuous national influence. To delete such an article right off the bat, or put it on automatic deletion review track when it has met notability and other criteria is a bad idea. Cheers. AdRem (talk) 02:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * ==Fair enough== V. Joe (talk) 16:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Pictures
If anyone has a good picture of the event, it would be great if you could upload it.AdRem (talk) 19:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)