Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Award


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The result was   delete. Arguments for this article's retention have no basis in policy. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 22:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Adam Award

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Not clear that an award given to the best in class at one Universtiy meets WP:GNG Gaff (talk) 20:15, 22 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  B E C K Y S A Y L E S  20:59, 22 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep - `It is the most prestigious creative writing course in New Zealand. A Booker prize winner has won it, and many of the other winners should be getting their own Wikipedia pages soon. If this page survives the afd I will expand it. Haminoon (talk) 11:02, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep - the steady stream of hits means readers are searching for it so it should be there (but I did think it was an art award:)) Eddaido (talk) 01:52, 29 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - Fails SIGCOV. No indication that this has received widespread coverage in independent sources. DerbyCountyinNZ  (Talk Contribs) 04:11, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete. "It is the most prestigious creative writing course in New Zealand." It wouldn't matter if it was the most prestigious course in the world. Nobody pays any attention to course awards. Fails WP:GNG totally. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:46, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mr.Z-man 04:28, 3 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - in general, we don't even have articles for university-wide medals or awards. Where we do, it's because they are genuinely notable (per significant coverage in multiple reliable sources). Looking through the list of recipients, I don't think many more of them are notable by our standards.  St ★ lwart 1 1 1 05:45, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. I was able to find brief mentions of this award here and there, but it's almost solely a trivial mention in articles about award winners who went on to gain coverage for other awards or accomplishments. In other words, there isn't anything out there that focuses on the award itself. These sort of passing mentions are pretty routine, as most newspapers will list almost anything that a person has been awarded, be it a college award or a Bronze Swimming Certificate. Yes, some of the people have gone on to accomplish great things, but notability for later accomplishments does not translate into notability for this specific award, as notability is WP:NOTINHERITED by later accomplishments or by the college itself being notable. As for the amount of hits on the article, that doesn't count towards notability either. It means that people may have found it useful, but being useful does not count towards notability either. (Also, it could be that the large amount of hits were just from people coming in from AfD or from people who came to the page by mistake, so we can't guarantee that they came in there specifically to read about that award.) This could maybe be merged into the main article for the college, but I can't really find enough coverage to merit that either and it would potentially put undue weight upon an award given to a very specific group of students in a specific degree program and not students from the college as a whole. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   05:39, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
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