Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alnwick Fair


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The result was   merge to Alnwick. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 18:34, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Alnwick Fair

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Speedy declined. No assertion of notability. Wtshymanski (talk) 19:04, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep and wikify. The fair has been running for almost 40 years, and it will come back. The UK Age of Austerity has put kybosh on it, but it will be back no doubt. It is clearly notable. scope_creep (talk) 21:49, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - as it stands, no evidence of notability. Eddie.willers (talk) 22:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:51, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge to Alnwick. An event that's been running for that long warrants a mention somewhere. I don't have time right now to check just how much media coverage this event has, but it's certainly not a deletion candidate. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:42, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, or at the very least merge to Alnwick. The Northumberland Gazette has extensive coverage over the years: e.g.,, .  Also coverged here and here for examples of coverage outside of the Gazette.  -- Whpq (talk) 19:34, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment by nominator So does the Morden Corn and Apple Festival also get an article? It's been running since 1967 and gets extensive coverage from the local papers, too. Does every village annual sock hop constitute a topic for an encyclopedia? What's the threshold for notability for these things? Now, the Calgary Stampede (since 1923) makes some notability claims in the first paragraph ("world's largest rodeo", one million visitors, etc.) --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge to Alnwick, this is commonly the best solution of things only of local notability. It is a pity that the article has not been updated since before the then proposed 2007 event.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:41, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge content to Alnwick. As far as I can tell, the only coverage of the fair in non-local sources deals with one particular event (the fair being shut down), which does not meet the requirement for "significant" coverage in WP:GNG. SheepNotGoats (talk) 17:54, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
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