Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Australian Cannonball Cup


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  CAPTAIN RAJU  (✉)   14:22, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

Australian Cannonball Cup

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:SPORTSEVENT. I was only able to find a single independent source. - MrX 10:59, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete: Insufficient coverage in reliable sources failing WP:SIGCOV. KGirlTrucker81 huh? what I've been doing 14:05, 30 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep: GNG is meet after receiving a notification of providing sources. KGirlTrucker81 huh? what I've been doing 11:21, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * This event attracted a large amount of media attention at the time (1984), with at least 50 newspaper articles that I know of, plus television coverage. Unfortunately there is very little information online because this happened in Australia over 30 years ago. It would be a shame for there to be no record of the event here on Wikipedia because of my inexperience in Wikipedia editing. You found a reference in the Victorian Parliament documents which is surely a very reliable source. The website I linked to has many scans of newspaper articles. Can you suggest how I can save this page?Johnaau (talk) 22:21, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
 * To keep the article you need to properly reference it, demonstrating notability as per WP:GNG. You should be able to do this by rewriting the article and using the 50 newspaper articles as in line references for each statement.  Aoziwe (talk) 13:58, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * PS Some sections would also be good, eg Race promotion, Race rules, Race running, Outcome. Aoziwe (talk) 14:02, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 01:45, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:44, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 04:44, 5 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep WP:NEXIST as per newspaper articles. Aoziwe (talk) 13:58, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep – Meets GNG. See:, , , , , etc. North America1000 03:24, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep - Extensive contemporary sources linked above.- MrX 10:43, 7 May 2017 (UTC)


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