Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle Creek's Field of Flight Entertainment Festival


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The result was Keep. Waltontalk 17:19, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Battle Creek's Field of Flight Entertainment Festival

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The last half of the article is just advertising, but is this a notable enough event for Wikipedia? Has it "received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources" per WP:N? 650l2520 10:39, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The article was written substantially as an ad, but it seems to be a recognized and substantial event. I have checked the Blue Angel's schedule and posted a link a the article; if the BA come, it is a significant event.  I trimmed out the time sensitive info. about the 2007 schedule which was advertising.  --Kevin Murray 12:53, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean up - as tagged.--Edtropolis 15:04, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and Cleanup —  If I wasn't absolutely sure sources could be found, I honestly would have said "delete" on this one. There is notability inserted in the article, however, but independent sources need to be found. *Cremepuff  222*  00:40, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 10:56, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge&rarr; Michigan. I considered closing this as 'keep' until I did some investigating.  A primary notability criterion is that a topic has been written on as the primary topic by independent parties; this appears not to be the case for this festival.  There is sufficient coverage to support its existence and some detail about it, but not sufficient for a stand-alone article.  I looked to see if there was a Culture in Michigan article or a culture section in Michigan and didn't find either; my suggestion is to create a 'culture' section in the Michigan article (subsuming the professional sports section, for instance) and report on major festivals there, until such time as the section becomes large enough to spawn an article of its own (culture in michigan). --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 15:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. Lacks actual articles written about it in secondary sources. All I could find in Google was what looked like echos of a press release. Since it appears to be a fairly large public event which actually exists, I'm marking it a 'weak' delete. I went ahead and did the article cleanup to remove the capital letters and the advertising tone. If someone could find coverage of this event in ballooning web sites, that might be enough for me to change my vote. (Surely aviation magazines would have some coverage too?) EdJohnston 16:44, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
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