Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Body of water cleaning


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Ad Orientem (talk) 00:18, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Body of water cleaning

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The article seems to have been created to publicise a competition rather than describe its subject. All the sources currently detail the competition, rather than the subject of the article; the content about the subject itself is a single, dictionary definition sentence, which doesn't appear to be supported by the sources (none of the ones I was able to check use the phrase 'Body of water cleaning'). It's possible that this is a notable subject, but I can't find any sources using the phrase that is the title of the article. Girth Summit  (blether) 12:47, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions.  ~Ruyaba~   {talk}  13:22, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.  ~Ruyaba~   {talk}  13:22, 16 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Author comment. The article, if you read it, describes two totally separate competitions. I hope we can learn from both of them. 4 of the 6 references, if you read them, are not related to the competitions. User:Barkeep49 reviewed the article.--Wyn.junior (talk) 17:43, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * You're right, apologies - it's describing two competitions, not one. I can't check all the sources unfortunately - I'm in the UK, and some of them block access from European countries for legal reasons. The ones I was able to look at were about the competitions; the others, from their titles, appear to be local news websites, so I don't think they're really authoritative on this subject. To build a proper article about this subject matter we really need some solid sources that discuss it in depth. Girth Summit  (blether)  10:47, 17 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Weak delete, at least based on the content we have. Let's call it WP:TNT. The topic of how to "clean" bodies of water (especially lakes) is very likely a notable one. I'm ... not confident that such an article should be at this title (and I'm really not sure what title it belongs at; sources do not seem to agree on terminology), but that's an editorial issue. What's more germane to AFD is that the stub we have here is essentially an advertisement for Erie Hack 2.0 and the George Barley Water Prize, neither of which strike me as notable. The idea that the primary purpose of this ecological restoration activity is to enable human recreation is also effectively unsupported by a broader review of sources. And once we remove the problematic text here, we have removed all the text. No prejudice to recreation (perhaps here, or perhaps under a different name) on the broader scientific and engineering challenges of lake water quality restoration. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:48, 16 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I can put the full context of the article in Water treatment. I really like clean rivers. This is very important information for Wikipedia.--Wyn.junior (talk) 18:38, 16 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete. Odd title and, while the topic itself is worthy of a standalone article, it isn't currently developed enough at this point. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:46, 16 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I find it odd how many people spend their time going against peoples' work instead of actually helping.--Wyn.junior (talk) 20:19, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I find it even odder that some people spend their time trying to dictate what others should work on, instead of fixing their own work. Clarityfiend (talk) 19:46, 17 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete as per Squeamish Ossifrage, sorry but this is covered (apart from the competitions) in Water_pollution, and related articles, alternatively the relevant bits should be incorporated in Lake_Erie and Lake Jesup. There is not enough for a standalone article with its odd title...Jokulhlaup (talk) 16:05, 17 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Per nom. This is a poorly formed article (solid TNT candidate). Britishfinance (talk) 20:36, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.