Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Children's Food Festival


 * 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 merge to Earth Trust as an alternative to deletion. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:13, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Children's Food Festival

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Fails WP:GEOSCOPE and WP:ROUTINE - the local-scale event has only happened twice, and the article sourcing is from local publications only (announcing the event) with the exception of a promotional placed article by the organisers in the bbc website (e.g. not editorially driven by a reporter). Article creator may be a connected contributor (part of Earth Trust) based on editing history. Lizthegrey (talk) 20:17, 14 February 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:33, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Events and England. Lizthegrey (talk) 20:17, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Local coverage is fine for a food festival, and a food festival specifically aimed at children is the opposite of WP:ROUTINE Eastmain (talk • contribs) 01:42, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * What would your thoughts be on compromising with a merger of the stub content that's currently there, into Earth Trust instead? Lizthegrey (talk) 07:20, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NOTNEWS - According to WP:NOTNEWS, "While news coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion. For example, routine news coverage of ... events..., while sometimes useful, is not by itself a sufficient basis for inclusion of the subject of that coverage." Since the Chidren's Food Festival has only taken place twice, once in 2007 and once in 2009, and the Wikipedia page on the event does not include specific details about the event besides when the event took place and the festival director's thoughts on the event, the Wikipedia page is not providing readers with additional content or value and should be deleted unless additional content from this article (Oxfordshire Children's Food Festival) about the first event that took place can be added to the Wikipedia page. This page should only be kept if there is sufficient content to add two additional sections to the Wikipedia page, one for each event date. Currently, the page only includes one section with a brief description of the events under which the References are listed. --Rollercoaster2001 (talk) 21:37, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete. Fails WP:NTEMP - According to WP:NTEMP, "Notability is not temporary; once a topic has been the subject of 'significant coverage' in accordance with the general notability guideline, it does not need to have ongoing coverage." There are very few sources of coverage on this event, and it is not something that will receive increased coverage because the event only happened twice over ten years ago. Googa8 (talk) 23:37, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge to Earth Trust as suggested above. The coverage is too slim for a standalone article, but would be a valuable two sentences on the Earth Trust article since that part of the Earth Trust article is underdeveloped. ~ L 🌸  (talk) 03:06, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge. I also agree that merging this article to the Earth Trust would be the best decision. There are reliable sources, but it isn't notable enough to be a standalone article. Especially because it doesn't follow the guidelines of WP:NTEMP "Notability is not temporary". The event occurred two times, in 2007 and 2009, and it hasn't been updated ever since so the article is not likely to gain coverage in the future. However, it would be a useful detail to the event host's wikipedia, Earth Trust. Username1736 (talk) 03:58, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Just FYI, NTEMP is usually understood differently from how you are using it here. The idea with "notability is not temporary" is that if something got a whole lot of newspaper coverage in, say, 1850, but it has been forgotten since then, it is still considered notable today because there's no expiration date on coverage. For the idea that an event should have some kind of lasting impact to be notable (i.e., the idea that temporary events are not notable), you may be thinking of WP:LASTING? ~ L 🌸  (talk) 03:23, 25 February 2023 (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.