Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Children's Theatre of Charlotte


 * 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.  Sandstein  11:07, 26 May 2018 (UTC)

Children's Theatre of Charlotte

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This article doesn't seem to satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements. I checked the previous deletion discussion, and most of what is there to support the "keep" side is either [now] dead links or is Google hits counts, which are not defacto evidence of notability. A few "keep" voters emphasized the number of years the theater has been around-- this is an argument to avoid in a deletion discussion.

The references in the article as it stands now appear to be thin at best. The "Medallion" award from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America is a non-notable award that comes from a non-notable organization; the ref offered to support the claim that this group ranks in the "top five" children's theatres in the country (in terms of audience attendance) is a dead link (not that audience attendance by itself is necessarily a good measure of notability anyway); the claim of having received "accolades on the national, state and local levels" has no citation for these various other awards. The remainder of the references appear to be mentions in passing-- I did not find substantive non-trivial discussion of the theatre in reliable independent published sources. Mention, yes; discussion, not so much. I also did a search for other Children's Theatre groups that have articles on Wikipedia: there weren't any. Maybe the one group we do have an article on isn't warranted either? A loose noose (talk) 02:41, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: the prior AfD discussion was at Articles for deletion/Children's Theater of Charlotte and was closed as "keep" on 5 June 2009. --Arxiloxos (talk) 04:52, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Theatre-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:57, 15 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Arxiloxos (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   06:42, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Since 2009 we have realized that most children's theatres are not notable, along with many other things. Having stand alone articles on every organization ever is not doable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:28, 23 May 2018 (UTC)


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