Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Congressional App Challenge


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The result was no consensus‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 01:23, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Congressional App Challenge

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I can't find any significant coverage of this event as a whole, only primary sources from the event's website, so I don't think it's notable enough for Wikipedia. It's a series of local/state competitions for middle/high-schoolers in the US, under the umbrella of the US congress. There's of course going to be lots of local coverage of students who win the competition for their state/district, but that's not going to cut it here. I couldn't find anything in The New York Times or NPR about this competition, and if it was truly nationally significant you would think these news organisations would cover it. I just removed a huge chunk of the article listing state/district winners per massive BLP and promotional concerns, per this talk page thread; the fact that I had to do that, along with the relative lack of mainspace links to the page, doesn't help matters either. Neither does the fact that the article was created by a single-purpose account which has only made edits about the article subject. Graham87 (talk) 16:41, 20 February 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, CycloneYoris talk! 00:49, 28 February 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 01:18, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
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 * Keep: Regional coverage, but in every district in the country, this , are the first three I pull up from all over the US. I think we could build an article out of the multiple coverages. Oaktree b (talk) 00:29, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep: This is an official initiative of the United States House of Representatives. See members of Congress speaking on the Congressional App Challenge. 22.rk (talk) 01:10, 21 February 2024 (UTC) — 22.rk (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:29, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep: I think this is notable as it does get quite a lot of regional coverage, despite not getting a lot of nation-wide coverage. This challenge basically is covered in every part of the country, just generally not from a major news-publication just from a lot of smaller regional coverage. Randomdudewithinternet (talk) 18:10, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * , can you provide some examples of this coverage? 4.37.252.50 (talk) 21:40, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Here (I just did a google search for "Congressional App Challenge") :
 * https://localnews8.com/news/idaho-falls/2024/02/23/hillcrest-highschooler-receives-congressional-app-challenge-award/
 * https://www.cbs58.com/news/i-couldnt-believe-it-brookfield-academy-teen-wins-first-place-in-2023-congressional-app-challenge
 * https://www.eplocalnews.org/2024/02/13/eagle-ridge-ephs-students-win-top-spots-in-congressional-app-challenge/
 * https://www.independent.com/2024/02/08/dos-pueblos-high-school-student-wins-congressional-app-challenge-award-2023/
 * https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/traverse-city-students-announced-as-winners-of-congressional-app-challenge Randomdudewithinternet (talk) 05:12, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. None of these local stories are about the contest. Each is a local-interest story about some specific winner(s). They typically offer a rote statement that Representative So-and-so hosted the challenge and announced the winner, perhaps with a PR quote from the Rep. The rest of the story is about what the app is for, the winner's background, etc. Others are obvious churnalism or even explicitly tagged as press releases (such as this one listed as a source in one of the Keep comments above). We can't build an article about the contest from these passing references, which is why the actual article almost exclusively cites non-independent sources for its content. --RL0919 (talk) 00:34, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


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