Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dance Bear-a-Thon


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 18:53, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Dance Bear-a-Thon

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Non-notable local charity event held yearly since 2007. Deleted after PROD in April 2009. No indication notability has increased in past 5 months. L0b0t (talk) 23:09, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: On the talk page, the author wrote, I object to the proposed deletion of this article, at least on the grounds that it describes a "nonnotable campus event". Quite to the contrary, as a student at Missouri State University, I have observed that Dance Bear-a-Thon has grown in a very short amount of time to be equal in stature to other significant campus organizations, most notably Relay for Life; naturally, this is merely my opinion, but I know I am not the only one who perceives Dance Bear-a-Thon to be an important element of Missouri State University, particularly because it so richly exemplifies the university's public affairs mission. I also feel that this article hardly differs from other Wikipedia articles devoted to informing the general public about the nature of other Dance Marathon events at other universities and colleges; I mention this because I know that other users have voiced support for this article in its past incarnations, though with the returning argument that the articles' neutrality is in question.  I thus decided to attempt this more objective article; I encourage anyone who feels its objectivity is in question to research Dance Bear-a-Thon and make appropriate changes.TheSherwinator (talk) 05:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC) Cunard (talk) 23:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:ORG. I could not uncover reliable sources on Google and Google News Archive. Cunard (talk) 23:24, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Instead of deleting the article, I request that the closing admin move the article to User:TheSherwinator/Dance Bear-a-Thon per this user's request below. Cunard (talk) 03:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you both for your comments and feedback. After reviewing WK:0RG, I agree that under such guidelines Dance Bear-A-Thon fails the notable organizations test; however, I'd like to also point out the organization is still quite new, and is only now truly reaching out into the Springfield community (and thus has not yet had much reason to be covered by any independent news sources)  I wonder if there might be a way for the article, therefore, to perhaps be simply put aside or archived until a later time when it would be more relevant.  Is such an action possible?  I'm (as you have seen) a new user to Wikipedia and am still not familiar with all of the possibilities for handling new articles. TheSherwinator (talk) 05:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, the article can be userfied. When this organization is written about in multiple, third-party reliable sources, the article can be moved back to the article space. Cunard (talk) 03:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Userfy and fix. Bearian (talk) 00:54, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not a single news article or other remotely reliable source about this minor fundraising event, and suggesting that moving a such vastly overly detailed unsourced article to a user space indicates the article as is may actually soon be able to achieve notability once a source can be found and/or indefinitely exist/expand in a vacuum outside the reach of other editors or Wikipedia standards. Flowanda | Talk 05:20, 13 September 2009 (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.