Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darwin Forest


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The result was   merge to Darley Dale. NW ( Talk ) 19:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Darwin Forest

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Non-notable holiday park. The article started as an article assuming that there was in fact a real forest there and a Country park, which in the UK has a special meaning. I was asked to photograph this and my visit confirmed my web search that this is simply a holiday resort. It does have a 'David Bellamy Award' [ http://www.ukparks.com/bellamy.asp] as do hundred of other parks (447 it seems). Winners of the award are told "Your award is a fantastic marketing tool, and David Bellamy is more than happy for you to use his endorsement to publicise your park far and wide. In fact, he is keen for you to do so… because you will then be encouraging more people to support the businesses which support the environment. There is another very sound commercial reason for publicising your award to the full… because no matter whether or not your potential residents have any interest in the natural world, they will recognise David Bellamy as a popular figure made famous by television… and it's this person who is now saying to them: "Here is a residential park which I can really recommend to you!"". Dougweller (talk) 16:00, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

*Comment As the creator of the article, the nominator makes a good point and I therefore will not object to this article being deleted.--Sky Attacker   Here comes the bird!  20:18, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 *  Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  -- – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:42, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete, but consider mentioning in an article of a nearby place. As nominator says, the David Bellamy Gold Award applies to a lot of parks, and normally we'd expect an award on one per year or thereabouts to qualify as notability. The article in the Telegraph is better, but I'd probably want to see quite a few more articles like that before keeping the article. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 07:32, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge a pruned version to Darley Dale, the nearest village for which we have an article. That article also covers Two Dales, which would be nearer.  This can hardly be notable enough to warrant it having an article of its own (despite the award), but facilities of this kind can conveniently be included in articles on villages and other localities.  Peterkingiron (talk) 14:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge changed from fine to see it get deleted to merge but not delete per Peterkingiron.--Sky Attacker   Here comes the bird!  03:01, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
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