Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dating Violence Awareness Week


 * 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. Will userfy upon request for the purposes of merging useful information. S warm  ♠  03:42, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

Dating Violence Awareness Week

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I found absolutely nothing to suggest improvement, there's no good move target and there haven't been any significant edits since the beginning in March 2009. SwisterTwister  talk  21:40, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment: The article currently focuses solely on the awareness week in Singapore, but this is also recognized in the US. From Emily Fund: "In 2008, the US Senate unanimously apporoved S. Res. 710 declaring the first week of February as "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week," and on January 25, 2010, the Senate expanded the observance by declaring the month of February as "National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month" (S. Res. 373)." gobonobo  + c 23:02, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete most of this article is a WP:CONTENTFORK of Dating abuse. A mention of these "awareness weeks" may be made there. Kraxler (talk) 00:35, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The article has been edited to completely change the scope and actual content, so I withdraw my !vote. Kraxler (talk) 18:11, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Re-evaluating what the article looks like now, and apparently nothing more is coming, the article fails WP:NEVENT, with special mention of WP:GEOSCOPE. It was a local one-time event without WP:LASTING impact. Kraxler (talk) 17:32, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 02:51, 29 August 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete or merge to Dating abuse.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:48, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge to Dating abuse. As points out, there are other such events/weeks/months in other countries, but I don't see that most of them are actually connected beyond their goals. From the looks of it, the dating abuse article needs significant work, and could easily sustain an advocacy or similar section. A selective merge here could be a fine start to that section. &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 18:04, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ☮ JAaron95  Talk  06:13, 5 September 2015 (UTC) Keep There are plenty of news articles and websites covering this in the US. The article can be significantly improved and quite easily with little effort. As for the AfD, the nominator is asking for a delete based on an editing issue and obviously did not do a basic search on the term. The nominator claims there is no info for improvement. It's a week in February recognized in Texas, Ohio and other states... it seems that it may have been federally recognized. Now if we're looking at it as a singapore-only event, it still may be notable! Not finding information on the web doesn't mean it's not important... much info about Singapore news is available only thru lexis nexus. In addition the amount of information I just turned up on Google alone should be enough to warrant its own article... esp if the scope is global. Also... the lack of improvement shouldn't warrant an AfD. Be bold and fix the article yourself or bring it to the attention of active interested WikiProjects. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 12:53, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * We already have an article on Dating abuse. It's not necessary, and fails the notability guidelines, to have a separate article on an "awareness week". Kraxler (talk) 16:18, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * If there are enough independent sources it doesn't fail notability. An awareness week can be notable. There seem to be a lot of articles on the topic in the US. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 22:54, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
 * This article is about an awareness week in Singapore, and has a single source from Singapore. If you want to write an article about several awareness weeks in different places, go right ahead, and see whether it passes AfD. We are concerned now with this article, as is. Kraxler (talk) 03:00, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * AfD should be used if there is no way to improve an article. As I've pointed out, there are several good ways to do so. AfD doesn't just mean looking at the article as it is now; articles may still be notable even if they do not contain the relevant existing information in them. See: WP:NEXIST The article needs copyedit. This should have taken place on the talk page of the article, not gone to AfD. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 03:59, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Feel free to improve the article, it's allowed during AfD, but please do address the WP:CONTENTFORK problem. Also, stand-alone notability of this "event" has not been shown yet. Kraxler (talk) 15:43, 8 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep: These events are distinct from the general concept of dating abuse; they reflect activism to address the problem.  Yes, the article needs work, but deletion is not the answer.  This is a women's event in Singapore, which in and of itself is remarkable.  Clear evidence of third-party coverage, and no doubt more out there if anyone can address the language barrier.  Frankly, I'm kind of offended by Kraxler's tone that implies that this is an irrelevant event of no consequence.  We have a lot of problems with systemic bias on wikipedia and this dismissive tone toward both women's issues and an Asian topic suggests this is a factor to be considered.   Montanabw (talk)  02:34, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I wish !voters would stick to the issue, instead of accusing others of bad faith. My !vote was cast when the article lokked like this. Megalibrarygirl has edited it in the meanwhile, but needed to be reminded that speculating about what an article could look like is not equivalent to actually making an article show its notability and stand-alone usefulness. Kraxler (talk) 17:25, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Notability doesn't depend on what is in the article at all. This is something that is often overlooked in AfD discussions. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 02:11, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Notability depends on being shown. In this case, the article was a content fork. Content forks are usually deleted for reasons other than notability. Please don't mix up apples and oranges. Kraxler (talk) 18:08, 12 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep - per WP:GNG and WP:CRIME.--BabbaQ (talk) 05:57, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge See WP:CONTENTFORK! This issue needs to be solved before we look at notability and references. MrWooHoo (talk) 01:59, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Local events of this sort are not worth merging to the general article, towards which it makes no contribution whatsoever. This is essentially a PR for the event, and there's a good case for deleting it as G11.   DGG ( talk ) 03:59, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete This doesn't even approach the notability criteria for a stand-alone article. It is a purely local event, written purely to promote the first (and only?) one in Singapore in 2009. In case no one has noticed, there is no mention out there (or in the article) of any further such weeks in Singapore, despite the claim in the article that it is an "annual event". I've done a pretty thorough search, but if anyone finds sources indicating that it has been held in Singapore and received received significant coverage in the ensuing years, I'd be happy to change my mind. A brief summary, minus the padding can be added to Teen dating violence, which as it is, is tagged (and rightly so) as not representing a worldwide view of the subject. That atrociously organized article, full of original research and written like an essay, gives massively undue weight to the US, with two lines about the UK, one line about Canada and... er... that's it. Voceditenore (talk) 17:21, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
 * On a related note, in Singapore "Dating Violence Awareness Week" was the second week in February. In the US, "Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week" is apparently the first week in February, and Chicago seems to have organized its own version of "Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week" for the third week October. A separate article on Dating violence awareness with an international scope might be possible, but that's not what this article is (or even can be, given its title). Voceditenore (talk) 18:05, 14 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. At this point we have verifiability without notability. Even if one evaluates it as a fork, it should be merged back to its parent, but as has been mentioned, this non-notable content is of no benefit there. Xymmax  So let it be written   So let it be done  00:48, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 *  Delete . I can find no references to support this (the event in Singapore) beyond the 2009 launch. If such references exist in other languages, maybe the route to take is to create this article in the appropriate language version of Wikipedia, then have it translated to English if it then meets our notability requirements. I would also support a move to something like Dating violence awareness/advocacy as previously suggested, with a more global view, which I would consider to be a more encylopaedic approach; or merge this into Dating abuse with the option of spinning it out later to a seperate article if it becomes too unwieldy.Derek Andrews (talk) 11:20, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Incubate - an option I wasn't aware of until now, per WP:ATD-I. It would seem to me to be a way to enable those who see potential in an article of some nature on this topic to work on it without threat of deletion.Derek Andrews (talk) 12:32, 16 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete The appropriate place for almost all "awareness weeks" is a brief mention in the topic article, in this case Dating abuse.  There is nothing much to say about the week, except possible lists of misc. dates.  See WP:NOT. There is a lot to say about the topic, and that article is where it should be said. --Bejnar (talk) 21:05, 16 September 2015 (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.