Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dexfest Music Festival


 * 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) 10:12, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Dexfest Music Festival

 * – ( View AfD View log  •  )

Minor music festival of questionable notibility. Majority of sources fail WP:RS nad WP:V (MySpace, other wikis, etc), or are primary sources. Only on source could be considered good, but that appears to be a local advance press-release based notice, not a critical review or proper story on the actual festival. Contested PROD. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 23:44, 27 September 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Tennessee-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:37, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. I deprodded it and found some cites.  I leave it up to you folks to decide if the cites are good enough. Bearian (talk) 22:52, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete- the sourcing is very poor on this article. The majority of the cites are to the festival's home page, two refer to electronica music in general and don't mention the subject (why is that section even in there???). There's really only one source I would regard as independent, relevant and reliable and even that is just a bare announcement in the local newspaper. I'd need to see more before I'd be convinced that this is notable. Reyk  YO!  19:49, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Delete - Three cheers for Dexter, for managing to turn his birthday party into an annual event, charge $85 for a ticket, and get a blurb about it printed in the metro area newspaper. However, that one news item and a few event listings on music websites are not sufficient to cause this event to pass WP:GNG, and the Wikipedia article itself is nothing more than a promotional piece. If this event takes off in the future, it might become notable, but it's not there yet. --Orlady (talk) 04:27, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep: Per Bearian. Notable - Ret.Prof (talk) 22:24, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Bare assertions without evidence are unlikely to be given much weight by the closing admin. Can you show anything that would support the notability of this event, and do you have a response to the finding of Orlady and myself that the "coverage" is neither independent nor substantial? Reyk  YO!  06:06, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. The sources don't do it for me, I'm afraid. Without anything more than one local news source the article is liable to be promotional, as it so rampantly is right now ("The event boasts state of art...", "new and unique digital meditation experience...", "Dexfest goes green...."). --Mkativerata (talk) 19:47, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Did both a google web and news search and found nothing useful for satisfying WP:N. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 02:05, 11 October 2010 (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.