Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Emerald Awards


 * 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. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  20:23, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Emerald Awards

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No substantial coverage in third-party sources to satisfy WP:ORG. Article was created and substantially edited by WP:COI editors. Drm310 🍁 (talk) 22:14, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Alberta-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 10:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete All references within article are based on the Awards' own website. The awards also don't seem to be specifically significant enough - no reliable 3rd party references showing up in a couple of minutes of searching online. Nosebagbear (talk) 11:32, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Calls for nomination and the granting of awards occasionally warrant brief mentions in local media. And, of course, the various recipients are quick to tout their recognition. But I've actually been surprised at how little coverage or direct discussion of the awards themselves--or the Alberta Emerald Foundation that awards them--seems to exist in reliable sources. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:45, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Every award that exists is not automatically entitled to have a Wikipedia article just because its existence is technically verifiable in its own self-published content about itself — it has to be the subject of enough reliable source coverage in media to clear WP:GNG and WP:ORGDEPTH. But the sources here are of the former type, not the latter, so they're just not cutting it at all. Bearcat (talk) 15:59, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * a Proquest news archive search makes it apparent that "Emerald Award is a name used for prizes given by several cities, including Clarksville, Tennessee (for civic participation) and Eugene Oregon (for enviromentalism.)  This one gets SIGCOV  in the Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald and in what appears to be every other newspaper in Alberta. Tehre have even been controversies (well, curmudgeonly environmental activists) Emerald Award finalist pulls name from awards''.  A solid article could be written, using reliable, secondary sources.   given that Nom in incorrect in incorrect in their assertions  there are "No substantial coverage in third-party sources" and that all 3 editors weighing in above are making assertions that no secondary sources or, in one case, that all of the secondary sources are "brief mentions in local media" I recommend that the  closing editor roll this one over for a week. E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:43, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete- there is not enough coverage to establish notability. An article in the local section of the local newspaper is not enough and the fact that there are other awards with the same name elsewhere is completely irrelevant.--Rusf10 (talk) 12:23, 17 April 2018 (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.