Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gay Blue Jeans Day


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The result was   keep. Icewedge (talk) 04:52, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Gay Blue Jeans Day

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Delete. I see some press releases and mentions on a few university websites, but I do not see any significant coverage of this day being observed by any kind of reliable third party publications. JBsupreme (talk) 21:34, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, some of the sources are down and none of them explain this topic's notability. Sorafune   +1  22:18, 18 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep A Google search of the topic gives 15,000 hits. Many are University groups discussing their local celebration of the day. The protest was an important early tactic. That it refers to a Gay rights protest leads me to be doubly reluctant to delete the article under 'not censored'.

The protest is a historical event more than a current one. So unsuprisingly, those organizations that still carry it on are the only ones to report it. At the time there certainly were many references in third party publications. Of course, this was before the internet, and it was a news event.

It seems better to keep the article and provide some such sources if they're needed. For example, this [May 7 1981 discussion in the Cornell Daily Sun]. This paper has a 'history' column that mentions the protest [Outrider vol 13] I'm afraid I don't have a stack of college papers from the mid 1980's available at the moment, but I suppose I could go find some.

I believe this meets the criteria of 'Significant Coverage' (it's the focus of the article in many cases) 'Reliable' (commercial publishers) secondary sources (the book mention, for instance) 'independent of the subject' (it's easy to find negative references, and certainly the scholarly references should count)

The page is linked (to Gay_rights_in_the_United_States).

The protest was important enough that the LGBT Historical Archive in San Francisco included several flyers for it in a public display of artifacts of the LGBT rights movement.

The protest is mentioned in 8 different books in the Google books collection, for example

Finally, we should look at the 'would this be in a paper encyclopedia?', to which I have to answer yes. The article seems like something a student or researcher of LGBT history would find useful.

I admit the article has problems. It seems a better use of editor's energy to improve the article than to delete it.

20:54, 19 January 2010 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anniepoo (talk • contribs)


 * Keep. I had never heard of it so was dubious ... but there's a few books with the exact phrase and and over 20 GNews hits for a poorly named campaign. Tweaking the search phrase quickly doubles those results. If this is a continuous annual campaign it would be likely the longest running annual non-parade event for LGBT awareness. -- Banj e  b oi   22:54, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Benjiboi. Agree that sources exist, and notability - while a bit thin, given the history - is still there. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 14:55, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep All the Google news results are for Penn State University. The Google book search results show this is notable.  "Gay people, sex, and the media" and other books mention it.   D r e a m Focus  13:19, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Enough coverage to establish notability. Defender of torch (talk) 02:35, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
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