Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally


 * 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) 07:11, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Hells Canyon Motorcycle Rally

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Few reliable sources to back up the notability of a minor motorcycle rally. I've tried to de-advertise it and remove some of the enthusiastic tone to it, but here's what the sources say, and a remark on the sources:
 * Bend Weekly, a neighborhood blog masquerading as a reliable source (published by DCEI), discusses many of the crashes that happened one year.
 * The Baker City Herald is a paper for a city of 10,000 in a county of nearly 17,000. Probably a decently reliable source, but the articles ("http://www.bakercityherald.com/Local-News/Camping-motorcyclists-raise-money-for-BHS-sports", "Police report few problems with rally") don't really discuss the rally in depth, just discuss it in passing (not surprising, if the attendance really is 5000, that's a significant size compared to the size of the county).
 * The Oregonian is cited with a title of "Two still critical after rash of motorcycle accidents". A (offline) search of the Oregonian database doesn't bring up this article. It does bring up two references in the travel section in a listing of upcoming events, similar to a gig listing. In any case, even assuming good faith that the article exists, the title indicates it is also talking about the crashes, not the rally.
 * A reference to the US Geological Survey is only included to discuss Hells Canyon, not the rally.
 * pdxbiker.com references an article written by the event creator. It's a well-done blog, but still just a blog.

In short, there are few reliable sources discussing the event other than to indicate that it exists. Because of this, it fails WP:SIGCOV. tedder (talk) 21:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oregon-related deletion discussions.  -- tedder (talk) 21:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete This is an unexceptional motorcycle rally that draws only 5,000 riders; there are hundreds of similar events around the country. With some exceptions that deserve more scrutiny, Category:Motorcycle rallies in the United States mostly contains events that draw from tens to hundreds of thousands of people -- and most importantly for us, get overage in national media, not local papers.  Needs more than just WP:ROUTINE event coverage, which I couldn't find after searching in Google, ProQuest and General OneFile. --Dbratland (talk) 03:57, 9 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete This may be more self promotion of the event for the purpose of search engine placement.Virillion (talk) 03:29, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
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