Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hillbilly jamboree


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 23:20, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Hillbilly jamboree

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Insufficient supporting material to indicate that this article is anything more than the imagining of its author. Although the concept of a jamboree as a major social and economic event sounds plausible for a rural society such as 19th century Appalachia, no source can be found to verify that such events actually occurred, or occurred with an sufficient regularity to be considered a "cultural icon". WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 12:34, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete unless reliable sources can be found for such jamborees with such an impact. My search didn't locate any though. Fram (talk) 12:41, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:00, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:01, 22 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Jamboree is US slang for a raucous revel and this is part of the hillbilly musical tradition.  As an example of a source, see Mountaineer Jamboree. Warden (talk) 16:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Any source for a "hillbilly jamboree" as an ancient tradition (there are a number of unrelated 20th century things individually called hillbilly jamboree, but that's not what this article is about) . Your source doesn't seem to have anything to do with e.g. "Often the location of the jamboree may have been previously unnamed, receiving a name only because of the occurrence of the jamboree. Thus the legacy of the jamboree lives on in the place names that honor them." or other claims in the article. Fram (talk) 16:17, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The detailed content of the article is a matter of ordinary editing, not deletion per WP:NOTCLEANUP and WP:IMPERFECT. For an example of a jamboree in a particular place which attracted substantial attention, see the Wheeling Jamboree. Warden (talk) 18:03, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
 * An example which actually has nothing to do with the article up for deletion. Note that we have an article about WWVA Jamboree, and that neither the article, nor your source, even mentions "hillbilly" or "hillbillie" (never mind that otherwise, they are hardly about the same thing as this article either). So you have a source that matches neither the title nor the content of the article we are discussing. "Not cleanup" and "Imperfect" (you forgot the more general "Preserve") are not applicable here. Fram (talk) 08:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete:No salvagable sourced content. There may be an article that can be written about jamborees, but this is not a suitable foundation.&mdash;Kww(talk) 21:58, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per Kww. Jamboree is a potential article, but what we've got here looks like WP:OR to me. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:36, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article is completely unsourced, and the sources suggested in this discussion don't appear to relate to the same topic. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:31, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
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