Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hobo Day


 * 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   no consensus.  Sandstein  20:58, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Hobo Day

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Not notable event. Possible original research. Spiesr (talk) 15:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC) 
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Dakota-related deletion discussions.   —Spiesr (talk) 15:25, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Cirt (talk) 04:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep and improve to remove OR; pieces of OR alone is not subject for deletion. I don't see problems with WP:GNG. Spiesr: as a representative of SD you probably know better about the subject; if so, speak up, state specific arguments. NVO (talk) 06:06, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete there is nothing to set this apart from other homecomings that isn't WP:SCHOOL. Also this is very easily confused with the National Hobo Convention, which also refers to itself as "hobo day." Potatoswatter (talk) 07:54, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The latter is a rationale for disambiguation, not for deletion. Uncle G (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge or weak delete Remove OR and it might be an okay article (see the SDSU website), but it seems like a school homecoming type thing. It's also not mentioned on the South Dakota State University page.  Either delete or merge, but don't keep. DavidWS (talk) 13:30, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It is mentioned, at South Dakota State University, which in fact links to this article, and was very probably the redlink that encouraged the creation of this article in the first place. Uncle G (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see some justification for the assertions of original research. Which editors have actually read the cited source, the book by Dunkle, and compared what it says to what the article says?  I've not read it, but I've read all of the other cited sources, and nothing in the article leaps out at me for being overtly contradictory to what they say.  I've also read some people quoting bits and pieces from Dunkle here and there, and what's quoted seems to support this content, too.  The claim that this is original research seems to be ill-founded. Uncle G (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep The article provides numerous reliable and verifiable sources to support the claim of notability. This search for "Hobo Day" in Google News Archive turns up 42 reliable sources to expand the article and reference the term. Alansohn (talk) 21:05, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge into one of the pages for the University. This sort of material is not appropriate for a separate article. Not everything sourced is notable., DGG (talk) 23:48, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete if a reliable source can be found, merge with South Dakota State article.Bali ultimate (talk) 22:46, 30 October 2008 (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.