Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/IWA National Festival

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - kept - SimonP 14:50, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

IWA National Festival
This article was created back in January as an advertisement for a 2005 event sponsored by the Inland Waterways Association. It's since been classified as a stub, but nobody's added to it, and I don't think anybody will. The IWA is a noteworthy organization, but they sponsor a lot of events like this one, and I don't think the individual events are particularly notable. Isaac R 01:15, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Announcement for an event, news release. Wikipedia is not a place for announcements. Geogre 01:36, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete promo. JamesBurns 04:32, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep The current entry reads like a promotion. But 'The National', along with smaller festivals like Canalway Cavalcade in London, is an important part of the UK canal scene and has a long history. To vote to prevent future discussion of the event as a separate article would compromise discussion of issues related to announcements and consultations that tend to be made at the National, such as the formation of the Waterway Recovery Group as a result of discussions at the 1970 event.
 * It is likely that many future articles will want to reference the National without including a block of material relating to it in their body. For example any article relating to canal restoration in the UK will want to reference the formation of WRG and the campaigning aspect of the National, especially in the past when it was often held in inaccessible locations to promote boat traffic.
 * Material relating to UK canals is only just creeping into Wikipedia, despite a significant online presence. As far as I know there is only one person (not myself) adding significant content. To have to work around a ban on having a separate article on one of the key 'hub' aspects of the post war history of the canals can only discourage further activity.
 * Declaration of interests: I am an ordinary member of the IWA, an active WRG volunteer and a regular attendee at the National. This is being posted from a boat on the UK canals.--80.229.232.148 22:29, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * delete --MarSch 13:02, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Needs, not deletion. ··gracefool |&#9786; 03:41, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Sorry Brit, not encyclopedic. Advert/Promo to boot. Be glad to see articles on various canals and their history.  It's our history too. Fabartus 05:17, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Page has now been updated to something more suitable--80.229.232.148 16:29, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article has been much imporved. - SimonP 14:50, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)


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