Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Lennon Songwriting Contest


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:05, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

John Lennon Songwriting Contest

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Poorly sourced article, with some advertorial undertones, about a songwriting competition. Being named after somebody famous is not in and of itself a notability pass for an award, but this isn't sourced well enough to actually clear WP:GNG or WP:ORGDEPTH -- of the six footnoted references here, three are primary sources (its own self-published website, a press release on the self-published website of one of its corporate sponsors, and a mention on the "my awards" page of the self-published website of a non-notable past winner); one is a brief namecheck of its existence in an article that's about another non-notable past winner in his own hometown newspaper; one is the mere caption to a photograph of yet another non-notable winner; and one is a glancing namecheck of its existence in an article about the general concept of songwriting competitions. And the "further reading" link is to a blog, so it's not bolstering notability either. As always, every music award is not automatically entitled to have an article just because it exists -- it has to be the subject of enough reliable source media coverage about it to clear GNG, but none of the sources here are showing that at all. Bearcat (talk) 16:29, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. - Morphenniel (talk) 18:44, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete Nom put it best. Spirit of INVALIDBIO applies. I believe there was a specific policy for that, but cannot remember it off the top of my head. South Nashua (talk) 18:35, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
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