Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kendal Calling


 * 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. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:21, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Kendal Calling

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Advert for non-notable local music gig. Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  19:52, 26 April 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 21:22, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 21:23, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete seems like an advertisement. --Fiftytwo thirty (talk) 00:14, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's not an advert and it's not about a 'local music gig'. It's an article about a fairly-major UK music festival. Plenty of Google News coverage exists. --Michig (talk) 07:20, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * comment - "fairly-major"???? According to the article, they hope to get up to 8,000 this year. That's the attendance for a weekend parish festival, not a major music event! -- Orange Mike   &#x007C;   Talk  00:02, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * But it isn't a "weekend parish festival", it's a music festival that has some major artists playing every year and is very much part of the major festival circuit, big enough to be included in the NME festival guide this year. It has a similar attendance to others such as the Green Man Festival and bigger than Summer Sundae, and . If it were a "weekend parish festival" it probably wouldn't be notable, but it isn't, so your argument is specious.--Michig (talk) 06:47, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry if I've offended you, Michig; but an attendance of maybe 8k people doesn't match with the concept of "major music festival" in my mind. That's all I was saying. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  15:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not one of the very big UK festivals, but I've seen it described as 'mid-sized' - I described it as "fairly-major", not "major". There are an awful lot of music festivals these days - I think notability (and 'major'-ness) is best judged by coverage received rather than size of attendance, and those that have big acts playing are more likely to be notable than those that don't, regardless of how many people go along. The ones that get lots of TV coverage such as Glastonbury, T in the Park, Reading and Leeds, etc. are obviously notable, and I would draw the notability line some way below the likes of Kendal Calling. My local "parish festival" is probably attended by a few thousand people each year, but despite that an event with craft stalls, dog shows, and a local band playing isn't likely to be of encyclopedic interest, a good indication being only limited coverage in local publications. Music festivals such as Kendal Calling receive much wider coverage.--Michig (talk) 15:35, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
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