Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Edinburgh Fringe venues


 * 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   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:05, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

List of Edinburgh Fringe venues

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 * delete. This list cannot be made encyclopaedic:most of the venues listed or which may be listed are not notable, and the list is a magnet for adding more non-notable venues. Wikipedia is not a directory. At present none of the entries is referenced on the page, only five have their own articles and only one of those five articles has any references. ColinFine (talk) 08:17, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Scotland-related deletion discussions.  —ColinFine (talk) 08:17, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions.  —ColinFine (talk) 08:17, 10 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Declaration of potential COI:I am the proposer of this deletion, and also a director of one of the venues listed on the page. I hope it is clear that I am proposing this as a Wikipedia editor, not as director (since I would presumably argue for keeping the list in that case). I suggested this deletion on the talk page more than two weeks ago, and there have been no responses. --ColinFine (talk) 08:17, 10 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete The Talk page indicates that this page was created as a honeypot to distract publicity-seeking edits from the main Edinburgh Festival Fringe each August - a reasonable aim in itself but best dealt with by resolutely reversing such edits as COI and non-notable. As Colin says in Talk:List_of_Edinburgh_Fringe_venues, this list article doesn't really work as a WP page (and there are plenty of more appropriate listing media out there during the Fringe). AllyD (talk) 19:34, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete A list of non-notable venues. Many fringe venues only come into existence for a few weeks in August, and many others appear or disappear each year. Agree with AllyD that acting as a "honeypot" is not a good enough reason to have his article. Jonathan Oldenbuck (talk) 11:19, 11 March 2010 (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.