Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Love Invasion


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The result was   withdrawn in favour of a redirect to the better sourced article Lovebot. Bearcat (talk) 07:40, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

Love Invasion

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As bizarre as this article is going to sound to the uninitiated, I actually do know what it's about, as I live in Toronto and have seen the "love robots" in question for myself. So trust me, it's not a "hoax" or "patent nonsense" as it might appear — I get it, even if you don't. But I'm not convinced of its notability — of the four sources here, we've got (1) the artist's own website (a primary source), (2) a link to the webstream of CIND-FM which fails to actually verify that the station actually broadcast any content about it (and wouldn't really confer notability even if it did, as it's not a national radio service), (3) a non-notable local design blog that fails the WP:BLOGS test, and (4) a blurb in The Grid. So we've got one properly reliable source here (#4, if you lost track), but even that one fails to constitute substantive coverage. And the article's claims that the "lovebot movement" has "thousands of fans around the world" and that "the impact and values of the Lovebot project are globally expanding every day" are completely unsourced and unverifiable. So as cute as I find the robots, I'm sorry to say that what we have here is an article that doesn't belong in an encyclopedia in this form, and has to be deleted unless the sourcing can be majorly beefed up. Or redirected per Tokyogirl. Bearcat (talk) 02:14, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 02:18, 6 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Comment: If sourcing can be found for Lovebot then this might be something that should be merged into that article. However I notice a pretty big lack of coverage in that article as well- and I'm also quite concerned that both pages appear to be used as a WP:SOAPBOX for the movement as a whole. I like the movement's idea, but using Wikipedia as a mouthpiece is very, very inappropriate. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   08:41, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lovebot. The problem here is that the notability is almost solely for the robot mascot itself and while it does discuss the general idea of the Love Invasion, it's rarely called that exactly and it's far more likely that people will be searching for the term "Lovebot" itself. The art movement/project has received some fairly recent press as well as back in 2013, so I'd say that the Lovebot article could probably pass notability guidelines weakly, but there's no reason to have two separate articles. I've cleaned the article for Lovebot up quite a bit and removed all of the WP:PUFFERY and promotional prose, but I do want to caution against it being reverted to the promotional version. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   09:10, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Redirect would be acceptable too. Maybe even better, as things now stand — we don't need two separate articles about the same thing, obviously, but that one does cite much better sources than this one does. Thanks for the catch and the sourcing improvements — though ironically I've AWB-tagged both pages for maintenance issues in the past, AWB isn't a good tool for evaluating content. So the substance of both articles slipped by me at the time, and when I caught this yesterday I somehow missed the other one. In fact, given your salvage work I'm willing to just withdraw this and go straight to a redirect if there are no objections. Bearcat (talk) 15:41, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:24, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I'd be cool with that, if you wanted to withdraw this. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   03:46, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
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