Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Corndog Day


 * 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 of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, even disregarding the obvious sock puppets. J I P | Talk 09:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

National Corndog Day
- This year, more than 3000 people will celebrate National Corndog Day with 80 parties in 28 states (www.corndogday.com/parties) that anyone can join and host.  Please let me know what other information would be helpful in making this determination. (Full disclosure: I am a 7-time participant in NCD and a big fan.) --Gnellie 00:37, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * del nonnotable celebration. Fails Verifiability: coverage seems only in blogs and at its own website. Only 106 unique google links]. mikka (t) 21:57, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. All the hits are from blogs, forums and personal webpages. bogdan 22:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. On reading the Verifiability, I wanted to add some additional info and research.
 * User:Gnellie not qualified for voting. mikka (t) 21:14, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * - This is not a flash in the pan -- it has been celebrated for several decades, with the formal national effort starting again in 1998. It has also been celebrated in 6 foreign countries.
 * - Several independent press reports have been written in the past about NCD, including:
 * -- The Oregonian: "Every Corndog Has Its Day", published on March 16, 2002. Now only available in paid archives, but findable in the Oregonian Search
 * -- Boulder Dirt: "Ladies and gentlemen, start your corndogs", published on March 17, 2005.
 * -- UVa Law Weekly: "The Dirty Side of Corndogging", published March 25, 2005
 * -- Several radio shows -- including one of Chicago's main Sports Radio stations -- of which I cannot find archived footage.
 * KEEP. National Corndog Day events will be hosted at over 50 different locations throughout the nation in 2006. The event has recieved extensive media coverage, and is attended by enthusaists, media commentators and politicians (as a reporter for a national publication, I am flying to San Francisco to attend a NCD event this weekend.) To delete the entry because it is an emerging, rather than mature, national celebration would be to deprive the wikipedia community of an important insight. And given the extensive pages of esperanto (an essentially unused language) and flash mobs (a 'movement' created by an editor from Harper's Magazine that is now dead and at its height involved less than 200 people), an entry about NCD is not out of place. -- Duhigg
 * Not qualified. No such user:Duhigg. mikka (t) 21:14, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mikka: It is kind of mean to call Duhigg 'no such user' isn't it? I mean, lets look at the facts: Duhigg has posted to this entry, suggesting that if he isn't a user, he has mad user skills, huh? Also, Duhigg has taken the time to write about National Corndog Day. Now, I will grant you: Duhigg does not devote his entire day to trying to suck the joy out of people's lives by nominating wikipedia entries for deletion. Instead, he does things like go to brunch with his friends, hang out with his wife, and wonder why other people get so worked up over the status of newly created holidays (which, I will note, was not only profiled on WGN radio, but which also was enjoyed by hundreds of people on March 18, 2006.) This suggests that he is real, and although may not rise to the level of a "wikipedia user," my guess is that he has real feelings, real hopes and dreams, a real yen for corndogs. -- Duhigg
 * Delete. If a "national" day involves only 3000 people out of 250 million, it doesn't sound very national. BrownHairedGirl 01:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep
 * The correctness of the event's name has nothing to do with its validity as a wikipedia article, or whether the article is verifiable.
 * As far as the google test is concerned, the event's site is the top ranked google for "corn dog" and second for "corndog".
 * I would guess (please don't make me check them all!) that many of the entries on the Fictional Holidays Category list are about as unverifiable and unpopular on google as NCD.
 * Number of google hits is not a valid criteria for deleting an article or determining verifiability.
 * I'm not sure what makes this celebration 'nonnotable'. Please provide some specifics on this.
 * Firebus 01:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Not qualified. User:Firebus sole contributions are to the voted article. mikka (t) 21:14, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom.--Ezeu 02:32, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. It is harmless, it is verifiable and the google search mentioned above give 557 hits. That it is mentioned in blogs asserts that it is of some interest, at least to corndog connoisseurs – and if we can keep ketchup on hot dogs, we should certainly have National Corndog Day. --Ezeu 17:57, 15 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. It's no Steak and Blowjob Day.    Proto    ||    type    14:26, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Perfectly verifiable as the subject of articles in the Anchorage Daily News and the Oregonian. -- JJay 17:41, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Not to mention today's article in the Denver Post Firebus 23:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow. Unbelievable, amazing timing from a great newspaper. -- JJay 00:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Very weak keep as a festival that's of interest to a limited number of people. Questionable verifiability, but since International Talk Like a Pirate Day has an article, I think I can't justify a delete. Stifle 20:46, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. A nonnotable joke. Mukadderat 18:31, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. A nonnotable joke. Imacomp 00:55, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP. These people are serious about their corndogs, and I'm OK with that. Articles in The Oregonian and the The Denver Post seem to suggest verifiability.In addition, Foster Farms has sponsered this celebration by sending out thousands of free corndogs, support by a major corporation also suggests verifiability.--Nirtak99 19:45, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Vote not qualified. mikka (t) 20:06, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Very weak keep provided very good independent references are supplied, though the sheer amount of sockpuppetry employed to defend this article makes me doubt how notable this event really is after all. I'll be sure to write an article about my hometown's local "Skip School Day", which involves far more people. (Really.) --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 22:07, 19 March 2006 (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.