Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Vocabulary Championship


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The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 08:35, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

National Vocabulary Championship

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Seems like a minor TV competition with little notability. No refs on the page, few mentions that I can find. JMWt (talk) 12:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and United States of America. JMWt (talk) 12:03, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The book notes: "This championship uses competition and word play to engage and reward students while teaching them the value of a strong vocabulary. ... Students must first quality in their citywide championship. This step is an online test. Top scorers will then be invited to take a regionwide test. Fifty finalists win the opportunity to participate in the national competition."  The article notes: "Take a Jeopardy!-style game show stage, add brain-teasing vocabulary questions and fly in 50 of America's top high school wordsmiths. The result? The second annual National Vocabulary Championship, touted on the contest's Web site as a test of "the spectacular vernacular of students everywhere.""  The article notes: "The National Vocabulary Championship is trying to break the mold of traditional memorize-and-recite competitions. With study materials and tests provided by educational partner The Princeton Review, it will provide students with the real-world tools necessary to comprehend word meanings and help build an enhanced vocabulary."  The article notes: "Walker had just won $5,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to New York City, where she will compete in March with 49 other participants -- seven city champions and 42 others who qualified through an online exam. The national vocabulary champion will win $40,000, which will be invested in a "529" higher education savings plan. The National Vocabulary Championship is an initiative of GSN, the game show network."  The article notes: ""Win With Words" is the motto for the National Vocabulary Championship, with nearly 100 students from area high schools competing in a test, not of will, but of words. ... With Words is an initiative launched by the Game Show Network to promote strong vocabulary skills as an integral element of a child's education." <li> The article notes: "This year's national final, sponsored in partnership with Comcast and the Princeton Review, will be March 10 in Los Angeles. The Pittsburgh winner was determined in true game-show tradition, amid nervous gasps from the crowd and a booming heartbeat audio track counting down the seconds until time ran out."</li> <li> The article notes: " After a tough competition in New York City against some of the nation's brightest students, Nipomo High School junior Andrew Pirolo was eliminated in the first round of the National Vocabulary Championship. ... The event, which pitted 50 students from across the country against each other, took place Monday in front of a packed house at the New York Public Library. ... The students were divided into groups of 10 for the first round, with the fastest four in each group going on to the second round. Then the remaining 20 students were given more vocabulary questions, with the top five making it to the final round."</li> <li> The article notes: "The host, Dylan Lane, questioned the contestants the way game-show hosts do, making friendly chatter with jittery people who have buzzers in their hands. When Billy’s turn came, he told Mr. Lane that he knew a synonym for synonym: poecilonym."</li> <li> The article notes: "The final rounds of the second annual National Vocabulary Championship will be held Monday at the Music Box Theatre. Unlike last year, it will not be televised, though video will appear after the event at http://www.gsn.com/NVC."</li> <li> The article notes: "Now the city's champ is going up against 49 contenders from around the country on Monday in the inaugural National Vocabulary Championship. The winner gets $40,000 and a certain type of fame - the competition will broadcast April 15 on the Game Show Network, a sponsor. Contestants are asked questions similar to those found on the SAT, and study tools for the competition were created by The Princeton Review."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow the National Vocabulary Championship to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 09:37, 1 February 2023 (UTC) </li></ul> Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 18:52, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - featured non-trivially in a wide variety of WP:RS during its very short life Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 19:15, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Keep as per the multiple reliable sources coverage identified in this discussion that show a pass of WP:GNG so that deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 00:46, 12 February 2023 (UTC)


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