Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Newark Days


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The result was   keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 13:25, 16 October 2012 (UTC)

Newark Days

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Non-notable regional annual festival. No evidence presented of notability; article reads like advertisement. Andrewlp1991 (talk) 06:27, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep but needs to be trimmed to a stub - Considering that the festival symbolises Newark, California's corporation, I believe that may be notable. Additionally, I found one news article to support the establishment. Google News archives provided additional results but several of them appear to be simply event listings or require payment. Several of them are archived from the years past, as far as 1985 from what I see. Google Books provided nothing useful but insufficient available sources is not a reasonable case to delete, what appears to be a notable festival. Hopefully, with time, free sources will become available. I'm willing to trim the article to a stub, SwisterTwister   talk  01:38, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Your evidence of notability is a passing mention in the Fremont Patch?? I don't think so. --MelanieN (talk) 19:24, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I never indicated that the patch.com supported the article entirely, I was simply mentioning it. Honestly, I feel the article is significant to the history of Newark but, unfortunately, there are few free sources. However, as you'll see, I added sources to support past themes from the sources I could find. I am open to redirecting the article to Newark,_California. SwisterTwister   talk  01:24, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:42, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 18:42, 10 October 2012 (UTC)


 *  Weak keep. (I am changing from "weak keep" to "keep" based on the references added to the article by SwisterTwister) At first I was going to suggest a merge/redirect to Newark, California, which certainly does need more than the current one-sentence mention. But this is not a trivial festival - its claimed attendance is 100,000 - and it does get some coverage. Aside from the hyperlocal coverage in the Fremont Patch, which I discount, it does seem to get an article every year in the San Jose Mercury News, which is a respected regional paper. That appears to be routine coverage of an annual local event, but still, a full-length article every year in a regional paper probably amounts to significant coverage. Somebody needs to add some of these to the article, which currently has no independent references. --MelanieN (talk) 19:38, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep, i was ready to ask for deletion, but i checked on the attendance levels (not in the article yet, unfortunately), and compared it to Solano Avenue Stroll, another local event of similar scope. While the numbers on the Newark event are somewhat smaller, and while its received much less attention than the solano one, i think it should stay, albeit in shortened form to just the basics, perSisterTwister.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 01:14, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I did a minor rewrite, to give the article a proper lead paragraph, and I rewrote a portion of the article that had been cut-and-pasted from the website. --MelanieN (talk) 04:57, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
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