Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oklahoma State University homecoming


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The result was delete. L Faraone  04:07, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Oklahoma State University homecoming

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Unsourced non-notable annual event, nearly all university have a homecoming event of which none of them have an article covering the subject. I could see this article staying if it was solely covering last weekends tragedy at the parade but at a different title but even in that event I believe the subject is still not notable. Dcheagle  &bull; talk &bull; contribs 09:30, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oklahoma-related deletion discussions.   Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 09:32, 27 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. Interesting, but needs proper sources to indicate notability (Notability (events). What I see on GNews is mostly local media coverage, and mostly focusing on the occasional incident (drunken driving, etc.). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:54, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. North America1000 10:40, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America1000 10:41, 27 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. One event at one university. No offence, but American universities do seem to take their little local events and sports terribly seriously! I think most of us outside the USA would find it very odd how seriously they take themselves - other than some major traditions to do with Oxbridge (like the Boat Race) which are long-established in British culture and stem from the time when almost everyone who was anyone went to one or other of those two universities I don't think anyone else in Britain, for example, would give a monkeys what students get up to. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note. Article content appears to be lifted wholesale from The American Folklife Center project of the Library of Congress.  I'm not clear enough on copyvio issues to know if this is in the public domain or not; I'm surprised that it's not attributed.  If the article is kept, it will need to be cleaned up.   Hi DrNick ! 17:27, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep While the article as it stands probably needs to be revised or rewritten, the topic itself is notable and thus this article should not be deleted. Yes, even though practically all universities have "homecoming", some Homecomings are actually notable to warrant a separate article.

Furthermore, in my opinion the British editor's comment seems to be misinformed. One, university Homecoming is not just a "student" event, in fact it is primarily for the alumni and/or greater community. Two, of course in the US we take "little local" events seriously, do you think in a country with 300 million people and spanning from coast to coast there are really going to be nationally dominant universities like Oxford or Cambridge in the UK? Of course not. This university in particular is a major state university that serves not just its area but the whole state.

Here are some sources to perhaps establish or at least inform y'all of the notability of this particular Homecoming.
 * https://admissions.okstate.edu/be-a-cowboy/history-traditions
 * http://newsok.com/article/5453760
 * http://www.orangeconnection.org/s/860/Hybrid/index-hc.aspx?sid=860&gid=1&pgid=5909
 * http://theodysseyonline.com/oklahoma-st/americas-greatest-homecoming-we-earned-it/192875

2602:30A:2EFE:F050:A1D2:FA71:366F:B03E (talk) 19:08, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The first and third sources are primary sources, secondary sources are whats needed. Also the forth source you provided seems like it wont pass WP:Reliable sources. Still doesn't seem to establish notability.-- Dcheagle   &bull; talk &bull; contribs 20:09, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
 * And the second source was written by a member of the OSU Alumni Association. Rainbow unicorn (talk) 00:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Delete Does not seem much different from any other homecoming other universities have. What makes this one so special? We are not going to have articles on every single event that every single major university has are we? The Legendary Ranger (talk) 00:54, 2 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Comment It just isn't true that there are zero universities who have article's covering the subject of their homecoming so there needs to be more of a reason then just that one. --  MurderByDeadcopy  "bang!"  07:06, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete lack of good coverage Rainbow unicorn (talk) 00:58, 5 November 2015 (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.