Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival


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The result was keep. -- Scott Burley (talk) 01:01, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival

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Semi-advertorialized article about a local event, not reliably sourced as the subject of enough media coverage to clear our notability standards for events. This is actually a separate thing from the Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival that I listed for AFD yesterday (this one's summer, that one's winter), but it isn't any better referenced as noteworthy -- the references are its own self-published website, a YouTube video clip of the organizers speaking, and a corporate blog, none of which are reliable or notability-supporting sources that would get it over WP:ORGDEPTH or WP:GNG. As always, the notability test for a thing like this is not that its existence is technically metaverified by its own self-published web presence -- it hinges on receiving media coverage in sources independent of its own self-published web presence. Bearcat (talk) 00:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 00:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep Although could be better sourced, meets WP:GNG as a major, annual, local event in a country's capital. DrewieStewie (talk) 07:53, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The ticket to getting a poorly sourced article kept is not just to theorize that maybe better sources might exist somewhere — anybody could always say that about absolutely anything, even total hoaxes, if all they had to do was say it. If you want to assert that something passes WP:GNG, you have to show hard evidence that GNG-passing sources do exist to salvage the article with, not just theorize that it might be possible. Bearcat (talk) 16:15, 20 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep - Quick search shows numerous secondary sources discussing the subject, including CBC News, CTV News, and the Ottawa Citizen. Event takes place annually in the national capital of Canada. Meets general notability criteria. Spyder212 (talk) 21:01, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:01, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep. I added some references. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:04, 23 April 2019 (UTC)


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