Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oxfam slam


 * 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 was Delete. JERRY talk contribs 01:36, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Oxfam slam

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Delete. Small-scale local charity event, notability not established. WWGB (talk) 04:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wrestling-related deletion discussions.   -- --  pb30 < talk > 04:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to Stewarton, the town where it takes place and remove all the POV guff. It is too local to mention in Oxfam. --Bduke (talk) 07:29, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, do not merge. Trivial information- I don't support cluttering town articles with minor charity events. Maybe if it had recieved some national press, or been particuarly successful or whatever, but the town is not going to be known in any way for this event, nor is it notable in the town's history. J Milburn (talk) 12:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are thousands of articles on Wiki with no more notability, 'Oxfam Slam' is well known to anyone living in Ayrshire.  It has indeed received press from the 'Kilmarnock Standard' newspaper which has a distribution of over 25,000.  The event grows every year, in fact this Summer's event is likely to move to Kilmarnock (population over 40,000).  I've done some research and to the best of my knowledge it is the UK's largest periodic charity wreslting event, which has been aped dozens of times across the UK.  Perhaps a more general article on charity wrestling events in the UK would be more appropriate?  I believe the event's notability has been seriously underestimated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anneonimous (talk • contribs) 19:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * comment. There's an "Oxfam Slam" that gets a short paragraph in an issue of the British Medical Journal from 2001 - not clear whether this is the same event, though, and while the source is undoubtedly independent and reliable, the mention might not count as more than trivial. --Paularblaster (talk) 22:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it's a different event. The BMJ article mentions raising more than £34 000 whereas the article for deletion only refers to raising "over £6000". WWGB (talk) 23:24, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'd like to point out that this article only refers to "Stewarton's" Oxfam Slam, I am unsure if the total raised for all Oxfam Slam events across the UK is £34,000 but the figure would seem likely. I have had little time to edit the page as planned (for example to include the fact that Stewarton was merely one branch of the Oxfam Slam.) Anneonimous  —Preceding comment was added at 01:31, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete trivial and non-notable. The fact that there are lots of dross articles on WP is no argument for keeping the ones that are AfD'd NBeale (talk) 17:07, 27 January 2008 (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.