Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rationalist Day

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Rationalist Day
Describes holiday apparently invented by the Mukto-Mona, a "rationalist" organization that mainly operates in India and Bangladesh. ("Rationalism" here seems to mean a combination of secularism, human rights activism, and skeptical inquiry.) Google has not a single hit for this holiday except for a few sites connected somehow with Mukto-Mona, and of course all those Wikipedia mirrors.

Mukto-Mona is probably notable enough to rate its own article on Wikipedia. But there's no material for it in the Rationalist Day article -- I'd oppose a simple rename. ---Isaac R 18:19, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete With just 32 Google Hits (and not all of those are related) this is definitely not widespread enough yet. Compare with 20,100,000 hits for Thanksgiving, 129,000,000 for Christmas, 2,420,000 for Diwali.  Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  19:59, May 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Mukto-Mona article if existent or can be legitimately created, otherwise delete. &mdash; Phil Welch 21:21, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur --Simon Cursitor 06:58, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. A better comparison would be the 40,000 hits for No Pants Day. --Carnildo 23:31, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I'm always most rationalist when I have no pants, because then I can moon Immanuel Kant. (Just kidding.  Kant would kick my butt.)  (Regionalism without spread at this point and therefore not encyclopedic content at this time.) Geogre 01:48, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable. Megan1967 07:17, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
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