Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Texas Connection


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The result was delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 00:49, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Texas Connection

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Article has had a notability tag for three years, with no sources added; all links in the article are dead, and the only search hit is a Facebook page Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 22:57, 8 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete Seems to be a promo for an event from 3 years go. ShelbyMarion (talk) 12:04, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:32, 11 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not a free advertising platform for local community events and concerts. This was a one-off event which relied entirely on primary sources even when it was upcoming, it's been so little visited since then that 3.5 years later it's still written as if the event were still upcoming, and no reliable source coverage exists to salvage it with — so an advertisement for a non-notable local community event is about all this is or could ever be. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 18:47, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree with Bearcat that current content reads like out-dated advertisement. However googling "Texas Connection" "Red Deer" seems to have found it more than once on list of Alberta festivals and on non-primary sources like 2012 Red Deer Advocate and 2013 Innisfall Province. Canuckle (talk) 20:33, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Amusingly, the article has for years been "within the scope of" WikiProject US/WikiProject Texas only, even though it's a festival in Alberta. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 21:11, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * @Canuckle: Your first link does mention the event, but seems to mostly be covering that particular artist. The second is a 404 error? -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 21:13, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I found the article he was trying to link to, and fixed the link — he accidentally left out a space between the end of the URL and the title he was trying to wrap over it. Bearcat (talk) 04:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * That's not great sourcing, though. The Red Deer Advocate link just namechecks the existence of the festival in an article that isn't about the festival — and the Innisfail Province is a community weekly newspaper which would be acceptable for some supplementary confirmation of facts after the festival had already been daily-newspapered over GNG, but cannot carry GNG in and of itself if it's the best source you can come up with. So no, unfortunately those links haven't changed anything. Bearcat (talk) 04:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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