Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The John R. Elliott HERO Campaign for Designated Drivers


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The result was Delete  Chris  lk02  Chris Kreider 13:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

The John R. Elliott HERO Campaign for Designated Drivers

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Almost entirely plagiarized from various other sources while containing essentially no substance: an advertisement or news release created by the organization, overall badly formatted and has questionable significance. Outside of the fact that it's almost entirely copy-pasted from other webpages, it has glaring issues. The opening has pov problems, the information says little about it, the infobox is unnecessary, the first section is insignificant, the second is a restatement of part of the opening, the third is basically a press release and contains pointless information, the fourth is extremely statistically dubious and localized and basically an advertisement, the fifth contains absolutely no information besides documenting a celebration by them, the sixth is a single sentence that describes a single fundraiser, and the last has PoV issues and is again a press release. This article started as one chunk of text with Wikipedia edit and section bracketed areas, suggesting another article under some similar name may have existed and been deleted. Overall, horrible quality, extreme plagiarism and it's and ultimately irredeemable. MillenniumMeh (talk) 21:44, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as spam per WP:CSD, and will tag as such. -- Finngall   talk  21:54, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Change to weak delete per Staszek Lem comment below. The spammy content has been removed, but campaigns such as this tend to get some initial short-term attention and then disappear--if deleted, there should be no prejudice against recreation if the campaign proves to have staying power and gains additional coverage in the future.  -- Finngall   talk  18:01, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Stubify(ing): Borderline notable (- they all spend a few paragraphs on them), but the article is highly promotional. I have stubified the article. Esquivalience t 23:08, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:07, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * delete - a personal grief but nonnotable campaign. Of course, since t6his is a campaign, it is advertised and will find a couple of newspater articles. But otherwise no significant cultural impact. Staszek Lem (talk) 16:22, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep the stub. Government-recognition otherwise confers notability. Also note: "The John R. Elliott HERO Campaign for Designated Drivers" as an exact phrase reveals only 969 / 12 web/news results on Google, but "HERO Campaign for Designated Drivers" as an exact phrase lists 243,000 / 12,000 web/news results, so searching with the longer term will inhibit acquiring more RS. Pax 07:27, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 00:22, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:INHERITORG. Sad that their son died but Wikipedia is not a memorial website.  CookieMonster755   (talk)   04:31, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment:There's also a NASCAR series named after him which has been in existence for fifteen years. Pax 04:10, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Clarification: The linked event is a race, not a series, and NASCAR races frequently change official names from year to year based on sponsorship. The July NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Kentucky Speedway was only named after this campaign for last year's race.  This sponsorship was apparently just a one-year deal, as this year's edition of the race is not currently being advertised under the same title, but merely as the "Kentucky 300", indicating that title sponsorship for the race has not yet been sold.  -- Finngall   talk  18:01, 4 May 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.