Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Urban Wrestling Alliance


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 06:49, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Urban Wrestling Alliance

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None of the sources in the article look reliable or significant coverage in any way. I have done searches and not found anything that I can see is enough to satisfy the WP:GNG MPJ-DK (talk) 01:45, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom.TH1980 (talk) 02:04, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 04:19, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Wrestling-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 04:19, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 04:20, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Keep the full article. Among the article's References, the St. Petersburg Times and Wrestling Observer were regular sources of significant coverage. These are 2 reliable and significant coverage sources that have survived--there used to be more coverage available through searches that are no longer online, including TV listings articles. It's better to preserve remaining coverage that still exists, instead of deleting all history of a TV wrestling show altogether. People from different cities on YouTube have shared memories of the UWA, including the UWA airing on KTXH in Houston. Wikipedia has helped to preserve memory and history, and hopefully, more people will add sources to this article, so keep what memories still exist and build from there (not completely delete it from history and memory). For topics similar to this, slowly but surely, people have come up with archives of various sources from reliable collections. Matching facts in the article--Urban Wrestling Alliance TV episodes on YouTube show the UPN logo at the bottom right side of the screen, and some show the UPN TV Channel in different cities right next to the UPN logo, like UPN TV 20 Houston and UPN TV 69 Atlanta Shoehat3

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kpg  jhp  jm  06:45, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Can't find any reliable sources.  AD  Talk 07:37, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
 * New Comment A whole article on the subject of the Urban Wrestling Alliance was published in a 2001 issue of WOW (World Of Wrestling) Magazine, that included photos, the story of Rocky Johnson's UWA involvement and his Urban Wrestling Academy in Florida. One of the wrestlers interviewed in this WOW Magazine article was Sonny Siaki (whose Wiki bio includes the Urban Wrestling Alliance). WOW (World Of Wrestling) Magazine was a reliable source, with Bill Apter as its Editor-In-Chief.Shoehat3 (talk) 05:28, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * You already voted "Keep" once above. MPJ-DK (talk) 05:38, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry. I just changed it from a vote to a "New Comment", to "generate a more thorough discussion", to back up "reliable sources" that have been published.Shoehat3 (talk) 07:16, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
 * An article was published in The Detroit News, dated Saturday, November 11, 2000, titled "Two TV Shows try new angles, with mixed results" by Darrin Hill (sports section). This article is all about "Women of Wrestling" and "Urban Wrestling Alliance", and says the "Urban Wrestling Alliance" (UWA) "airs in Detroit on UPN-50/WKDB at 11 p.m. Sundays". Respectfully, just pointing out a "reliable source", to "generate a more thorough discussion".Shoehat3 (talk)


 * Delete. Non-notable organization. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 23:06, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment There was a Multichannel News article about the Urban Wrestling Alliance, titled "BET Ponders Wrestling TV Deal" by R. Thomas Umstead, dated August 21, 2001, that talked about Rocky Johnson's UWA involvement and a quote from BET's Michael Lewellen. With the dying away of print media sources especially, and with the possibility of some people thinking a subject's not notable just because they're not familiar with it, this is where some history dies away, and I'm just pointing out another "reliable source", that the UWA has been a main topic in itself, as a weekly TV organization (especially since there is visual evidence of UWA TV shows on UPN on YouTube, I can't believe that I'm the only one who remembers it). Shoehat3 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:34, 13 January 2019 (UTC)


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