Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Winscombe Youth Theatre


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The result was   delete. Lankiveil (speak to me) 00:25, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Winscombe Youth Theatre

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Previously speedy deleted under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion then recreated, still with no assertion of notability and no references. Clearly fails wp:gng Theroadislong (talk) 19:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC) Theroadislong (talk) 19:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, it was not deleted under criterion A7. It was nominated under that criterion, but the nomination was declined, as it is in part an educational institution, which is exempt from A7. I deleted it under criterion G11, but then restored it, as I decided that, although the early versions of the article were somewhat promotional in tone, it was not such blatant advertising as to justify speedy deletion. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:20, 22 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete- Google News and Books provided nothing relevant and useful aside from this event listing. It also seems the website hasn't been updated since last year so they probably haven't been very active recently. A different search provided this and this which contain some useful information but it wouldn't be sufficient. Through that same search, I found this, a profile for one of their members, a few more news articles here and here (these two are both for Honk), here, here, here and here. They participated in a Winscombe festival here and performed West Side Story in 2003 here. I also found this which mentions a keyboardist who plays for them. Not only does their website mention the LAMDA exams, I found this newsletter that mentions it. A better article could be written with this but I think it wouldn't be enough and I can't find any evidence for the 1990s plays. SwisterTwister   talk  20:53, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete- Unfortunately, this is a classic example of a common situation. Someone thinks that an organisation is a good cause, and deserves to be better known, so they come to Wikipedia and write an article about it, without any awareness of Wikipedia's notability requirements. I do sympathise with such people, who sometimes put a significant amount of work in, only to see that work thrown away. However, the fact remains that this is a minor, local theatrical group, with no evidence anywhere that it satisfies Wikipedia's notability guidelines. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:13, 22 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep- The Article is notable as apparently Theresa Hemming's daughter is a west end actor as well as attending the youth theatre for 5 years also other students have been successful in the west end; I thought that people would be interested in the famous actors roots. Winscombe Youth Theatre is also still active as there has been adverting on the | School website (that they use as there rehearsal and they use the stage to preform there shows), | Spotlight and Spotlight/Newsletter that they did a show back in June 2012 apparently a sequel to The Wizard of Oz and that there next show is about Cats and Dogs I guess that they are going to preform in June 2013. (Andwhy1 (talk) 11:37, 22 December 2012 (UTC))


 * Delete as non-notable - even with the excellent research done by SisterTwister. --Bob Re-born (talk) 12:33, 22 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete No ref's to show that this youth thatre project is ingerently notable in itself. It's noble, but cannot inherit notability from 1 (perhaps) individual (✉→BWilkins←✎) 13:02, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete - No sources in the article to substantiate notability, slim-pickings on the world wide web to do so either. Unless there's a book that lends significant coverage, I'm feeling a delete here. Go   Phightins  !  15:12, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete -- An amateur theatre company is almost certainly NN. My guess is that its continued existence depends largely on the enthuiasm of a few adult leaders.  Peterkingiron (talk) 20:52, 24 December 2012 (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.