Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/XIA 1st World Tour Concert


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The result was   keep. Nakon 02:27, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

XIA 1st World Tour Concert

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Completely non-notable for our purposes per WP:NTOUR, which requires serious coverage of the actual tour, not just reviews of individual shows, for instance. This one seems to have a few sources that seem to discuss the tour, but appearances are deceptive: KpopStarz is, of course, not a reliable source, and this, from the Joongang Daily, is nothing but a bit of chit-chat that mentions some promotional activities, and this, from Korean Broadcasting System, is an insult to journalism. In short, the tour fails our notability guidelines. Drmies (talk) 19:52, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. The fact that English language sources don't deal with a K-pop tour in such detail as they would with a Lady Gaga tour, doesn't mean other language sources don't. This is a major tour, with 13 concerts and several tens of thousands of audience. And whatever you think of 'journalism' is irrelevant. KBS and JoongAng Daily are major players in Korean media. More sources: Full concert coverage from MTVK:, concert coverage from LA Weekly. A longer article about the tour (not news article) in Korean that tells the Asian leg of the tour drew 40,000 people: . Another at the Korea Economic Daily about the New York concert: 한국 남자 솔로 최초…XIA 뉴욕 심장 울리다. Another about the whole workd tour Teemeah  편지 (letter)  12:35, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 13:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 13:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 05:55, 15 February 2015 (UTC) Undecided Literally the first link I chose to click on that Teemeah listed turned out to be a deleted article. You might want to do something about that Korean economic daily article you listed. Anyways, while this might make some people say delete I looked up what was on the page currently and what I see is bad prose and worse refrences but also something else. This tour kind of did amaze me. I don't know of another Korean solo artist that has gone on a world tour that viseted Asia, South America, Europe, And the US. Frankly that seems like someone should have made a note of it somewhere. Also individual concert refrences I feel should be allowed if they also make clear and signifigant mention of the other stops and discuss the tour as whole. So I think with some effort it might be possible for the article to be brought up to standard...but as of right now should be de-linked from the artist main because those references it has now are terrible.Peachywink (talk) 13:24, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I recovered it from Google cache, but I found that originally this site (ko:포커스신문) published the article. Teemeah  편지 (letter)  19:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
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