Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Queen's University street parties

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Mackensen (talk) 00:39, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Queen's University street parties

Delete - Attempted prod removed with no comment, this article is unencyclopedic, NN, studentcruft, wikipedia is not a news site nor is it for something made up in school one day. -- pm_shef 16:58, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete An article about street parties? I guess some could possible be merged into Queen's University, but the article is just naturally uncyclopedic. -Royalguard11^Talk 17:15, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. These street parties are not studentcruft or something made up in school one day. The parties are a huge concern that occupies the city's government and news for weeks before and after they occur. Last year's party made the front page of newspapers published in cities hundreds of kilometres away. And by the way, I did leave a comment when I removed the other tag. --Arctic Gnome 17:36, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not for things of purely local notability. Bearcat 22:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep important for history of university. VanHalen 21:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Note:This is VanHalen (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)'s 12th edit - pm_shef 21:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Any important info can be merged into the university article. -- Necrothesp 22:00, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Anything worth saying about this (which is one or two sentences at most) can go into the Queen's University article; it's not important enough (or notable enough anywhere outside of Kingston itself) to merit its own separate article. Delete. Bearcat 22:51, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, notable in community, multiple accounts published in national newspapers. BoojiBoy 23:54, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete if it is improved makes clear a notability beyond local interest I'll reconsider. Nickieee 00:52, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Bearcat but can keep mention if Queen's University if you like -- Samir धर्म 00:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. If most university clubs can't make the cut, this certainly ought not to. Agent 86 08:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Deltabeignet 18:29, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Question. As this isn't "something made up in school one day", it isn't "studentcruft", and it is "notable", I can only assume that you want to delete it because it is more news-like than "encyclopaedic". Can someone please explain the difference between those two? Would it just be a matter of re-writing it to make it sound less like a newspaper article? --Arctic Gnome 19:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - It quite is something made up in school, maybe one week instead of one day. Further, your assertion that it is notable doesn't deal with the comments above at all which demonstrate agreement that it in fact is not notable outside of Kingston and the Queen's community -- pm_shef 20:01, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

No, I can tell you for sure that it was not made up. Do I really have to find newspaper archives to prove so? The event had a thousand witnesses. As for notability, do you want me to find you a list of other articles that are only notable in one city? It was big news in Kingston for months and Wikipedia is not paper. --Arctic Gnome 20:13, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

• When I say "made up in school" I'm not saying it didn't happen. Clearly the event took place. I'm referring to WP:NOT, the event is a school related event with little history, no notability outside the community, and in fact doesn't make a real claim to notability. -- pm_shef 20:18, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

It was more of a Kingston event than a University event, only half the people there were Queen's students. There is defiantly a history to them, student street parties have been an issue for over fifty years. Being a big deal to one community is enough to make an article notable; if it wasn't I could spend all day putting afd tags on articles about events in other communities (but I won't, that isn't a threat). --Arctic Gnome 20:29, 13 August 2006 (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.