Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aurora-con

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 of the nomination was delete. I count four for deletion and two making comments suggesting keeping but not actually endorsing it. Mangojuice^talk 15:51, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aurora-con

Ad for a non-notable anime convention that hasn't happened yet. The article has no incoming links and is littered with cleanup tags that have inspired no such thing, unless contesting the prod was cleanup. Opabinia regalis 16:53, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Someone wrote on the article's discussion page:

This Article should not be deleted. It is a new convention, but those of us the Anchorage area are looking foward to it and updates will come post event. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.178.41.191 (talk • contribs) .

I nominated an amine article for deletion Kunio Okawara and it got quite a bit of support and even I changed my mind during the discussion. I think this is a new area that many of us don't know about, but it is of interest to many. KarenAnn 18:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment, KarenAnn, the difference between your Ookawara nomination and the Aurora-con nomination is that Ookawara is very notable in Japan, but not as notable here. Aurora-con, however, is in Alaska so it would be easy to prove notability with English sources (A-Kon and Anime North would be examples of anime conventions that are well known.). I also disagree with the categorization under Japan-related articles because it's only peripherally tied to Japan. --ColourBurst 21:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. The convention isn't notable yet and would only be notable by being the first anime convention held in Alaska. However, I think it is generally bad practice to create articles on anime conventions that have never been held before, and in most cases such pre-convention articles end up as ads for those conventions. --69.43.20.194 18:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC) --TheFarix (Talk) 19:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Note: The convention is suppose to be held on 14 July 2006. That could mean that a new post-con article would be created just three days after this AfD. --TheFarix (Talk) 03:47, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Japan-related deletions. -- TheFarix (Talk) 19:07, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Totally nn convention and Wikipedia is not a crystal ball --IslaySolomon 20:02, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
• As much as I think it's great that Alaska is getting their own anime convention, this one hasn't even happened yet. I think it would be better to wait until after the convention has been held, and then write the article. For this reason, I have to "vote" Delete on this one. ···日本穣^{? · Talk to Nihonjoe} 03:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Doesn't matter whether it happens three days or three years after the AfD concludes, this article doesn't deserve to exist yet and needs to serve as an example for other authors content on being presumptuous about the future.  freshofftheufoΓΛĿЌ  04:58, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: If it is notable after it occurs, then it should be notable before it occurs. We have a lot of things that haven't occured yet, like future elections. No crytal ball refers to making up info that one couldn't know at the present. If it is Alaska's first anime con, that fact doesn't change if it hasn't happened yet. That being said, I don't know what the notability critera are for cons period, it might very well fail them.--Rayc 19:24, 9 July 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.