Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alchemy (festival)

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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. Consensus is that the topic lacks significant coverage to meet WP:N. Jreferee t/c 07:56, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alchemy (festival)

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Contested prod. Non notable new festival with 375 visitors. I haven't found one reliable independent source reporting on the festival (a newspaper or some such). Fram 08:32, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete There does not appear to be significant coverage of this event and thus fails WP:N. --BlindEagletalk~contribs 16:03, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - it's news, not really an article. Can anyone find cites? Bearian 15:25, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • If the alumni or attendees were notable, I could support a keep...JJJ999 02:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
    • Alumni? Of a festival? Anyway, notability is not inherited, if there are no sources about the festival, it doesn't matter who attended it. Fram 07:43, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
  • DoNotDelete A quick search of burning related websites turns up several links to the festival. Outside of that it should be kept as it is a subset of a much larger sub culture that was started with Burning Man. As to cites I had no problem with finding posts on LiveJournal as well as MySpace about it. And given court rulings over the last couple of years blogging IS a form of journalism with all the protections that say a newspaper gets. For a wide range of comments and reviews on the festival search Dirty Southern Burners. CLHorus 18:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep then.JJJ999 23:45, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
    • You agree to keep it based on the arguments of a single purpose account which have absolutely no grounds in any policy or guideline? Court rulings have no impact on Wikipedia's considerations of blogs, and Livejournal and MySpace are definitely not reliable sources for Wikipedia. As for "Dirty Southern Burners", coupled with Alchemy it gives only 5 Google hits[1], two of them from MySpace, one unrelated to the festival, and two of the DSB page with reports, indicating that it happened (which wasn't doubted), and that those who went had a good time. Great, but why exactly do you want to keep this article? Fram 07:17, 4 October 2007 (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.