Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Incredibly strange wrestling

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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 keep. Sr13 06:19, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incredibly strange wrestling

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This is either a not notable independent wrestling promotion, backyard wrestling promotion, efed, or hoax. Nenog 06:50, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wrestling-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 08:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment the federation is not a hoax, visit their website and see the massive amount of pictures from their shows, I've heard of it, I've read show results from the federation a long time ago. I'm not sure of its notability but it's not a backyard, efed or hoax. MPJ-DK 08:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and Cleanup It has 5 non-trivial references, although I'm not familiar with any of the sources except the SF Chronicle (although I assume the Fresno and Willamette are those local papers). The advertisement tag was well placed as this does indeed read like a press release/promo for this group so would need to be rewritten for NPOV. There's no specific assertion of notability beyond the references themselves (i.e. the evidence of mention in other sources). An early sentence explaining why exactly this is a notable group would go a long way to strengthening this article, but until it's cleaned up, the article as it exists gives evidence that it has received coverage in several secondary news sources, and there it is. -Markeer 13:30, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Markeer is on the money here, it's got 5 references already so it's better off than 99% of the articles put up for AFD. If kept I'd be happy to work on cleaning it up and making it look less like an ad and more like an encylopedic entry, I'm just weary of putting too much work into it at the moment since it may end up deleted. MPJ-DK 13:53, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and cleanup of advert flavor. Edison 17:31, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I don't even consider myself a wrestling fan and I've sure heard of it. Frequent appearances at major music festival tours and involvement of Johnny Legend make this an easy keeper. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:29, 14 June 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.