Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rock2Wgtn

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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. Mangojuicetalk 18:27, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rock2Wgtn

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"The first Rock2Wgtn Festival will be held in 2008." That sounds like spam to me. -- RHaworth (Talk

  • Delete. Notability is not inherited and, though this concert has recruited some big name musical acts, that does not make the concert itself notable. To be notable, the concert itself has to gain significant secondary news coverage of its own, as Live 8, Vans Warped Tour, Ozzfest, and Lollapalooza have done. Redfarmer (talk) 12:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)


Spam??? As far as things go down under, this is notable. New Zealand and Australia may be far, far away from Europe and the US and not attract the big events that are continuously on show but occasionally big things like this happen there. The Big Day Out happens once a year and is unheard of outside of NZ/Oz but it has a page. And now a concert twice the size and attracting arguably bigger names than the BDO ever has is and you don't want it mentioned? There are numerous references from numerous sources that show that it is a notable event. If you Google either the BDO or Rock2Wgtn you won't find any info on them apart from the .com.au or .co.nz sites because they are hardly known about in the US or Europe. Notable does not mean that is is notable in just the US/Europe. Notable means that it is of note to a significant community, namely the entire populations of New Zealand and Australia. To reply to your comments about Vans, Ozzfest & Lolla these concerts are US/Europe events and only relevant to them. It could stand to reason that these are not notable because they do not have any note to the populations outside of the US/Europe. Smaunsell (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

It's the job of the article to assert notability. If you think it is notable, quote your sources. Right now, you're saying keep based on WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS and accusing others of Americancentrism and Eurocentrism in violation of WP:AGF. Quote your sources showing why the concert itself is notable per WP:N and we'll consider it. Redfarmer (talk) 19:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Smaunsell in that Rock2WGTN is a significant and notable event. Give the Wiki community time to develop the article. Google lists more than 21,000 reference to a simple search on Rock2WGTN so it's a notable event to plenty of people. Since when was "sounds like spam" regarded as thorough research for deletion? Sounds like a poor effort to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.69.3.20 (talk) 06:58, 24 January 2008 (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.