Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/What the Heck Fest

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 redirect to Anacortes, Washington. Opinions are split between 3 delete, 3 merge and 1 keep. This only gives us consensus not to have an article. What I do in such cases is close as a redirect to the possible merge target, which allows editorial consensus to determine whether and how much content to merge from the history.  Sandstein  07:35, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Not notable. Lacks coverage in independent reliable sources. Search found nothing beyond routine event listings. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:39, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete no assertion of notability independent of Anacortes, independent of sources directly related to or affiliated with What the Heck Fest. —Mythdon 12:00, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete (changed to merge, see below) no claim to notability made. Town has a population of 16,000. ¡Bozzio! 05:13, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment - I found and listed these sources when I deprodded this: [1], [2] ~Kvng (talk) 12:15, 22 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:35, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 10:35, 23 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge Merge with the city that it was held in.--JJBers Public (talk) 16:30, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this a good solution? ~Kvng (talk) 15:24, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment These sources help, but I would still merge it with the festival section for the town it's based in.— JJBers (talk) 10:23, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• The above sources are just routine event listings. duffbeerforme (talk) 10:33, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - Significant coverage in multiple reliable sources: [3], [4], [5]. In sum, I do not consider this to to be WP:ROUTINE coverage. ~Kvng (talk) 23:37, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete -- the sources offered above are unconvincing; all are either passing mentions and / or from extremely local sources (brooklynvegan.com; The Spokesman Review; etc.). This does not rise to the level of encyclopedia notability. The merge to the city does not make sense, so delete. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:40, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing your "passing mention" complaint is associated with trivial mention. These references are not trivial mentions of the subject, they are, for the most part, primarily about the subject. A reference can be disqualified for being WP:ROUTINE and others here have made this criticism but I personally beleive there's more meat than that. WP:CORPDEPTH does impose some restrictions on local sources. I don't beleive WP:CORPDEPTH applies to this subject. ~Kvng (talk) 19:13, 6 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. I was asked to evaluate the new sources provided by Kvng. The new sources are an article on brooklynvegan.com and an article in The Spokesman-Review. The Spokesman-Review article devotes four paragraphs of its article to the What the Heck Fest, which it notes is "scheduled in conjunction with the quaint coastal town's annual Shipwreck day flea market". Not exactly screaming "notable". Brooklyn Vegan is a self-described "music blog", which suggests that its article is probably routine coverage. Both articles are reliable sources, but even with the earlier sources I don't think there is enough to satisfy the WP:SIGCOV portion of WP:GNG. I think JJBers Public's suggestion of a merge is a good one. ¡Bozzio! 15:25, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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