Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miss Globe International

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. The article meets WP:ORG in that there are newspaper sources which deal with the event in a non-trivial manner. There is concern though, that there are no sources cited in the article itself, and that the bulk of the article is a list of people which impacts upon BLP considerations. While accepting both the consensus view of this AfD and the consensus of the appropriate guideline to keep the article, I am concerned at the state of the article. As the content concerns BLP matters, and the content has been challenged, I shall remove the contentious list of people from the article. None of the people should be replaced in the article until there is a reliable source for them. SilkTork *^YES! 01:07, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Miss Globe International

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This is a non-notable pageant. The article was created by the organizers and being maintained by 7 people from the Miss Globe Organization, as per statement of the owner. The owner, Rasim Aydin, and his staff continue to edit the article despite the issue of Conflict of Interest. They have been warned several times. The winners of the pageant have no (or barely) any mainstream news agency (like Associated Press or Reuters) that picks up the story. If there's any publicity or promotion, it is done mostly through blogs, paid advertisements, and personal non-notable websites. The content of the article is based on original research as claimed by the organizers. The organizers are not even sure of the history of the pageant and its previous winners. The list of winners seem fictitious and unverifiable. Here's the Wikipedia User Talk of the president of Miss Globe pageant. Angel Clinton (talk) 05:10, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• Question: if the article goes, then so go the winners, such as Jennifer Schooler, if they have no other claim to fame, right? (I ask this not just of the nominator but of any knowledgeable passer-by.) Drmies (talk) 00:31, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
• Keep. Never mind my question above; a Google News search reveals pretty quickly that the subject is notable--see [1], [2], and [3], for instance. The terrible state of the article and the obvious COI problems do not take away from the fact that this pageant seems to be notable enough to pass WP:N (note, nominator, that that is of the essence here--not the editors or the current state of the article). Drmies (talk) 00:35, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
• Keep Just because the behavior of some editors is suspect, doesn't mean the subject isn't notable.--Rebel1916 (talk) 03:56, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
• Keep' per Drmies.--Milowent (talk) 05:34, 9 March 2010 (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.