Talk:Festival Western de Saint-Tite

Deletion proposal

This article was proposed for deletion proposal on the basis that it's a Non-notable regional event

This article should NOT be deleted for various reasons, the 4 most important being:

1. It attracts every year more than half a million visitors (725 000 in 2007 according to the official site)in a tiny town with a population of 3,826 ;
2. It has been voted for 9 years in a row Best Outdoor Rodeo in North America by the International Professional Rodeo Association; and
3. It is one of the few event in the province of Quebec that is considered to have an international recognition
4. It's an event generaly known by a majority of the population of the province of Quebec. The city of St-Tite is generaly known because of the festival

However, it's hard to improve the article now because most of the information about the size of the event is founded only on the official web-page of the organisation, with no independant references. However, having grown up in St-Tite, this is not a fictionnal event.

The festival is obviously not just a regional event, and as well it is quite notable

This article should be classified as a stub and will eventually grow as more references will be available

I am therefore removing the deletion proposal User:S23678 —Preceding comment was added at 03:36, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

If this festival is notable, there should be newspaper articles and other secondary sources that at least mention it. Even if you were to expand the article with more information from the website, it would be good. At the moment, the article is very short and gives almost no information about the festival. Dana boomer (talk) 12:03, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

{It has been voted for 9 years in a row Best Outdoor Rodeo in North America by the International Professional Rodeo Association} - well the IPRA do not list it at all on their web site. Twhanna (talk) 22:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC) http://www.iprarodeo.com/septemberlistings.htmlI cannot find any mention of this event on their site Twhanna (talk) 22:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Before making such claims you should do a little more research... Dale Yerigan, Executive Director of the IPRA, even participated in events in St-Tite!... Geez... Kenny Rogers went there to sing his songs and Alan Jackson was there in 2010. This festival is far from being a local event or else international stars wouldn't waste their time there...

Proof ( I let you use Google Translate for this one: http://www.lhebdomekinacdeschenaux.com/Economie/Affaires/2009-01-29/article-573191/Saint-Tite-presente-le-meilleur-rodeo-exterieur-en-Amerique-du-Nord/1 )

I went on the IPRA's website. The IPRA does list it, many times on their website... You simply didn't search well enough. Here's a link to a page that proves St-Tite is part of their association. : http://www.iprarodeo.com/ArchivesAugustSeptemberResults.html ( these are the archives of the past years... Simply make your browser search for "St-Tite" and you should see it ). As you will see, contestants earn much more money during this festival when compared to most of the other rodeos because, should I have to make it clearer, Le Festival Western de St-Tite is one of the biggest outdoor western festival in the world!!!...

I'm sorry to say that but this is what made me quit Wikipedia a bunch of years ago, people who have no idea what they're talking about trying to deal with articles they shouldn't deal with because of their lack of knowledge on the subject. --Kommienezuspadt (talk) 05:53, 27 February 2011 (UTC)