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Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships

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Non-Notable student debating competition - on a Google search top 2 hits are WP. No GNews hits, one minor Google Books hit, no Google Scholar hits. Seems that there is not much coverage outside specialist debate sites and blogs; does not seem to have it's own website. Not sure that the page meets WP:V as all the post 2002 information is un-sourced and given the lack of third party coverage also think it fails WP:GNG along with WP:ORG and WP:CLUB guidelines. Codf1977 (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. —Codf1977 (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. —Codf1977 (talk) 14:42, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - well, there are a couple of hits in Google new archives. Here's one that says they are "One of the world's largest debating tournaments, the Australs are second only in size to the World Universities Debating Championship". Gatoclass (talk) 17:44, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Followup comment - looks as if there may be plenty of sources for this, see this google page. Gatoclass (talk) 17:51, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Need to careful here - the Australs are a different competition - a regional one - the Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships are only open to Australian universities - when you do the same search but with quotes you only get two hits - one from Scoop.co.nz - which is talking about the Australs and the other looks like a 'Diary' saying when the event runs.Codf1977 (talk) 18:53, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The nominator's rationale says it all. A search for sources indicates no significant coverage outside the very narrow world of university student debating. --Mkativerata (talk) 20:11, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- keep- I think it has enough notability, even if most of the sources are just local papers and such. The google search is also probably suffering from poor use of search terms (as the IV is often referred to as "easters" or an abbreviated or shortened version of the title. I think a more thorough search would easily reveal enough sources.JJJ999 (talk) 22:59, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]