Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Tom Sawyer Days

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National Tom Sawyer Days

The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) Lizthegrey (talk) 21:41, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Orphan page, excessively promotional, no independent sourcing. Possibly could see merging it into Hannibal, Missouri where the festival allegedly still happens or into Mark Twain, but it's certainly no longer a "national" event, least of all one that meets WP:N. Lizthegrey (talk) 11:05, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Events, United States of America, and Missouri. Lizthegrey (talk) 11:05, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Lightburst (talk) 13:35, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Won't comment as yet as I see Lightburst is adding to the page. But maybe add a mention, if this is still ongoing, at Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:02, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Google news search shows ample mentions of it. New York Times article is hidden behind a paywall, but the Google news search result that points to it shows the start of it reads "They call it National Tom Sawyer Days" https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/04/us/rising-spirits-a-match-for-the-rising-river-along-stretches-of-the-mississippi.html LA Times behind a paywall has an article at https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-05-15-tr-58185-story.html which the Google news search result says reads: "Hannibal keeps the Mark Twain flame burning with National Tom Sawyer Day". The Library of Congress has some results to look through. [1] The Washington Post article from July 5, 1978 says 20,000 people went to it that year. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/05/tom-sawyer-days-in-the-land-of-twain/dd719d99-a85f-4563-b1f3-8af010ecc815/ Seems to be a notable festival. Dream Focus 17:50, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 26 May 2002, Sun · Page 136 has an article about it. So does St. Joseph News-Press 24 Jun 1990, Sun · Page 47. Newspaper.com has a lot of coverage that appears. I'll add some information to the article. Dream Focus 17:54, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Dream Focus: Thanks for finding those. To get around the paywall I found an archived link for the NYTimes article and for the LATimes article. Lightburst (talk) 17:59, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this event meets our guidelines for WP:EVENTCRIT#1 and #2. The event is enduring and covered in nationally. I have reorganized and referenced the article, also it is no longer an orphan and no longer suffers from Promo tone issues. Lightburst (talk) 18:16, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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.