Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/November Theatre

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 speedy keep. Per WP:SK#1, nomination withdrawn and no outstanding delete !votes. (non-admin closure) Sam Sailor ^Talk! 19:19, 17 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

November Theatre

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The article is created and authored by the person who runs it (see de prod note) and contains no external sources. Does it pass the threshold GNG? Legacypac (talk) 07:06, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 11:07, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A hard term to search for but it does have its own entry in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 11:24, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:13, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 17:13, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Article definitely needs sourcing improvement, but the source that Shawn listed above confirms and bolsters notability — the world English premiere of The Black Rider, one of the single most notable contemporary operas of the past two decades, certainly counts for something. And for the record, a WP:COI is not, in and of itself, a reason to delete an article if proper referencing (such as an entry in the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia) does exist to clean it up with. Keep and flag for refimprove. Bearcat (talk) 18:55, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep November Theatre clearly meets WP:GNG. A quick WP:BEFORE search quickly reveals this. I remind the nominator that AFD is not cleanup. Mkdw ^talk 19:12, 15 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Respectfully, Shawn said it was not easy to search, but based on his findings I am happy to WITHDRAW Legacypac (talk) 01:47, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Canadian Encyclopedia shows up as the fourth result for me. Perhaps it's biased since I used Google.ca. Nonetheless, thank you for your reconsideration. Mkdw ^talk 15:35, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I think maybe Shawn just forgot to constrain the search with an extra "Edmonton" and/or "Vancouver" — while admittedly the phrase is generic enough that it doesn't Google very well on its own (there appear, for example, to be at least a couple of other theatres in the world with the exact same name, and it'll also run up against usages like "Our November theatre calendar..."), it does Google much more easily with the extra geographical location terms. Bearcat (talk) 18:11, 16 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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