Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/DC101 Chili Cook-Off

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The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:55, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Local charity rock concert event. Only local sites about the event, nothing national. VERY little links and references (some are deadlinks). ALOT of original research. Fails WP:N. NeutralHomer • Talk • 08:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC) 08:14, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep radio station events are often rightly deleted, but a closer look at this one shows it attracts nationally famous artists (Third Eye Blind, Train, Staind, The Offspring) and up to 35,000 people attend. It is local (or regional) in scope, but the Washington DC metro area is by no means a small locality. And of course sources are hardly lacking either, articles in the Washington Post (example) and Washington Times (example) abound. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:15, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Washington, D.C.-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:53, 10 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Borderline keep There is mainstream reliable sourcing, local but from major outlets like NBC. And the event raises more than $1 million a year. Clearly more notable than most such events. --MelanieN (talk) 23:17, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Strong Keep. Since when is national notoriety required for an article to be kept? While regional in scope, the region includes parts of DC, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The growing concert raises over $1 million for charity annually, and has been active for over 30 years. The article is not a stub, and notable source for data are out there if one spends enough time looking for them. Jason Smith (talk) 15:46, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • If "notable source for data are out there", how about adding some? Right now, there are very few references to back up the data there. One links to a MySpace page. Let's get some references to back up these posts with the data that is "out there". - NeutralHomer • Talk • 17:04, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • I pointed out a couple of sources in my vote above. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 17:56, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      • That's great, please add them to the page. Adding them and much much more will seriously make this article more notable. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 18:57, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
        • I added two sources to the article a few days ago - from NBC-Washington and the Washington Business Journal - as I hope you noticed. --MelanieN (talk) 15:41, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The article could use a little work, but this is certainly a notable event in the region. Strikerforce (talk) 07:47, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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