Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Digital Revolutions Film Workshop

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 redirect to British Computer Society. (non-admin closure) Dori ☾Talk ⁘ Contribs☽ 02:18, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Digital Revolutions Film Workshop

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This was a small one-off competition; article could well have been advertising; there is one (valid) citation from the time, 2010, but the single event is fundamentally not notable and given its ephemeral nature it is not worth merging with BCS or Sheffield Doc/Fest (two different articles, so merge would be tricky at best). Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:09, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:07, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:08, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect and merge per WP:EVENT to its organizing body, the British Computer Society, until such time as the topic has enough independent notability under that guideline to then merit a separate artcle. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 18:12, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

If the event were ongoing, this would be feasible, but it was a one-off several years back, so fresh sources do not appear likely to emerge. Worse, the BCS article does not describe other one-off events; there would be thousands of them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:28, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We do not expect ongoing coverage of something that happened once in the past, as "ongoing" might have had it meet notability requirements for a separate article. What we do have are sources telling us that the organization held this "Digital Revolutions workshop" and film competition,[1][2][3][4] AND even were it to never hapen again, that's enough under policy to allow a trimmed mention in the parent article, even if not meriting a separate article. No more. No less. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 19:11, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Very thoroughly trimmed, I hope. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:40, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. Very trimmed and NOW done in anticipation of the redirect. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 19:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Neatly done, but it does give a lot of prominence to this one-off event, ranking it among the major steps in the BCS's history, which really it isn't. The BCS runs an enormous number of short events (an evening, a day, a week) and this is honestly only one of them. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:25, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Tnanks. I had noticed myself that the BCS article is pretty much only a description of its history, hierarchy, and membership. Perhaps by expanding on their works in another section,[5] we can encourage that the article grow? Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 21:10, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 06:48, 13 June 2012 (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.