Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mandaue Gay Pageant

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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 06:55, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mandaue Gay Pageant

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Does not appear to be a notable pageant. The article does not cite any references, and the only sources I can find about the event are insignificant. Apparently, the event is part of Mandaue's yearly fiesta, but either way this doesn't appear to have independent notability. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 15:28, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete For a Wikipedia article to exist that article needs to note multiple reliable sources which discuss the subject of the article. This concept fails WP:GNG. Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:00, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The pageant is too local in scope even in the Philippines, and wouldn't probably meet notability guidelines for Philippine-related articles. --- Tito Pao (talk) 15:09, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep There are reliable sources and these are news articles cited and a government website. This is in tangent with WP:GNG. There is evidence that Ms Gay Mandaue pioneered in trans pageantry and local as it may be in Cebu it is widely known in Pageant circles in the Region. Regionalism is at play here to cite that a local pageant shouldn't be promoted for education and recognition. Dmitri cortes (talk) 23:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The only sources I could find were about the Mandaue fiesta as a whole rather than just the pageant. Even those that were, at first glance, about the pageant, were actually about the pageant as part of the fiesta. This could mean that Mandaue's fiesta is a notable event which warrants its own article, and I wouldn't have prejudice against this article being merged to such an article, if it existed. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:37, 23 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: It's effectively news, not encyclopedia writing. "This thing happened" is news. "This feature, frequently referred to by its name but without context, is explicable by the following contexts" is encyclopedia writing. "A ship sank" is news. "The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that sank on Lake Superior and was immortalized in a top-40 hit record by Gordon Lightfoot" is encyclopedic. When this feature of a festival is long standing, large, and, most of all, discussed enough that people need the discussions explained, it will need an article. Hithladaeus (talk) 12:52, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete due lack of notability even within the Fiesta itself. The news articles that I found just give brief mentions about it. --Lenticel ^(talk) 00:53, 27 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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