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The result was delete. Beeblebrox (talk) 04:51, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Being Born Again Couture Fashion Show

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This one night event was covered only once, in 2010, by reliable local sources. I have not been able to find reliable sources for the 2011 event, and, should they come up, I would be surprised if they would testify of significant coverage. This show may grow into something notable into the future, but I don't think we are quite there yet. Racconish Tk 17:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - promo creation of a not very wiki noteworthy event by a COI user - a minor merge to the parent article should suffice. The detail is already there ( see - Davina Reichman ) but a minor merge perhaps Off2riorob (talk) 18:01, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Based upon talk page research here [1] as well as my own inability to turn up any significant reliable source coverage that was not only promotional material from the lead-up to the event it appears this show is non-notable for Wikipedia. The bulk of coverage I can find is event announcements, and some of the coverage there is not about the show itself, but the brand. Overall it seems to fail WP:GNG. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 18:07, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fashion-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:11, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The source for which you are providing a link was in the article when nominated. As you can see here, it has been removed by another editor. I suspect this is because this source mentioned Emily Fitzgerald, the other founder of the show. You can read here the explanation provided by the other editor. Concerning the sources indicated on the web site of the show, can you point to one significant one which would not be self-published?Racconish Tk 23:47, 7 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Being Born Again Couture, Sydney Morning Herald Style Insert, 22 April 2010. It also had that image and a mention of that section on the front cover of that notable newspaper. They also list various notable magazines. Dream Focus 05:34, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Concerning the SMH, I see here and here a picture with no caption and no mention of the show. Do I miss something? And I don't see in the list another source that is not used and could be considered reliable. In any case, I don't think the threshold of notability is finding another ref for the 2010 show: it would still be a single event, at least in terms of reliable coverage.Racconish Tk 07:26, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The subject's pressbook is not acceptable as a reference in and of itself. It might well lead to citable material, however not everything the subject adds to its scrapbook is automatically substantial (non-trivial), reliable, third-party, notable, or even multiple, etc. Nobody has said the subject fabricated anything, though certain editors here using those articles have, in fact, synthesized improperly from them. It's extremely problematic when an editor here is willing to say "look at all the press the subject gathered about itself," without so much as a cursory confirmation of the contents. It shows a failure to understand why the subject isn't in the best position to report on itself or to decide what's reliable, notable, or even actual coverage. The subject may include ANYTHING IT WANTS, even when it might be objectively questionable. Supporting articles for a subject that is vain enough to scrapbook its own unsubstantial or irrelevant coverage, on the basis of the scrapbook itself, is foolhardy. When the words are right there to check – as in the case of "Art Weaves Its Spell" – and remove all doubt that it's not actually covering the subject, mentioning it here as coverage at all moves away from foolhardy toward dishonest. JFHJr (㊟) 17:08, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - per comments above, SPS, COI, persistent uncivil attitude of COI editors making this article "unstable" by war editing and sheer ignorance and disregard for policies. Ma®©usBritish [Chat • RFF] 14:28, 8 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • But edit-warring and ignorance are not reasons for deletion. Otherwise we'd have no articles on the Balkan or Justin Bieber. Drmies (talk) 02:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't believe in "buts" – articles are sometimes deleted after AFD and prevented from being recreated due to considerable disputes over content – the Alex Day article had this problem and recreation block applied. When articles reach a high enough level of disruption that it takes too much time to keep dealing with them, and wastes more editors time than is necessary, especially in the case of a trivial Stub such as this, rather than a BLP as long as Justin B. it's not worth the bandwidth – trash and block until someone comes up with a sandbox draft worth considering, simple as that. Also, in this case, Dom and Davina's friends are simply being pig-headed addlepated, as you have seen. Ma®©usBritish [Chat • RFF] 02:51, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        • I believe in pork butt. I am a member of the bacon cabal, co-writer of Bacon explosion, author of the Ham template: please don't insult the little porkers by calling these editors "pig-headed". My point, though, remains: you may call for salt to prevent disruptive recreation, and I'll be glad to salt it for you, but that in itself is no reason for deletion. Drmies (talk) 04:05, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Optionally redirect to Davina Reichman, but I'm not sure that article is much less problematic and in the very same ways, for the very same reasons. While it's true past and ongoing SPS and COI activity have zero bearing here, they do explain why these articles are here at all. This event is not the subject of the WP:BASIC requirement of significant, reliable, and independent coverage. JFHJr (㊟) 16:16, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • SpeedyStrong Keep - Per availability of reliable sources:
  • Safe, Georgina (19 February 2010). "Designers put their art into couture". The Australian. p. 5.
  • (April 22, 2010.) "Mobile Canvas, fusing fashion and art" Sydney Morning Herald.
  • (April 16-18, 2010), "What's on: Sydney." The Australian Financial Review.
  • Broughton, Cate (April 2010). "Art Weaves Its Spell." The Wentworth Courier. pp 38
  • (April 22, 2010) "Designs On You" Why wearable art has never looked so good." (Style insert). Sydney Morning Herald.
Reliable sources exist that cover the topic in detail, beyond a passing mention. Northamerica1000(talk) 17:03, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. 2 of the sources above, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review, were already referenced in the article when brought here. They were clearly not sufficient. A 3rd one, The Sydney Morning Herald, was already suggested by Dream Focus. Neither him nor Northamerica1000 have addressed my concern here above: though this source is indicated on the website of Being Born Again, there is nothing more than a picture, with no indication it is connected with Being Born Again. No text. I have found nothing on the SMH web site. I am not implying an article does not exist, but on the basis of the 2 scans available on the web site of Being Born Again, there is no way to ascertain it deals specifically with our subject. At this point, we don't even know if it is 2 different articles in the same issue or a single one. Northamerica1000 refers here above to an article entitled "Designs On You" Why wearable art has never looked so good.", while in the Ref section of the article, the title is different, "Mobile Canvas, fusing fashion and art". This suggests me he has had no further access to the source than this and that. As is, WP:SYN. Now the 4th source, The Wentworth Courier. The article is written by an intern, which does not plead for its reliability. More important, there is strictly no mention in this article of Being Born Again. It is about a "D&Em fashion label to be launched", which is not even mentioned by the 2 first sources. As is, WP:COATRACK. To summarize: these 2 last sources, not cited inline, do not deal specifically with Being Born Again. Hence, not WP:RS. Furthermore, a key issue, reminded by Orangemike is WP:TOOSOON/WP:UPANDCOMING. All these sources relate - or don't - to the April 2010 event. No reliable coverage yet on what may have happened after. — Racconish Tk 20:47, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I agree that the Wentworth Courier article by intern Cate Broughton is neither particularly reliable nor relevant in any way. It doesn't even mention the subject. In fact, this cite has previously been used in a misleading way in this article to try to show notability (see here). I also agree that two apparent SMH publications on the same day, one of which is apparently a photograph, does not show anything in the way of significant coverage. Because they offer nothing of substance for the prose of the article – they don't support any statements at all – they should be excluded from the article, and from consideration here. There's simply no difference between a blurb and the section it's pointing to; there's also no value in a picture that requires WP:OR or WP:SYNTH to make a noteworthy mention. In short, they're neither reliable (especially for the uses proposed), nor substantial. JFHJr (㊟) 16:45, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question. How could we consider as an evidence of notability a self-serving quote that announces ... something different? — Racconish Tk 18:56, 10 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Exactly. We can't. JFHJr (㊟) 05:03, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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