Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SHINE

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The result of the debate was KEEP. Postdlf 23:30, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

SHINE

No, not cinematic shlock this time: blatant advertising for some Singaporean jamboree. -- Hoary 04:06, 2005 May 29 (UTC)

• Delete, not notable, advertising. Megan1967 05:13, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete ad --Xcali 05:21, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
• D advertisement Fawcett5 04:21, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
• If this is advertising, so is this "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2005". Then we should delete Expo 2005, shouldn't we? .... comment added at 06:40, 2005 May 31 by 160.96.97.251
  • Why should the claim that SHINE is advertising imply that Expo 2005 is advertising? (Incidentally, please sign your contributions to talk and VfD pages. You do this by hitting the twiddle key four times: "~~~~". Thank you.) -- Hoary 07:04, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
• Keep. Some googling establishes clear notability, it's a big event. I've started to try to remove the advert/promo tone. func(talk) 08:30, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but clean up. Sounds like a notable festival, worthy of an encyclopedic article. Hey, if I can write an article about a for-profit BDSM convention, then surely others can write articles about youth festivals? — JIP | Talk 08:32, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete still looks like advertising. JamesBurns 07:18, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Have a look at BoundCon (which I wrote) or Expo 2005. Wikipedia certainly seems to allow articles about organised public events, even for-profit ones. Perhaps the article should be edited to give a more neutral, less enthuatistic view? Maybe trim down the external links? — JIP | Talk 15:50, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. To those demanding its removal for being an advertisement, why dont you be bold and change its tone instead of simply voting delete?--Huaiwei 12:45, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. What is wrong with you deletionists? This is a very notable festival, will probably be annual, and even endorsed by the Government of Singapore in itself. It suffered NPOV problems, but what do you want to do. Wait I know! Lets delete Hari Raya Puasa, or Deepavali! Yeah! Excellent idea! Because its advertising! Heck, lets delete Culture of Singapore! Yeah! After all, if you don't even recognise the notability of this festival (which is quite a recent development and hence does not have elaboration of the topic by many editors currently), why would you recognise the notability of those articles? -- Natalinasmpf 15:52, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Important event, significant to youth culture. Vsion 06:33, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• For once I say keep. Although I've been out of touch from stuff happening in SG for a year now, experience (haha) tells me that any SG-government-funded/organised propagandafest is notable. :) -Hmib 08:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • LOL!!!! :D--Huaiwei 15:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. — Instantnood 15:16, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

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