Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mad Hatter Day
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mad Hatter Day
This is a made-up holiday, without notability. Google results turn up mirror sites and personal web pages. It's certainly not an official holiday anywhere I could find. The sources used in the article are from personal home pages - not the type of sources that satisfy WP:V. Given that this is an encyclopedia, I don't think it should be used to promote nonsense. Rklawton 00:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete dumb. Danny Lilithborne 01:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, WP is not for things made up in school one day. If any of the links here were to any sort of calendar, and in fact to anything other than blog posts, that would be a different story. --- Deville (Talk) 01:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - "the holiday reportedly gained some local recognition" - nice use of passive voice to avoid having to cite a source. NawlinWiki 03:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete- with no prejudice to recreate if a couple "real" papers actually cover the event coming up here in October. 205.157.110.11 08:19, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete as per WP:NFT ST47 11:07, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete NN --Wildnox 14:38, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, WP:NFT. --Terence Ong (T | C) 14:40, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day, even if they are quite clever and have been around for a bit, unless they are mentioned in multiple reliable sources, which as far as I can tell this is not. Not an open and shut WP:NFT but not formally verifiable as far as I can tell either. Just zis Guy you know? 18:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- We should be careful it's not something like Pi Celebration Day. DebRA's Mad Hatter Day seems unrelated but if it's annually celebrated probably more notable than the one we have listed.- Mgm|(talk) 20:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- True. One thing I checked was the "Fictional Holidays" category under which this article had been categorized. Most of the articles tagged with that category were just that - holidays taken from works of fiction. All (or most) of the works of fiction were notable, and the holidays contained therein were verifiable. I tagged one or two other made-up holidays that weren't part of fictions for deletion just as I did this one. Rklawton 23:46, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
- 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.
