Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ROAD Fighting Championship

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 keep. (non-admin closure) buff bills 7701 12:08, 28 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

ROAD Fighting Championship

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Article on this organization was previously deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Road FC, but my CSD was removed by one of the main editors. So I've decided to put it up for AfD, just in case it's become notable. I'm not seeing significant coverage in reliable independent sources, but I'm willing to see what others say. Jakejr (talk) 02:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. When old "Road FC" article was deleted in 2011, this organization was just yeanling local promotion in very dim future. But now ROAD FC is becoming one of notable asian MMA organization which featured almost 20 events in past 5 years, especially 8 events (including confirmed upcoming events) in 2014. Some of their former champions, for example Kyung Ho Kang, Yui Chul Nam, are now fighiting in UFC, and they have now 3 reigning champions in different weight classes and scheduling to make new champions other vacant weight classes in near future. They have a lot of world class fighters including former UFC fighters (Riki Fukuda, Issei Tamura etc.), former ONE FC champion (Soo Chul Kim), world top class female fighter (Seo Hee Ham) and very prospective young fighters (Takasuke Kume ect). So there is no "notability" problem. Also this article has right wikipedia links to theire fighters and proper reliable sources for facts. IMO there's absolutely no reason to delete this article. Frenchcafe (talk) 03:27, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. Peter Rehse (talk) 06:43, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Road Less Traveled: Korea's Newest MMA Promotion Takes a Different Path
Road FC Head Moon Hong Jung Talks Development of Korean and Asian MMA
MMA and the possible looming battle for Asia?
SOUTH KOREA’S ROAD FC TO HOLD 15 SHOWS IN 2014 THROUGH PARTNERSHIP WITH CJ E&M

Above articles cannot be examples of "attributed to reliable sources"?? Not routine news articles like announcements of upcoming cards and listings of results, but covering ROAD FC in detail.. and of course written by independent publishers.Frenchcafe (talk) 12:27, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Submitting to AfD was correct. The subject has advanced quite a bit since the first article was deleted but it is unclear that it has reached the notability threshold. It is worth discussing. Generally speaking how associated fighters have done since or in the past is not really that relevant to the promotion and neither is the number of events. The improved coverage given in the article is more important. I am leaning toward Keep but want to reserve my vote till I see some more opinions.Peter Rehse (talk) 08:37, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Korea-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:44, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:44, 11 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 05:12, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep Most of the sources are routine sports coverage, but there are at least two good independent sources discussing the organization.Mdtemp (talk) 14:15, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I think there's enough coverage to meet WP:GNG. Papaursa (talk) 00:46, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but would strongly recommend improvement for this article. Notability I think is there to meet the GNG, but only barely so as established. I would recommend to the creators that they dig up more sources and more background to help firmly establish its notability. Red Phoenix ^{let's talk...} 22:01, 27 August 2014 (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.