Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spring Harvest

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) TBrandley ^{(what's up)} 00:10, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Spring Harvest[edit]

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This article only lists references to some minor Christian webpages, their own homepage and a BBC article where a virus outbreak at the camp is mentioned back in 2003. The article does not focus on the Spring Harvest event itself and should therefore be considered a trivial mention. Zaminamina (talk) 20:32, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - It currently needs considerable improvement but searching Google Scholar for "Spring Harvest" evangelical shows plenty of sources with which to do so. --Northernhenge (talk) 22:42, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Still, only trivial mentions. Zaminamina (talk) 17:18, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trivial mentions are things like a listing in a phone book. Significant coverage begins where a trivial mention ends, so a source only needs one non-trivial concept to contain minimal significant coverage. Unscintillating (talk) 04:36, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, did I really start that article? A long time ago! So, anyone have access to [1]? That references SH, as does [2], [3], [4] and others (I am out of the loop these days and don't have academic access, but Google Scholar shows many thousands of hits, at least some of which must be relevant, given the significance of this in the UK evangelical community). Guy (Help!) 23:38, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

To control the relevance of the google scholar hits, don't forget to include "evangelical" in the search, otherwise you get agricultural stuff. I've had a look at the sources you mention and they're all useful. [2] makes the most explicit claims about notability.

[1] used the event to find a large sample of young people. "Spring Harvest 1995 was attended by approximately 5716 young people aged 12–16 years. One particular venue was the focus of a special event for students, which was attended by 1700 young people in this category."
[2] is about the contribution SH made to the evangelical movement, especially via Clive Calver, Graham Kendrick, Gerald Coates etc
[3] is publically available
[4] I don't have access to

I'm convinced this is the wrong venue to be discussing this. The article needs improvement, not deletion. --Northernhenge (talk) 19:10, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:55, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep and Improve: Scholar search shows significant mention in Journal of Contemporary Religion. Bebbington (Senior Lecturer in History at U. Stirling) mentions it as a significant meeting-place for charismatics and non-chrismatics (Evangelicalism in Modern Britain - Routledge, 2002, p.247) and others are available as per Guy above Jpacobb (talk) 19:55, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. It's an article about a notable subject and is in need of improvement, not deletion. MezzoMezzo (talk) 10:09, 24 February 2013 (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.