Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UFC 9

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 no consensus. T. Canens (talk) 16:23, 26 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

UFC 9

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This event fails WP:NOT, WP:EVENT, WP:SPORTSEVENT, and WP:NOTNEWSPAPER as there is no indication that the event has any enduring notability and lasting significance. Portillo (talk) 09:23, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per WP:SPORTSEVENT, this event determined the champion of a top league so it satisfies the notability guideline. BearMan998 (talk) 21:37, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. TreyGeek (talk) 15:14, 19 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note to closer This nomination was not listed in the deletion log, listing it now. Monty ₈₄₅ 06:03, 1 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, MacMed^talk _stalk 17:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Notability is forever, something can't loose it and the UFC has it Seasider91 (talk) 19:39, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The only reference in the article has only one sentence about the event, and the one sentence appears to say that the event took place in Colorado; while other sources say the event took place in Michigan. With no inline citations, this can be deleted as a WP:V failure. Also fails WP:NOT as WP:NOTNEWSPAPER, and as a pay-per-view promotion. Unscintillating (talk) 06:18, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why has this being relisted? The UFC is a yearly event that is well known even outside of the MMA world. This event determines who is the best in the world, this nomination screams of WP:POINT also as this event took place in the 90's don't you think it would be hard to find internet sources? Things like this need non internet sources, hopefully common sense prevails in this case Seasider91 (talk) 19:32, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per WP:SPORTSEVENT, this event determined the champion of a top league so it satisfies the notability guideline. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.100.97.195 (talk) 07:36, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Per WP:SPORTSEVENT, which has been used as justification to keep other UFC articles and would seem to be as valid here. Also, there's at least one WP:RS talking about the show after the fact, on Yahoo, which does also go into the significance of the event. CaSJer (talk) 17:39, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and redirect to List of UFC events: With a single cite to a sports website that talks about the sport, not the event itself, and external links to sport-related websites, not even a newspaper article, the article doesn't provide evidence that the coverage received by the event is in any way different from routine coverage or significant beyond the event itself, so I believe that the article falls into what Wikipedia is not as a news report at best. A couple of sources, of which only one actually addresses the event, does not mean that the article has received significant coverage beyond routine, so I believe that the UFC 9 event as a subject is unsuitable for inclusion since it falls into what Wikipedia is not. The UFC was unregulated, it is not a sports league and the event itself did not receive significant non-routine coverage, so I do not think that it meets the sports notability criteria for individual games or series, and that guideline does not exempt the article from the what Wikipedia is not policy anyway. Jfgslo (talk) 04:12, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I see sources. Call it a sports league or not, it can have an article here. Darryl from Mars (talk) 07:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets the guidelines of WP:SPORTSEVENT. I would also agree that a redirect would be nice; however, most of the events that are cited in List of UFC events also have their own articles. --SimonKnowsAll (talk) 23:02, 25 July 2012 (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.