Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 Women (BBC)

100 Women (BBC)

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AfD created by request at Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion. TimothyJosephWood 16:06, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

The requesting anonymous user posted the following on the article's talk page:

I have nominated this page for deletion. The campaign does not meet the notability requirement that 'the topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject'. The references on the page are just to official 'BBC 100 Women' campaign pages (certainly not independent of the subject). Searching further, there is little evidence that the campaign is influential enough to be given substantial coverage in independent third-party sources. Compare this to the attention given to Time Person of the Year, for example. 2A00:23C4:A683:6A00:C414:D65C:FA3:A059 (talk) 16:00, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

• Comment - I am not conviced it could not survive as a list; it should be looked into further before the axe falls. Kierzek (talk) 16:12, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
• Support deletion as the nominator. As it stands, the campaign's article is little more than trivia: a long list of names without much context. The campaign has not gathered adequate attention from independent, reliable sources to warrant a dedicated Wikipedia article. 2A00:23C4:A683:6A00:C414:D65C:FA3:A059 (talk) 16:16, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

• Keep. This is absurd. This page should be kept. I think there is a misunderstanding about this entry. It is very high profile, is the subject of a BBC article, and Women in Red as well as BBC UK are spearheading this effort. Deleting this article also makes Wikipedia look terrible. Just a bad idea all around. KEEP! -- Erika aka BrillLyle (talk) 16:34, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

The problem is the project is made by the BBC: they are just advertising their own project. Where is the decent coverage in sources independent of the subject? There is very little of substance. 2A00:23C4:A683:6A00:C414:D65C:FA3:A059 (talk) 16:40, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:46, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:46, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:55, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Keep Crazy! The project is not about the BBC, its about 100 women and 70-80% of them are VERY notable. They are notable (in part) because they get coverage from lots of media sources including the BBC. Nearly every country in the world has run articles about whether people from their country is on this list. There are editathons happening around the world involving dozens of Wikipedians and several chapters. Chances of this getting deleted? Zero. This is too silly. Victuallers (talk) 17:06, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

• Keep I'm going to add the independent sources to the article itself. A little digging like I did would have cleared up the matter swiftly. Please look at the main page for sources. Also, when do we let anonymous posters do AfD by proxy?Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:10, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

• Delete The BBC is great, the people honored are great, however this article is not an article about the event. It is really just a reposting of the lists. Each person already has her own article.Kitfoxxe (talk) 17:12, 6 December 2016 (UTC)