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Article Deletion

This Wikipedia article seems thoroughly unnecessary. The Pittsburgh Folk Festival, while a long-standing Pittsburgh tradition, doesn't appear to be notable enough to warrant its own article, as per WP:N. This is further supported by the fact that the entire article consists of two sentences and no external sources (other than the Festival's own website), and there hasn't been much effort to expand the article since its creation over seven years ago. As such, I am proposing this article be deleted, but if anyone has any objections to this, let's talk about it here. Thanks. Ilva (talk) 13:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This Folk Festival has been going on every year for 60 years now, and I just attended it yesterday in Schenley Plaza. It seems to be alive and well, with plenty of interesting multicultural folk dancing, music, food, as well as arts and crafts, so I would say this event, which is an established Pittsburgh tradition, is definitely notable enough for inclusion on Wikipedia. I'll try to add some pictures and more information to the page and hopefully that will help "jazz it up" a little for the digitally-minded people of today. Leepaxton (talk) 21:00, 4 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]