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Delete The article has no actual references at all. A search turns up plenty of primary sources but no discussion in secondary sources.
GoldenRing (
talk) 09:16, 19 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep. Searching on just the club name is insufficient, as it is an insider-type joke name and doesn't come up in all coverage of the club or its participation in events. Search on "concrete canoe" and "Illinois" and you get hits like: New York Times "Out of Concrete and Drudgery Come Canoes That Float", Fountain, Henry. New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) [New York, N.Y] 24 June 2013: A.11., a full article about the last annual concrete canoe competition which Illinois hosted. Perhaps the article title should be broadened, as the club name is too narrow, and the article seems to be the main article in Wikipedia introducing the bigger topic. Perhaps this article should be expanded/moved to
National Concrete Canoe Competition (currently a redlink). I see
Concrete canoe#Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition and I see
Christian Brothers University#ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition. This article, anyhow, is a solid, good start and should be Kept. Expanding/moving/developing related articles should be discussed at its Talk page. --
doncram 23:26, 20 May 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
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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.
Delete The article has no actual references at all. A search turns up plenty of primary sources but no discussion in secondary sources.
GoldenRing (
talk) 09:16, 19 May 2014 (UTC)reply
Keep. Searching on just the club name is insufficient, as it is an insider-type joke name and doesn't come up in all coverage of the club or its participation in events. Search on "concrete canoe" and "Illinois" and you get hits like: New York Times "Out of Concrete and Drudgery Come Canoes That Float", Fountain, Henry. New York Times, Late Edition (East Coast) [New York, N.Y] 24 June 2013: A.11., a full article about the last annual concrete canoe competition which Illinois hosted. Perhaps the article title should be broadened, as the club name is too narrow, and the article seems to be the main article in Wikipedia introducing the bigger topic. Perhaps this article should be expanded/moved to
National Concrete Canoe Competition (currently a redlink). I see
Concrete canoe#Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition and I see
Christian Brothers University#ASCE National Concrete Canoe Competition. This article, anyhow, is a solid, good start and should be Kept. Expanding/moving/developing related articles should be discussed at its Talk page. --
doncram 23:26, 20 May 2014 (UTC)reply
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