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Contested prod. An annual convention which attracts a whopping 100 people speaks for the notability of the organization. No citations in current article. Non-notable association. Searches in News, Highbeam, and Newspapers returned zero results. Books returned some hits, but all appeared to be either trivial mentions, or mirrors of this wikipedia stub.
Onel5969TT me 11:55, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete, no coverage here beyond mentions in blogs and trade and personal websites
: Noyster (talk), 11:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete – Does not meet
WP:N, verified after several source searches. North America1000 00:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep - Looks notable to science fiction of this nation. The Estonian name gets a few hits at
news Estonia's a fairly small nation, and its language isn't English, so yeah you're not going to find a whole lot. But they apparently give awards even American writers notice.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 02:08, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Or, as an alternative, I could support deleting this but making an article on
Estonian science fiction and mention this group in that article.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 02:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:28, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Explanation (why to keep) - I am the author of this Estonian Science Fiction Association text and i want to explain a bit. Like T. Anthony already said Estonian sci-fi club and community uses mostly estonian language and its official international name Estonian Science Fiction Association is not widely used because inside the country we use estonian version "Eesti Ulmeühing" ("ulme" is word for the science fiction). In addition to that Estonian sci-fi community is quite big and strong organization but unluckily a little-known in the wide world and does not have a connections to other foreign clubs/scenes. And this caused the problem that searches in English news, highbeam, and newspapers returned zero results. I can share tons of links to Estonian webs, but these are in estonia language and therefore usless for english wiki readers. --
Metsavana (
talk) 16:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
DeleteMetsavana, I'm sympathetic, but @en Wikipedia is not to be used to promote your organization. That goes against our guidelines
wp:promo. We have specific rules for organization notability
wp:corp and we have to follow them for everyone. You can, however, add it to the
List_of_science_fiction_conventions with a link. That would be a logical place for people to look, since they won't know the name of your convention in order to search for it.
LaMona (
talk) 03:33, 20 October 2015 (UTC)reply
question When informing world about the existence of Estonian sc-fi scene is promote then i am guilty. Do I understand correctly that in English Wikipedia should have only in English-speaking web existing and mentioned things? Perhaps I just miss the en.wikipedia.org principle.
Metsavana (
talk) 12:20, 20 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment - Not at all
Metsavana - it is simply a question of notability. It would make no difference if this article was about the Arizona Science Fiction Association. If it doesn't meet notability criteria (see
WP:GNG and in this case, since it's an organization,
WP:NORG). BTW, there is a Baja Arizona Science Fiction Association, which is not notable enough for its own article.
Onel5969TT me 13:09, 20 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment - A
WP:OSE argument not germane to the discussion. Feel free to research those articles and nom any of them for AfD if they don't meet the notability criteria, as this article clearly doesn't.
Onel5969TT me 00:58, 22 October 2015 (UTC)reply
OSE is an essay, not a guideline or anything. Perhaps things have changed, but traditionally an organization being nationally significant was significance. There are sources in Estonian.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 02:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Never said it was a "guideline or anything". Simply said that it should be consulted for guidance in this instance, which, if you read it, it says in its opening paragraph. It's totally appropriate based on your argument. And you still don't address the lack of notability of the group in the article. Regardless, take it easy.
Onel5969TT me 04:05, 22 October 2015 (UTC)reply
It tends to be harder to show notability of things in small non-English speaking nations. There are articles in
Postimees.
[1][2] Although I didn't find anything in
The Baltic Times so maybe it would make sense to delete this and just have an
Estonian science fiction article instead.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 08:38, 22 October 2015 (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.
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.
Contested prod. An annual convention which attracts a whopping 100 people speaks for the notability of the organization. No citations in current article. Non-notable association. Searches in News, Highbeam, and Newspapers returned zero results. Books returned some hits, but all appeared to be either trivial mentions, or mirrors of this wikipedia stub.
Onel5969TT me 11:55, 8 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete, no coverage here beyond mentions in blogs and trade and personal websites
: Noyster (talk), 11:57, 15 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Delete – Does not meet
WP:N, verified after several source searches. North America1000 00:17, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Keep - Looks notable to science fiction of this nation. The Estonian name gets a few hits at
news Estonia's a fairly small nation, and its language isn't English, so yeah you're not going to find a whole lot. But they apparently give awards even American writers notice.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 02:08, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Or, as an alternative, I could support deleting this but making an article on
Estonian science fiction and mention this group in that article.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 02:12, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:28, 16 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Explanation (why to keep) - I am the author of this Estonian Science Fiction Association text and i want to explain a bit. Like T. Anthony already said Estonian sci-fi club and community uses mostly estonian language and its official international name Estonian Science Fiction Association is not widely used because inside the country we use estonian version "Eesti Ulmeühing" ("ulme" is word for the science fiction). In addition to that Estonian sci-fi community is quite big and strong organization but unluckily a little-known in the wide world and does not have a connections to other foreign clubs/scenes. And this caused the problem that searches in English news, highbeam, and newspapers returned zero results. I can share tons of links to Estonian webs, but these are in estonia language and therefore usless for english wiki readers. --
Metsavana (
talk) 16:48, 18 October 2015 (UTC)reply
DeleteMetsavana, I'm sympathetic, but @en Wikipedia is not to be used to promote your organization. That goes against our guidelines
wp:promo. We have specific rules for organization notability
wp:corp and we have to follow them for everyone. You can, however, add it to the
List_of_science_fiction_conventions with a link. That would be a logical place for people to look, since they won't know the name of your convention in order to search for it.
LaMona (
talk) 03:33, 20 October 2015 (UTC)reply
question When informing world about the existence of Estonian sc-fi scene is promote then i am guilty. Do I understand correctly that in English Wikipedia should have only in English-speaking web existing and mentioned things? Perhaps I just miss the en.wikipedia.org principle.
Metsavana (
talk) 12:20, 20 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment - Not at all
Metsavana - it is simply a question of notability. It would make no difference if this article was about the Arizona Science Fiction Association. If it doesn't meet notability criteria (see
WP:GNG and in this case, since it's an organization,
WP:NORG). BTW, there is a Baja Arizona Science Fiction Association, which is not notable enough for its own article.
Onel5969TT me 13:09, 20 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Comment - A
WP:OSE argument not germane to the discussion. Feel free to research those articles and nom any of them for AfD if they don't meet the notability criteria, as this article clearly doesn't.
Onel5969TT me 00:58, 22 October 2015 (UTC)reply
OSE is an essay, not a guideline or anything. Perhaps things have changed, but traditionally an organization being nationally significant was significance. There are sources in Estonian.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 02:17, 22 October 2015 (UTC)reply
Never said it was a "guideline or anything". Simply said that it should be consulted for guidance in this instance, which, if you read it, it says in its opening paragraph. It's totally appropriate based on your argument. And you still don't address the lack of notability of the group in the article. Regardless, take it easy.
Onel5969TT me 04:05, 22 October 2015 (UTC)reply
It tends to be harder to show notability of things in small non-English speaking nations. There are articles in
Postimees.
[1][2] Although I didn't find anything in
The Baltic Times so maybe it would make sense to delete this and just have an
Estonian science fiction article instead.--
T. Anthony (
talk) 08:38, 22 October 2015 (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.