Deletion of Miss Alabama Teen USA

Comment: or Redirect to Miss Teen USA. These have no independent notability from the parent pageant. They are state level feeder pageants that can be addressed in the main article if there is something particularly noteworthy about a particular one. Guidance can be drawn from  which states in part {{green|"as a general rule, the individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not considered notable enough to warrant a separate article – ''unless they are substantially discussed by reliable independent sources that extend beyond the chapter's local area''."}}(emp. added). The reasoning behind  also has some applicability - {{green|"there is generally very little to say about individual ... franchises that is not true for the chain in general
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BRANCH||WP:CHAIN)

Comment: the two "Keep" examples are from 2015 & |consensus can change. There's no codified consensus that the state-level teen pageants should be considered notable; the coverage is routine
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Consensus (WP:CCC)

Comment: For one thing, two of the pageants in the system (Ohio and Rhode Island) survived their deletion nominations (both as "keep") only about two years ago.  For another, having a list of winners serves an encyclopedic purpose, but trying to merge all 51 lists into the parent article is not a practical approach.  Having separate by-state articles is an appropriate approach under 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SPINOUT)

Comment: overcoverage of a minor derivative pageant" sums it up well. Not notable on their own. Notability requirements apply to  articles; if they are non-notable, then it becomes the case of |indiscriminate collection of information
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SPINOUT||WP:NOT)

Comment: per notable state pageants for selection for top pageant Miss Teen USA. A textbook application of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SPINOUT)

Comment: all to Miss Teen USA as per -R. I added the Find sources templates to the nomination above (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Miss_Alabama_Teen_USA&diff=824746576&oldid=824744647 diff), and many of these have received coverage in news sources, but much of the coverage is local and regional in nature. Redirecting with a potential for selective merging is functional as per -M as well
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:ATD||WP:ATD)

Comment: Although the individual state-level pageants are not independently notable, this seems to me to be a textbook application of , removing detail on subtopics into separate articles
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Article size (WP:SPINOUT)

Comment: As the state pageants are notable in their own right, even if the individual winners may not be.  Also, even in absence of that, these should pass a test to survive as stand-alone lists per   and the guidance as  explicitly addresses the concern about the listed persons not being notable, stating ''If the person is |famous for a specific event, the notability requirement need not be met
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists (WP:STANDALONE||WP:LISTPEOPLE||WP:BLP1E)