Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ProElite 1 (event)
as no valid reasons have yet been given for deleting, as the articles clearly pass  and  because they go beyond just being on television like some weekly MLB or NFL game due to the fact these non routine events occurred months apart and are one of only a handful of internationally televised MMA promotions.  There are thousands of annual baseball and football games that are televised around the world, but that is simply not the case yet with MMA.  These are exceptional events and anyone who actually reads ghits will see as has been shown above that these events received more than just routine sports coverage due to the participation of Olympic medalist and UFC champion caliber fighters as well as because of their relevance to the history of the sport, notably the heavyweight tournament that has occurred across two of the events and the significance of the women's fights that are discussed at length in sources and not just reported upon briefly.  No one is arguing that "everything" should be on Wikipedia.  I doubt anyone here thinks made up nonsense should be on Wikipedia, but the first event of a major promotion, the first televised event of a major promotion, and event featuring a tournament to determine a promotion's champion from a promotion that is partnering with a major cable network and a major Japanese promotion is notable by any rationale stretch of the concept of notability.  And no, this is not a "vote," but the facts remain that the majority of the community who has commented here interpret policy as such that support these articles' inclusion on this site; the fact remains that no one has provided any reason why at worst these articles would not be merged and redirected to the page on the promotion itself (there are no BLP violations in the articles' histories...) and nor has anyone factually demonstrated, because no one can honestly do so, that multiple paragraph length coverage in non-mixed martial arts specific PRINT, not just online, newspapers both before and after the events that discuss these events rather than just list the results is not significant coverage in multiple sources.  Comparing the first event in a promotion's history with any bi-weekly or what have you baseball game is apples and oranges.  Comparing an event that features a tournament round is not comparable with a regular season game.  Comparing an event that occurs months apart from the previous one and when that event is from one of the handful of currently televised promotions (UFC, Bellator, and Strikeforce being among some of the only others currently) is also not a really valid or fair comparison.  No one here has argued that events from local promotions receiving one or two sources that just list results should be covered.  No one here has said all MMA events are "notable", but what the majority of editors are saying is that something discussed at length both before and after beyond routine results from major websites (Sherdog, MMAFighting) and major newspapers (USA Today) and that is televised on a well-known cable network (HDNet) that features an undefeatd Olympic medalist and two former UFC champions as well as tournament bouts is worthy of at best continued improvement and at worst merging and redirecting.  There is simply no purpose, no actual benefit to anyone by taking the needlessly drastic and unjustifiable step of outright redlinking these pages.  By contrast.  Surely "ProElite 1" is at worst a valid search term and given their partnership with Dream and the continuation of the heavyweight tournament, their notability is if anything only increasing as well as reader interest in these in addition to journalistic coverage of them as articles on future events will likely refer back to the three that got it all started
— User:WR, 21:37, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:ROUTINE||WP:SPORTSEVENT (Wikipedia:Notability)