Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miss BC
I originally closed this unaware of the sock-puppetry situation. I'll give my reasoning for that here, and let somebody else decide, then: many of the arguments very obviously fall into WP:AADD (eg. "This pageant is a big deal in BC..." which is ). What remains are the two conflicting statements "next to no coverage in reliable sources" and "there seems to be substantial and ongoing coverage of this pageant in multiple reliable sources". Only one of these two can be true. A look at the references cited, despite the issues of cite-bombing ( which I pointed out at the time), seems to render the delete argument invalid ("references don't demonstrate notability" was also particularly puzzling, there's AFAIK no requirement that references demonstrate that a subject is "notable" or otherwise "extraordinary", only that they cover said subject to an appreciable depth), since a lot of those references are indeed coverage about the pageant (or it's winners...) in reliable independent sources
— User:RandomCanadian, 19:24, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PLEASEDONT||WP:DINC (Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions)