Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival
some properly independent sources can be found.  It's easy to fall into the trap that "many sources = notability".  But this can overestimate the notability of commercial entities that employ PR people to place stories in the press - and this is particularly true of one-off events whose commercial success relies on creating a 'buzz' in their local area. So I'd be particularly wary of sources for this article from California, and in the run-up to the event (ie October/November). Don't forget the first criterion of  - '''Independence of the sources from the subject'''.  This is not true of even 1000-word newspaper articles that just rehash corporate press releases. In fact for this kind of event I'd almost put more  weight on directory listings as long as they showed some kind of genuinely '''independent editorial judgement''' being made.  So for instance I'd be really impressed if it was in a list in Le Monde or the Sydney Morning Herald of "The Top 10 Food Festivals In The World" - in fact that kind of thing might even make it a Mid rather than a Low. Conversely I would put no weight on an LA Times list of "All food festivals in California". My feeling is that this is probably unnotable, but am prepared to change my mind if people can find multiple, '''genuinely independent''' references within the next week or two.  That San Diego Union-Tribune piece is definitely not one such, it reads as little better than advertorial
— User:FlagSteward, 13:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
Stance: delete
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