Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belfast Marathon
the recent |promotional edits unfortunately ended up removing virtually all the references and making the article look like an advertisement, so the article {{oldid2|1024156271|when it was nominated}} for deletion made the event look a lot less notable than it actually is.  however, Guliolopez did a good job restoring the article to an acceptable quality.{{pb}}according to https://web.archive.org/web/20181204015321/https://www.arrs.run/MaraList/ML_Fin2016.htm this page, in 2016, the belfast city marathon was the largest marathon in northern ireland, and was tied for 177th-largest marathon that the Association of Road Racing Statisticians|association of road racing statisticians (arrs) kept track of that year, comparable to Rock 'n' Roll Washington DC Marathon|washington, d.c. (171st), Kyoto Marathon|kyoto (185th), and Dubai Marathon|dubai (191st).  this statistic was based on the number of marathon finishers (2,155) that year, which has increased to 3,756 in 2019, according to http://www.marathonguide.com/results/browse.cfm?MIDD=1047190505 marathon guide.{{pb}}in addition, regarding sources, the bbc and cnn links now in the article should be sufficient, but if not, some running-specific sources include https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/g20848842/running-the-world-belfast/ ''runner's world'' and https://aims-worldrunning.org/articles/113-a-marathon-of-two-ages.html ''distance running'', and some outside the anglophone world include https://fitz.hk/sports/running/%E8%B5%B0%E4%BD%AC%E5%8E%BB%E8%8B%B1%E5%80%AB-%E6%8B%8E%E4%BD%8Fbno-%E8%B7%91%E5%8B%BB%E5%85%A8%E8%8B%B1%E5%9C%8B/ fitz (hong kong) and https://newrunners.ru/mag/marafony-maya-2014/ newrunners (russia).{{pb}}also, although the article states that the marathon was established in 1982, arrs https://arrs.run/HP_BlfMa.htm reports that a marathon has been run in belfast pretty much every year since 1946, with each running of the marathon treated as the northern ireland championships
— User:Dying, 23:55, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROMO (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)