Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MystiCon
I'm not going to take the time to create an account, but I want to add something to the discussion.  I, too, stumbled upon this by the Erfworld thing and have personally experienced an editor who goes out of his way to delete an article on Wikipedia instead of providing help as to what was wrong with the article only to insist in every comment that the article MUST be deleted (which is why I read this in the first place).  Going through List_of_science_fiction_conventions, there are some articles linked off of there that are clearly in worse shape than this current article.  Furthermore, List_of_science_fiction_conventions can be considered direct violation of , therefore, should be removed because it, too, can be considered a promotional type of page, based on locations given and dates of the next occurrence.  However, that being said, this article has its own merit, but needs to be cleaned up, significantly, before it should be considered WP viable.  I believe future events should not be addressed past when the next convention will occur and where, as any key note speakers, groups, etc could be considered "promotional material".  The external link should be enough to provide information to those who are interested.  Past events are ok, and should deal with key points, speakers, notable events, etc that occurred during the convention.  More history in the convention, even the scandalous circumstances in its founding, should be noted as well (which would provide it more referenceable information).  See Ad_Astra_(convention), Finncon, and MarsCon_(Bloomington,_Minnesota) for more of what this article should be.Also, if references are such a problem, then MarsCon_(Bloomington,_Minnesota) needs to be deleted.  There are no references of any kind on the page to speak, nor are there any on MarsCon_(Williamsburg,_Virginia), nor on several more of the conventions linked from the list.  The argument for deletion here seems to be less about the fact that this event isn't referenceable, but more about the continuity of the event, as it has only seen one gathering to date.  It is not a "significant" event, therefore, loses its ability to be referenced on Wikipedia.  I don't agree with that at all.Therefore, just clean up the page with the sandbox and previews, add a little more information.  Fight for this to be kept if you so desire, but if it is deleted, present a much more detailed article in the future, perhaps after the second successful convention. -Special:Contributions/66.209.247.246|66.209.247.246
— [[User talk:66.209.247.246|talk]]), 08:29, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTDIR (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)