Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beggars Fair
Many towns do have festivals, but this is a prominent one that attracts people from all over the area such as Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Bournemouth and Salisbury - and beyond. (COI warning - I played at the fair regularly between 1999 and 2005). All those proposing deletion probably googled for "Beggar's Fair" instead of "Romsey Beggar's Fair", which is what I've found people actually tend to call it. Expand to include the evidence of violence in 2011 as documented in reliable sources such as http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9134484.Drunken_thugs_go_on_rampage_at_festival/ this or http://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/news/9132824.Street_fights_at_Romsey_Beggars_Fair/ this or http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/regional/romsey/9132824.Street_fights_at_Romsey_Beggars_Fair/ this, and include basic festival information from http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/others2010/romseybeggars/ this (is this a |RS - can't work out if it's free for all or editorially controlled?) or http://www.co-operative.coop/join-the-revolution-old/romsey-beggars-fair this (likewise) or http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8262791.Romsey_s_Beggars_Fair_gets_under_way/ this (Southampton Daily Echo is a prominent local newspaper with full editorial control so a reliable source). Anyway, plenty of stuff there for the deletionists to get their teeth stuck into
— User:Ritchie333, 09:35, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)