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The result was delete. Sandstein 16:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of TEDx conferences[edit]

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A directory of non-notable conferences that anyone can organize if they feel like it, sourced almost entirely to primary sources like TED.com, Facebook, and YouTube. As TED (conference) puts it, TEDx conferences can be organized by anyone who obtains a free license from TED, and agrees to follow certain principles. TED itself claims that there are over 3000 a year ([1]). I briefly considered paring it down to just the conferences with links, but of those only TEDxAuckland, TEDxLagos, TEDxSanta Cruz, and TEDxWellington have even a hint of independent coverage, and they can be handled with a category or just linked to on a see-also at TED (conference). AleatoryPonderings (talk) 18:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 18:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 18:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 16:02, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Concur with nom; anyone anywhere can put together a local TEDx event. List attempts to catalogue the annual events of 40 locations but there is well over an order of magnitude more of them, which are not widely covered to be listed as such. Not sure the four listed should even have their own articles. Reywas92^Talk 01:20, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Non-notable topic that fails WP:GNG for the list itself. An example of WP:LISTCRUFT/WP:FANCRUFT. Also violates MOS:EXTERNALLINKS with dozens of inappropriate external links including ext lnks camouflaged as pseudo-citations. Violates WP:Reliable sources by using its own website for citations. In total, violates WP:What Wikipedia is not. Normal Op (talk) 18:19, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Concur with nom and above comments. The list is pretty arbitrary in nature covering only a tiny fraction of events based on no observable criteria. Also it has lot of WP:PROMO intent by the use of good number of external links within the main space. The official TED website is far better for this purpose covering not only all the future events but also all the past events as well. - Roller26 (talk) 20:50, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
This was created after Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TEDxSanta Cruz. It's become a dumping ground rather than a curated list. The more notable TEDx conferences, as well as the TEDx concept, do get coverage in reliable sources and can individually meet WP:GNG and collectively meet WP:LISTN. I would recommend keeping, but establishing a strict set of criteria, and trimming the article. For example, each list entry would either use ((main)) to link to a standalone page that meets WP:GNG, or would need to have X reliable sources to have an entry on the list.This would get rid of almost all of the objectionable/promotional material in the article as well as a fair, objective, and non-arbitrary standard for inclusion other than which TEDx conference is savvy enough to edit Wikipedia. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 03:54, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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