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Google Code Jam

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Subject of numerous minor mentions, but fails to gain any significant coverage in reliable sources, thus failing WP:NEVENT. A very few sources like [1] are semi-reliable, slightly promotional or don't give any general view on the Google Code Jam, instead barely focusing on a single edition of the competition or conducting an interview with one or more participants. WP:NORG can apply here with regards to the content of the sources that are promotional. There is no valid merge target, since it's organized by Google, and the Code Jam probably deserves no more than a sentence on the Google article. wumbolo ^^^ 12:39, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep: sufficient Google Books results to justify having a stand-alone article, for example: The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, Clayton M. and Google by Virginia A. Scott. A major international competition; meets WP:NEVENT. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:25, 14 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep The claim of notability is backed by the required reliable sources. Alansohn (talk) 14:38, 15 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Alansohn: can you please elaborate which sources back the notability claim? wumbolo ^^^ 13:03, 16 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - This is a very difficult one to decide on.
Clearly, this is not something which gets mentioned in common reliable mainstream media.
The sources writing about this, i.e. online technical magazines etc., may fail being classified as reliable & independent.
Websites, which does have articles about this, make a living of their traffic, and the brand Google is great for attracting visitors (generating revenue). This in turn means that sources may have written about Google Code Jam, solely because it carries the Google brand.
For something to be of encyclopedic value, then it must have an audience, aka. readers. It's not enough that someone what to write about something, in a (more or less) vain hope of attracting readers.
A further complication is cyclic referencing. Example: A writer working at magazine X, reads a press release from Google about Google Code Jam, and notice that WP got an article about it. The writer then decide to write an independent article about it, because the existence of a WP article is evidence (though not proof) of notability. Since WP editors can't generally tell why articles about a topic was created, it's easy to see how a cyclic state of notability gets to be.
Finally, as far as what Google Code Jam is, it's actually as much of a Google promotion as it is a real competition.
-- DexterPointy (talk) 13:55, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]