Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zombie Awareness Month

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The result was keep. Keep voters have offered sources that were not addressed by the nominator or rebutted by anyone else. (non-admin closure) Jovanmilic97 (talk) 08:48, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Zombie Awareness Month

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A poorly sourced article. The only sources that are not by the so-called Zombie Research Society consist of a joke article(1), an interview with the creator(7), an article which appearantly contains factual errors(5) and a blog(4). The only thing that could possible make it notable is source 8, but it's a part-interview article and not about the topic, but instead it is about a zombie apocalypse course and it does not mention Zombie Awareness Month at all. It fails WP:NEVENT, especially WP:INDEPTH. » Shadowowl | talk 11:36, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete A badly source joke of an article about someone'S joke movement. --Calton | Talk 04:17, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Events-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:11, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Joke or not it's gotten coverage it seems.★Trekker (talk) 09:43, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 07:38, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Keep - I was all ready to vote delete on this but, yeah, it seems this joke did actually (just) get significant coverage 1 2 3. I think the CDC part in particular should be added to the article, as this shows the idea going beyond a joke into soemthing for promoting disaster preparedness. FOARP (talk) 08:10, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It certainly seems that there is sustained, significant coverage - from at last 2011 that I can easily see online, and in the US and UK (there's even an "An Oxford Companion to surviving a zombie apocalypse" [1] - yes, it's on OUP's blog, but does give an idea of the spread of awareness about the Zombie Awareness Month!) RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:14, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above and sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Perf115 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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