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Nice essay you linked to there. Unfortunately, from my experience the admin who will close out this discussion won't care about essays or other arguments you link to; they simply count up the keeps vs deletes and go from there. However, I have added some actual text to the article now (it's no
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Normally I'd say it's a no-brainer to delete the page of an organization that's only had 2 shows, but both of it's events got plenty of coverage. Most of the coverage was for the wrong reasons, but I can't separate the coverage of the events from the organization.
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It's a little harsh to call it a joke (sparse is more like it) but I agree it could do with some additional sources to improve the quality. Otherwise a promising up and coming organization which has already had a number of notable fighters on its two shows.
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The article in it's current form is a joke and should be deleted. However, a Google search suggests, to me, there are sources available to beef up the article. With those improvements I could fully support keeping the article.
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