Fandom: Just A Bunch Of Non-Notable People Getting Together And Doing Nothing Notable. Not!

On occasion, the main Wikipedia takes the position that fandom activities are not “notable”. Case in point:

Sectus = 450 fans attend a Harry Potter convention, a 4 day series of fannish and scholarly events.  Wikipedia deletes the convention page: The convention is not notable and not worth documenting because it  “…is just a school get together with Harry Potter fans.”

In contrast, see Fanlore’s Sectus convention page. Fanlore is a fan run, non-profit wiki that focuses on media fandom history. You do not have to be a BNF or “notable” to be included. And anyone can participate in editing.

But it is not just media fandom that gets the side eye. The Bay Area Science Fiction Association (a fan club for sci-fi fans) was almost deleted because the fan club had not been mentioned by any “third party sources.” (“Articles by notable people that cover BASFA in some detail, a solid history in a notable fanzine, notable events that BASFA has had a recognised role in or organised”). 

The page was finally allowed to remain, but it was touch and go for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bay_Area_Science_Fiction_Association