Talk:Miss and Mister Supranational

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Subject, title, and formatting of the page?[edit]

These are three somewhat related questions. First, subject: how do we handle Mister Supranational? This is a separate contest, but clearly related - run by the same organization, winners appear together all the time, judge each others contests, crown each others winners, etc. However it gets an order of magnitude less WP:RS press than Miss Supranational, and since a few experienced editors just might be skeptical of the Wikipedia:Notability of Miss Supranational, I don't want Mister Supranational to stand alone, since it's much more vulnerable to a well placed WP:AFD. So I think it should just be a section of this page. But this should be discussed. Among other things, do we want one infobox for Miss Supranational and another for Mister Supranational? There isn't a lot of info in either, though there'll probably be a logo when this goes to main space (can't use fair use images outside main space). Just one for World Beauty Associates?

Second, title: if we do keep Mister Suprananational here, should we title this page Miss and Mister Supranational? (Miss first because it precedes in three ways: alphabetically, chronologically, and in order of notability as above.) Or should we keep it Miss Supranational since that is the main subject, and to parallel the other beauty pageant articles, Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth?

Finally, formatting: those four international beauty pageant articles are full of tables - they've got more tables than a woodworking shop. So did the two previous versions of this page, actually. Most of the content of the current "pageants" sections will fit in tables, but not all, there is noticeable information that doesn't fit and that I don't want to leave out, such as that Monika Lewczuk won the prize in the city of her birth, or that Jenny Kim got congratulated for bringing South Korea its first major international beauty pageant victory, or, relatedly, that Valeria Vázquez Latorre got feted by the Puerto Rican government for completing the set of 5 major international beauty pageant victories. I guess there could be a "Notes" column in the table for that, though.

What do people think? --GRuban (talk) 16:29, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

User:Berchanhimez at Template:Did you know nominations/Miss and Mister Supranational prefers the table. So be it! --GRuban (talk) 17:07, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I do - I think that the current two tables are probably all that's needed. Keep in mind that there's no harm in separating "notes" and "references" if it gets too unwieldy - have the notes such as "this year, the winner was born in the city the contest was held in" or something, then have the references in a separate column if you so desire. The current notes is fine though if you want to leave it that way. I also don't know that the mens' competition has enough for an article on its own, so I think the title is fine as is. If it were a "sister competition" or like "additional feature" to the womens', I could see naming it Miss Supranational, but it appears at least to me that it's a completely separate competition that just so happens to be ran by the same people, same dates, etc. One question you could ask (or look for in reliable sources) - does each competition have separate press credentialing, separate ticketing, etc, or is one ticket/credential (or similar) sufficient to get into both. If one ticket gets both, then it suggests they may be part of the same event, but that doesn't guarantee that they should be named under "Miss Supranational" only with a subsection. Hopefully this helps. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 18:45, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ready for review[edit]

@RoySmith, WilliamJE, and I Nyoman Gede Anila: Hi folks.

  • User:RoySmith is an experienced administrator who deleted Miss Supranational some years ago, and was kind enough to restore it to my user space when I said I would be interested in fixing it. User talk:RoySmith#Could you please userfy the deleted Miss Supranational article for me? I'm afraid I haven't taken much advantage of the restoration, since, well, it was pretty horrible, both previous versions, only one or two references each, and not very good ones. So I've been working in this space instead, with (I hope!) better results. Certainly more refs! Anyway, Roy said he would be willing to take a look if pinged. This is that.
  • User:WilliamJE is also an experienced user, though not an administrator, who warned me against recreating the article in that discussion on Roy's page. I offered him a friendly wager on whether it would survive AfD after I recreated it with some work, which ... I'm afraid he ducked. OK, no wager. I'd still be interested to hear William's opinions, though.
  • User:I Nyoman Gede Anila is an inexperienced user, but one with a great deal of interest in our articles about beauty pageants. Pretty much all I know about beauty pageants I learned from working on this article just now. (I think I've written one much shorter article about a beauty pageant winner - that one also a rescue from deletion, oddly enough!) So maybe he'll be able to give me some useful advice.

Comments from any of you on any part of this draft article, but especially on the three questions I ask in the section immediately above, are very welcome. Thank you! --GRuban (talk) 18:54, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GRuban, I don't know much about beauty pageants, so I'll just make some general comments. The first thing that caught my eye was the large number of redlinks. Please see WP:RED, where it says, In general, a red link should be allowed to remain in an article if it links to a title that could plausibly sustain an article. My other comment is that much of this seems like trivia, but that may just be that this isn't a topic I'm interested in. It certainly has plenty of references. I spot-checked a couple and didn't see any that raised any obvious red flags about not being WP:RS. I hope this was of some value. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:37, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@RoySmith: Yes, it was, thank you! Honestly, I could probably have squeezed out a Notability-meeting article on maybe half of the red links, but I don't know which ones until I start. But following your comments I decided to reduce them a lot, leaving in the ones for the winners and the contests, which seem most likely to qualify for articles, removing the ones for the runners-up. It's a very rough cull, of course, since most of the potential notability will come from what they do after the contest, and maybe half of them will have become notable television reporters, actresses, or models, but that doesn't correlate very closely with winning or not. I haven't written any other pageant articles either, so I'm looking at this as an article about a sport, maybe something like U.S. Figure Skating Championships, where 90% of the content is going to be pretty formulaic, and who won, when, and from where is usually the only important thing. It's pretty rare that someone gets kneecapped. Sources: well there are a few from the organization itself, but I was surprised how many completely unconnected newspapers there are that will regularly write not very long, but non trivial articles, several paragraphs, and of course lots and lots of pictures, about their national pageant contestants. Between the mass of them, I hope they will be enough to have the subject pass WP:N. You agree? I'm waiting to read what William writes, of course. --GRuban (talk) 20:32, 12 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
After more searching, removed more red links unlikely to become articles. Diego Garcy and Nate Crnkovich are possibilities that just might make WP:N, so leaving them red. Stephi Stegman definitely can (leaving it a cross-wiki redirect until ready). Valeria Vázquez and Anntonia Porsild are more debatable, so might stay cross-wiki articles for a while. --GRuban (talk) 13:50, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jumark27, Noahknows78, IZ041, and Gene93k:: Hi, folks. After deciding that I wasn't going to get any more comments on this article as a draft in my user space, and moving this article to main space, I only now notice that you have all been working on Draft:Miss Supranational, so might have useful comments here! Please do give any comments, or feel free to improve the article in main space, it's a wiki. Gene93k rejected the draft as so ... I hope you like this one better? If not, I guess you might join WilliamJE in mounting an AfD. My defense will be as below. --GRuban (talk) 14:19, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notability argument[edit]

User:WilliamJE hasn't responded yet, but back in User talk:RoySmith#Could you please userfy the deleted Miss Supranational article for me?, he wrote "This topic and all its progeny have been deemed not notable on more than one occasion at AFD. The SALT should stand and if it is ever removed and the article re-created, I will send it back to AFD again if not nominate it for speedy deletion." So until he says he's changed his mind, it's probably safest to assume he's going to do that. I'm going to marshal my arguments for the Wikipedia:Notability of this topic here.

  • Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miss Supranational (2nd nomination) was back in August 2014. At that time, the contest had only been run 4 times. It has gone on for 6 more contests, more than double that, and has since grown to include Mister Supranational.
  • At the time of that AfD, the article looked like this: 3 references (two forums and one primary source), and 5 external links from 3 sources, 4 about the 2011 contest, all pretty short, from Europe and Asia. And all the last were mostly about 3 individual contestants rather than about the pageant as a whole. The current version has 78 references, evenly distributed among the contests, from ... probably 50 different sources ... no forums, minimal primary sources, easily 20 countries and six continents, and most are substantial, multi-paragraph articles, from independent mainstream newspapers, about different contestants, and contests and franchises. That easily meets WP:GNG: "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".

--GRuban (talk) 19:51, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I remain unconvinced. I note that neither the French nor German nor Spanish WPs have an article, now the Dutch or any the scandiavians. I'd be concerned if our standards for promotional articles on popular culture articles like these have become lower than our peers. DGG ( talk ) 10:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
We are the largest Wikipedia, so by definition we are going to have articles that our peers do not. And it does exist in 8 of them. The most important part is that this topic clearly meets WP:GNG. I know you don't believe in the GNG, so that's not going to convince you. I guess I'll have to convince your audience. --GRuban (talk) 22:42, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I see a parallel to NFILM and NCORP here. We don't always judge films with notable actors or filmmakers to be notable. We don't always judge business ventures by notable businesspeople to be notable. Pageants should be held to the same standard. So the problem I see with these sources is that they are a smorgasbord of short items about individual contestants, not a bunch of in-depth coverage about the purported subject that we'd apply to the other entities I mentioned. GRuban in your opinion, what are the best three sources about Supranational here? I'm struggling to identify even one good one. ☆ Bri (talk) 02:41, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes and no. If these winners were already notable for reasons unconnected with this contest, I could agree with that - if all the articles were about "Jane Jones, the great beauty, also adds Miss Supranational to her long list of prizes", then I could see the argument that the sources were about Jane Jones, not about Miss Supranational; the source would not have been written if it weren't about Jane Jones. But they're actually all about the title, Miss Supranational, and Jane Jones is just this year's winner. If Sally Smith had won it, the source would still have been written, just with her details. And if Jane Jones didn't win it, then the sources would not have been written about her, and we wouldn't have an article about her. It's more like an elected office, where the articles are written about the person in the office, but the reason for that is that they're the person in the office. Compare it to List of United States senators from New Hampshire for example - all the sources are about the individual senators, not about Senator from New Hampshire, but most of those people are mainly notable for being the Senator from New Hampshire; if a different person had been the senator in their place, the notability would have gone to that person. Here are some of the sources that make that quite clear that they're about the contest, not about the person:
  • "Crowned in time of 'corona': Miss Supranational Ecuador picked via online pageant" Yes, in theory it's about one specific contestant, but in practice it's about how the contest picked that contestant, the name of the winner is not in the title, and if it had been a different name, the article would have been much the same. Also note that this is an article from the Philippines, about the contestant from Ecuador. They're rather far apart. This is not a "local boy (er, girl) makes good" story.
  • "Nowa Miss Supranational 2009" - the winner is mentioned once. The article is about the contest. This is from Poland.
  • "Venezuela ganó el Miss Supranational 2014" - likewise, winner mentioned once, article about contest. This is from Venezuela.
  • "Miss Supranational had feeling she’d go home with the crown" - From the Philippines; this one does have a fair bit about the person, not just the contest, but emphasizes the contest, in my opinion - you'll see the contest is in the title, she isn't, it writes about how she's the first Asian to win the contest, presumably it would similarly write about another person who would have been that.
That said, here are sources that are coverage of the contest without being at all about individual contestants in it.
Again, note how far apart these sources are: South Africa, India, and the Philippines, and Venezuela in the section above that. This is while the contest itself is in Poland. This isn't just notability, but world wide notability. It's going to be hard to find articles from South Africa and India and the Philippines and Venezuela about the senatorial election in New Hampshire, and yet we have 17 real articles in Category:United States Senate elections in New Hampshire and a whole bunch of section links. --GRuban (talk) 14:35, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 12:43, 6 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Finals of Miss Supranational 2017
Finals of Miss Supranational 2017
  • ... that the 2017 Miss Supranational victory (pictured) by Jenny Kim of South Korea was the first time that country had won a major international beauty pageant? Source: "Jenny Kim of South Korea became the first Korean winner of a major international pageant" The Philippine Star; Jenny menjadi perempuan Korea pertama yang meraih mahkota dalam kontes kecantikan tingkat dunia. ("Jenny became the first Korean woman to win a crown in a world-class beauty pageant.") CNN Indonesia
    • ALT0a:... that Jenny Kim's victory in the 2017 Miss Supranational beauty pageant (finalists pictured) was the first major international pageant win by a contestant representing South Korea?
    • ALT1:... that the 2018 Miss Supranational victory by Valeria Vázquez Latorre made Puerto Rico the first winner of the five most important international beauty pageants? Source: "Hace algunas semanas que la puertorriqueña Valeria Vázquez Latorre hizo historia en los certámenes de belleza luego de ganar Miss Supranacional 2018 en Polonia. Esto convirtió a la isla en el primer país que alcanza las coronas de los cinco concursos más importantes." ("It is a few weeks since Puerto Rican Valeria Vázquez Latorre made history in the beauty pageants after winning Miss Supranacional 2018 in Poland. This made the island the first country to reach the crowns of the five most important contests.") Metro Puerto Rico "La carismática joven logró regalarle a la isla, una victoria en los tres certámenes más importantes del mundo, la quinta corona internacional." ("The charismatic young woman managed to give the island a victory in the three most important competitions in the world, the fifth international crown.") Nueva Mujer
    • ALT2:(Or, combine the two!) ... that in 2017, the Miss Supranational win (pictured) was the first time South Korea won any major international beauty pageant, while the 2018 win made Puerto Rico the only winner of the five most important ones? (Sources as above.)

Moved to mainspace by GRuban (talk). Self-nominated at 11:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Personally, I think the organization of the "Miss Supranational pageants" section could use some work. It seems odd to barely have two lines (at least on my desktop) per paragraph, and each paragraph starting with a person's name. Furthermore, the monetary prize is mentioned quite frequently - I don't think it needs mentioned every year. May I suggest stating the first year's monetary prize, and then only stating the prize when it changed (ex: the first year it increased to 30k, state "This year, the prize was increased to 30k" or similar). Furthermore, I'm almost certain that the article will still be at DYK prose size if that section is turned into tabular format - would this be something you may consider to help the readability of the article?
Overall, I prefer alt0, or alt0a which I've added a slight wording variation to. Alt1/2 seem to me to rely on one source's reading of "most important", and it doesn't appear to me that the "pentuple crown" (so to speak) is very well defined or even notable in its own right - but the first hook is certainly good to go in my opinion. I'll wait for your replies to the points I raise before I approve hook 0. Please ping me when you reply if you would :) -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 01:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC) -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 01:49, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Berchanhimez: All done, I think. Please take a look. I'm also fine with hook ALT0a. --GRuban (talk) 17:06, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@GRuban: Good to go now for ALT0/ALT0a - and the article is much easier on the eyes and easier to pick information out from table format for those competitions. Also still more than meets the prose requirement even after table conversion. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 18:36, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And if there's anything we should expect, nay demand, of an article about two beauty pageants, it's being easy on the eyes. --GRuban (talk) 18:42, 21 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The hooks are not grammatically correct. ALT0 leads with Jenny Kim in the first clause and the country in the second. I prefer ALT0a, but it should say:
  • ALT0a-1: ... that Jenny Kim's victory in the 2017 Miss Supranational beauty pageant (finalists pictured) marked the first time a contestant representing South Korea won a major international pageant? Yoninah (talk) 21:53, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Fine with that as well, thank you! --GRuban (talk) 12:32, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • @GRuban: the first paragraph under "Puteri Indonesia Pariwisata" needs a cite per Rule D2. BTW the image looks good at thumbnail size but when I click on it, it's incredibly blurry. I would like to use the image, but I wonder if others will be disappointed when they click on it. Yoninah (talk) 19:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, it's not a great image at full size. The pageant is televised, of course, but it seems by a commercial company who sells the rights to a TV network for a non-negligible amount of money. So while there are plenty of images on the Internet, they're "fair use", we can't use them. We have images of most of the winners in their articles, but not of Jenny Kim, strangely enough. I looked. I thought I was lucky to find this frame in an amateur video of the taken by a friend of a competitor, since it's not just of Jenny Kim but of the actual ceremony stage seconds before the triumphal award. I can even grab one of a few seconds later, but when she heard the announcement that she won, she did the classic beauty pageant winner thing of bowing her head into her hands and crying, so she would be even less visible then I'm afraid. I understand the DYK image requirement is that it look good at 100px, which, I think this does? But you're the expert - if you want to run it without an image, that will work too. I will ping you when I've cited that paragraph, probably tomorrow. --GRuban (talk) 23:18, 31 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Yoninah: Cited where requested. --GRuban (talk) 14:46, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Restoring tick for ALT0a-1 per Berchanhimez's review. And yes, I agree the image looks fine at thumbnail size. :) Yoninah (talk) 17:24, 1 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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