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The result was merge‎ to Party or an appropriate section thereof Star Mississippi 03:07, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Quiet party[edit]

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Unsourced and apparent orphan page. Seems non-notable and perhaps obscure commerical events without any wider social impact. Seaweed (talk) 20:01, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment the best source I can find is [1], but I'm not entirely convinced this source is entirely unprompted by the company that is the main subject of the article. Every other relevant Google hit seemed non-independent, web-pages of companies who host quiet discos. If we can't find genuine unconnected secondary sources, perhaps it's WP:TOOSOON? Elemimele (talk) 20:50, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. It looks like this article had this other article merged into it. On that revision there are several links to reliable sources covering quiet parties, including non-trivial coverage in The New York Times and SFGATE. Those references should be edited into this article. I do agree that the concept seems not to have caught on, so a merge into a new "variants" section on Silent disco could work too. Barnards.tar.gz (talk) 21:13, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Party. The concept doesn't have the traction in sources or popular media for a standalone article. There are plenty of niche parties discussed at the parent article. Desertarun (talk) 14:54, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 23:43, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets GNG per above sources from old redirect. Including additionally from that same redirect a USA TODAY article—siro χ o 00:50, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Party#Types as a new L3 section, I guess. I don't think silent disco works as a target; the parties discussed there all involve some form of performance entertainment experienced through headphones, which seems like a pretty distinct concept. On review of the sources mentioned above, while I can't deny that this formally satisfies the GNG, from a practical standpoint I just don't see much in them to build an article out of. They are mostly about first- and second-hand experiences of attending a Quiet Party. (And what citable facts these articles contain relate mostly to what seems to have been a business/hustle run by Rebhan and Noe -- note mention of "franchising" in one article -- which raises a different set of issues.) We are, I think, missing several levels of coverage around both silence and parties that would have provided better merge targets -- wouldn't it be lovely if we had Partying in the 2000s? -- but Party is already eclectic enough that this is probably fine there. -- Visviva (talk) 23:21, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to party per Visviva as a more appropriate location for this content. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:20, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Party#types per above. - Indefensible (talk) 01:51, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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