Talk:Mr Gay UK

Speedy deletion contested

The rationale for speedy deletion seems to be Blatant advertising. Pages which exclusively promote some entity and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten to become encyclopedic. Note that simply having a company or product as its subject does not qualify an article for this criterion. However the page is more than just a commercial page for Mr. Gay UK and the annual event has become a key gay cultural icon that has also raised gay awareness in the general media (see the footnotes relating to national newspaper coverage). As such the page is quite appropriately an encyclopedic topic and cannot be mistaken for blatant advertising (though you could argue the case for POV of the text). I have removed the template for these reasons.

I have also removed the "15 years of Mr. Gay UK" section to become a little more NPOV, this was probably the objectionable text.

—Ashleyvh (talk) 10:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I have removed the "15 years of Mr. Gay UK" section for the second time under the same reasons, see WP:ADS before adding any such similar non-encyclopaedic section back in. —Ashleyvh (talk) 15:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Missing information and inconsistencies in the text

Winners are only recorded since 1993, when the infamous Anthony Morely won. He is described as 'the first ever winner' both on this page and on his own page, however the contest (as stated both on this page and in the referenced Guardian article) has run since 1984 (when Morely was 12) under it's current name. There appears to be a mistake therefore in describing him thus and there appears to be an omission in the lack of a record of winners from 1984-1992 Adagio67 (talk) 19:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The company 'Mr Gay UK Limited' was registered in 1992 http://companycheck.co.uk/company/02760299

Gay footballer Justin Fashanu is recorded as a judge in the competition in 1992 http://inbedwithmaradona.com/journal/2010/11/28/extraordinary-justin-fashanu-at-torquay-united.html though I have no idea how reliable this is,

Some explanation of this inconsistency needs to be added to the text Adagio67 (talk) 19:10, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Update required

Further to the inconsistencies mention above, the 'notable non winning contestants' section is now very out of date, making mention of a 2011 competition in the future tenseAdagio67 (talk) 09:57, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Is this competition still held?

Their website lists no winners since 2013.[1] The website of Mr Gay Europe indicates that their UK confirms that their British 'producers' are now Mr Gay England, Mr Gay Scotland, Mr Gay Wales and possibly Mr Gay Ireland.

It is possible that the competition was discontinued following controversy over its treatment of Stavros Louca in 2014.[2][3][4] We should mention this issue in the article. Verbcatcher (talk) 13:22, 5 September 2022 (UTC)