Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apollo Theatre (Belvidere, Illinois)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. I know I voted in this, but WP:SNOW makes me think that this can probably be speedy closed, and so I will. -- Rockstone  Send me a message!  05:57, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Apollo Theatre (Belvidere, Illinois)

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Merged and redirected as failing N and unneeded CFORK, but rv. Fails GNG and NGEO as well as EVENT and LASTING. There is also the article 2023 Apollo Theater Roof Collapse, which again fails GNG, NOTNEWS, EVENT and LASTING. Finally there is Belvidere North State Street Historic District which has a spot for it Belvidere North State Street Historic District. This is a classic unnecessary CFORK, which serves to fragment the content into stubs and make readers chase links.  // Timothy :: talk  08:43, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Theatre and Illinois.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 08:51, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Update: The article 2023 Apollo Theater Roof Collapse was very temporary, as it consisted of just one sentence ("On March 31, 2023, the roof of Apollo Theater in Belvidere, Illinois collapsed, causing the death of 1 person and the hospitalization of 28 people.") and it was redirected to the historic district. I re-redirected it to this Apollo Theatre article, where there's expanded info about the collapse.  This AFD is not about that redirect; redirects are cheap and harmless. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 11:19, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep -- this building is independently notable. That it didn't have an article until this tragic event doesn't make that any less so. -- Rockstone Send me a message!  08:54, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Sources?  // Timothy :: talk  08:58, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * / /  /  /  / . I would have thought a 100-year old theater would give enough for a Start. KJP1 (talk) 09:47, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 09:29, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per User:Rockstone35. Indeed among contributing buildings in NRHP historic districts, usually a theatre is going to be individually notable; because of their nature there is much written about them.  wp:ITSAPUBLICATTRACTION, an excellent essay, applies.  Also I am adding to the article. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 10:16, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I did add to this article, and I revised the historic district article to start to list out its major contributing buildings, including this one. With brief mention, currently, to the roof collapse... the details are now provided in the Apollo Theatre article. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 11:21, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep. I started this whole thing, so I'm a bit biased, but I think it's gotten to be quite a useful little article within the span of about ten hours. DontCallMeLateForDinner (talk) 11:42, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
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 * Speedy Keep - per User:Rockstone35 and User: Doncram. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 14:31, 1 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep ...not going to lie; the explanation for the deletion request looked like a bunch of gibberish to me. Chess  Eric  16:00, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm glad someone said it. It looked like someone wikilawyering. -- Rockstone Send me a message!  00:15, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep Perhaps the article about the roof collapse could be merged with it, but the page about the Apollo itself is sound due to the theater's notability. TH1980 (talk) 00:08, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - looks good and perfectly viable now. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 02:40, 2 April 2023 (UTC)