Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blackball Museum of Working Class History


 * 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. Consensus is clear, potential canvassing aside (given that canvassing can end up bringing delete voters to a discussion as readily as anyone else, and that no regular AfD participants saw fit to comment in favor of deletion). BD2412 T 00:37, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Blackball Museum of Working Class History

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The references consist only of two travel guides and two press releases. The coverage in each of the guides is only a single paragraph. It's already included in the article on the town.  DGG ( talk ) 05:46, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:36, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Zealand-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 07:36, 12 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep. The exhibition is pretty clearly notable and has had extensive coverage in reliable sources in the ten years it's been up. None of the four West Coast newspapers are online, though, which makes it harder to immediately post references. I've been encouraging people to create stubs for West Coast institutions as part of the West Coast Wikipedian at Large project, and will be spending three days in Blackball in early October working with the creators of the museum and going through their file of media coverage. So if we can perhaps hold off until then it will save me having to create the article over again. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 08:58, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment - We do not have a WP:CRYSTALBALL that will tell us that we will find sufficient media coverage of this museum in a file of print media. That said, the article, if found not to be notable here, it could be moved to draft space so that you could work on it and if its not notable then its much easier to delete from there. -Indy beetle (talk) 19:12, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:ITSAMUSEUM. In addition to the travel guides, I added two references from the Christchurch Press about the funding and the museum's sponsorship of a memorial. ITSAMUSEUM says that in general, we keep articles on museums, because it's a public attraction and they tend to get coverage in travel books and newspapers. — Toughpigs (talk) 16:56, 12 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Besides WP:ITSAMUSEUM, this is a locally significant place, as the place where a memorial to the miners lost in the Pike River Mine Disaster is sited. DrThneed (talk) 03:05, 13 September 2020 (UTC) — Note: An editor has expressed a concern that DrThneed (talk • contribs) has been canvassed to this discussion. (diff)
 * Comment If you look at the histories of the subject of this AfD, this page and DrThneed's talk page, you will find that DrThneed's edits took place on 13 Sep, while the alleged canvassing, actually a project update, was posted on 14 Sep. Oronsay (talk) 22:14, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. I didn't have a strong opinion about this but now that the AfD for History House Museum has been closed as 'Keep', this article should be kept, as it is just as notable, if not more so, than History House Museum. That said, it's the content that is most important, whether it is in its own article or part of another. Nurg (talk) 22:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.