Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hoover Dam in popular culture


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 02:00, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

Hoover Dam in popular culture

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Like the recently deleted Maine in popular culture and the currently AfD'd Rhode Island in popular culture, this is an indiscriminate list with no credible claim of significance as a general topic. Fails WP:INPOPULARCULTURE. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 17:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
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 * Keep - the article is currently a list of tangential mentions of the dam in pop culture, but WP:AFD is ultimately not WP:NOTCLEANUP and is instead concerned with determining notability. While the article is under-sourced, potential sources like Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon (a print source published by the University of Nevada Press) indicate the topic has be specifically covered enough to meet WP:GNG. Other, less stellar but still adequate sources like Pop Culture Places: An Encyclopedia of Places in American Popular Culture or, , could also be cited. If the more quality sources are seen in sum with the more tangential mentions of the dam in popular culture, notability is likely established. A re-write with the sourcing that exists is preferable to deletion. SamHolt6 (talk) 17:40, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean-up article per sources provided above by SamHolt6. It has lots of unsourced statements, or statements cited with unreliable sources (we're still using IDMb in [insert current year here]?), so re-writing this article with the books and academic literature provided above would be great! 👨x🐱 (talk) 18:10, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep and clean-up article - I agree with HumanxAnthro on this one. I think we should keep the article. However, it needs to be cleaned up and should probably have a few more sources added if any can be found. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 21:55, 20 April 2021 (UTC)


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