Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House


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The result was no consensus.  Sandstein  09:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Lee Harvey Oswald Rooming House

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Any notability is inherited TheLongTone (talk) 15:19, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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 * Comment The owner has opened it to the public as a private museum, but there doesn't seem to be any historic designation. There also has been enough media coverage of the house's reopening to the public in 2013, including overseas, that it could be argued to meet GNG, though I agree with the nominator that its brief association with JFK's assassin and its current role as a for-profit tourist attraction in Dallas don't add up to lasting notability for our purposes. However, if others do, then the article would need to be rewritten as more about the house museum, which is what garnered the press. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:54, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Anything to do with JFK's assassination will attract some publicity. I'd argue that coverage resulting from this surely duller than dull "visitor attraction" is WP:NOTNEWS, basically generated by a PR push when it opened. Can there be anything of interest to say about the place?TheLongTone (talk) 15:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete -- Notability is not inherited. The museum is no doubt a speculative venture.  I wonder how long it will pay its way.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:07, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

*Comment The intent of this page was not to promote the home. I have no connection to the home or it's tours. If it helps, I deleted the tour related links. Although this structure is not on the Nat. List of Historical Places, it does have historical significance. As a side note, it is interesting to note that the home where his wife was living (Ruth Paine home) HAS been designated as such a place. One could argue that this location is just as critical due to it's immediate connection to not only the assassination but also the killing of Officer Tippit.Timcdfw (talk) 02:54, 14 December 2015 (UTC)Timcdfw  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Redirect to Lee Harvey Oswald for now at best as I'm a local from here and can confirm its local historic significance even if only marginal, but encyclopedia-wise, there may not be enough for a considerably better article yet. SwisterTwister   talk  06:50, 17 December 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 09:32, 19 December 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep - Notable on its own, as a new & unusual museum and a well-established place of significance within the events of the JFK assassination. The museum may be too new and unpublicized to have much RS coverage, but the site itself is discussed at length in virtually all books on Oswald, Ruby, Tippit, and the assassination. It figures prominently in treatments of the topic from all points on the spectrum, i.e. traditionalists like Manchester and Bugliosi, theorists like Lane, as well as government reports and journalism from then till now. SteveStrummer (talk) 20:31, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  17:23, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep After careful consideration, I find 's argument persuasive. This article can summarize useful information for serious scholars of the Kennedy assassination. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  04:42, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lee Harvey Oswald and incorporate content (if not already there) into that article. Notability isn't inherited, even for buildings. -- WV ● ✉ ✓  17:42, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - per 's analysis. The JFK assassination still holds a morbid fascination for many Americans. While notability isn't inherited, This was s key piece in the investigation into Harvey, the fact that it's still being mentioned in news articles 50+ years after it became notable, shows that it is lasting notability.  Onel 5969  TT me</i> 15:15, 2 January 2016 (UTC)


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