Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of closed drive-in theaters in recent years


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The result was   delete. PhilKnight (talk) 23:58, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

List of closed drive-in theaters in recent years

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Reeks of WP:IINFO. The list is almost completely unverifiable, as well. fuzzy510 (talk) 08:59, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete or severely refactor. "In recent years" just runs afoul of the WP:MOS which says "Avoid recently, soon, and now". I think this list is very verifiable, as local newspapers would tend to at least have a small blurb about the closing of a longtime business, but I'm not seeing why drive-ins that closed recently is a particularly notable topic for a list. --Chiliad22 (talk) 14:14, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The decline of drive-in theatres is notable; few items on the list will ever be encyclopedic subjects, though, and as such this list does not really list or help navigate to anything. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 17:04, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge This list of North American drive-ins that survived past 2000 is all drawn from the excellent | drive-ins.com database, which is a good link to put in the main article. I'm guessing that the purpose is for editors to add to the article if their local drive-in doesn't reopen this summer, but it's unlikely they would find the article.  If I were the author, I'd put some of this information about recent closures (such as the twelve theaters that closed in 2008) in the main drive-in theater article, which already has some silly lists about "drive-in songs".  Mandsford (talk) 17:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per Smerdis' reasoning. - Mgm|(talk) 22:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - not a list of wikilinks, which is the only way I can see this being useful.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 02:48, 9 April 2009 (UTC)


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