Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Miles Park (race track)


 * 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. (non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 15:58, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

Miles Park (race track)

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Lack of notability. It opened, there where races, it burned to the ground. Main reference is to a comcast personal webspace page, and a link to a newspaper article about it burning. User has had other articles of race tracks turned down at AfC because of simliar issue where the only information seems to be it opened, there where races, it closed/burned/went bankrupt/etc. Caffeyw (talk) 07:57, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 09:14, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Sports-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 09:14, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep Racetracks are significant cultural features in their areas; what information would you expect other than about the construction, the races, and the destruction. That's what people use them for. The same is true for any venue for athletics. Most of the references will inevitably be the competitions held there. This sort or reductionism can destroy the meaning of any article. Consider a college: consider a college: it is constructed, people come and attend classes, they graduate.     DGG ( talk ) 17:47, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
 * If there where competitions that are notable, or the field had something notable happen sure. Where there events that drew people from all around for a special event? As it stands now, it's just an article about an everyday horse track that opened, had a few non-notable races, and closed for whatever reason.  There needs to be something to show notability, simply being a horse track is not notable, there's hundreds if not thousands past and present.  Also schools get a pass on AfDs because of consensus that while not notable there's a benefit to having them here if they meet certain conditions.  Caffeyw (talk) 17:57, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep - As DGG said, racetracks are significant aspect of the cultural fabric of a city and region. To answer the nom's question above, there were events that drew people from all around on a daily basis.  It was of no surprise it took less than five seconds to find significant coverage of this race track, including its subsequent name "Commonweath Race Course." --Oakshade (talk) 19:30, 14 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Keep As shown by Oakshade, the topic meets our inclusion criteria. I would encourage the nominator to read and show understanding of WP:BEFORE, WP:WIP, and WP:PERFECT before continuing nominations of stubby articles on notable topics which can and should be allowed to grow over time and through regular editing to better serve the project.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 08:32, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per valid points made by DGG, Schmidt and Oakshade. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 20:38, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
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