Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Morassina


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The result was   keep. The Bushranger One ping only 23:54, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Morassina

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Appears to be about a cave in Germany. There is a claim that it is in the Guinness Book of Records, but lacks citations. There is an interwiki to de. Also, the creation entry in the edit log suggests some COI problems. Selket Talk 05:54, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - According to Mindat.org, it's a mine that operated from the 17th to the 19th centuries. It's now a tourist attraction. .  The German Wikipedia article is a lot more in-depth.  Nominating an article for deletion for it's 2nd edit and within six hours of its creation is not cool.  It should be made lest advert-like though. --Oakshade (talk) 06:53, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Would tagging it with db-spam have been less "not cool"? This process gives a week to see if anyone can come up with sources or if anyone other than the PR firm hired by the tourist attraction to promote it on Wikipedia cares. --Selket Talk 09:29, 28 February 2011 (UTC)


 * The Morassina article exists already in German language. With that background I started with Morassina in English as well. If this article survives, I personal will take care for the permanent improvement and the quality criteria. That’s way my proposal is, NOT to delete it. VR HHaeckel — Preceding unsigned comment added by HHaeckel (talk • contribs) 10:10, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:38, 28 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Weak keep The entry in the Guinness Book of World Records appears to have been only in the 1996 edition; I can't track it down. However there's a 2006 article on the minerals produced by the mine, "Das Alaunschieferbergwerk „Morassina" bei Schmiedefeld am Rennweg (Saalfelder Höhe) im Thüringischen Schiefergebirge", and that snippet view shows in the footnotes 2 further articles entirely about the mine. That article also talks about the stalactites, from a mineralogical point of view. Here it is in a guidebook as "worth a visit." There's likely more of a mention in Birgit Grosz, Museen in den neuen Bundesländern: Kultur- und Freizeitführer, but I can't see it online. This guidebook entry confirms the information I added to the article from the de.wikipedia entry: the dates and the fact the people who rediscovered the mine were looking for uranium. Putting the reference to "radon healing galleries" there together with the mine homepage, it seems exposure to radon is offered as a spa treatment there. I think it squeaks by as a notable mine and an existing tourist facility, but I'm puzzled how little there is online about the stalactites if they are really Guinness-worthy. --Yngvadottir (talk) 02:52, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science-related deletion discussions. -- Anarchangel (talk) 00:35, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
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 * Keep Nothing weak about those cites. Selket also has had a week to care, but I got Oakshade's citation in the article first. Score! Anarchangel (talk) 00:35, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
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