Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Register of Historic Places featured properties and districts (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 16:26, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

National Register of Historic Places featured properties and districts
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This is a list of items that have appeared in the "weekly highlight" column of the recent listings page for the National Register of Historic Places website. As noted in the first AFD, the weekly-highlight places aren't anything of particular significance: "the National Register staff chooses an interesting property that is to be listed that week", and different from other weekly-highlight places, and that's it. This is solely a list of items that appeared on one page of one website, with the selection criteria literally being "we thought it was interesting". As I said in the first AFD, this is comparable to a list of US Senators appearing in the newspaper The Hill: the list is a trivial intersection of notable topics, just as a list of senators mentioned in The Hill would be, and as a result it's not at all a useful list. Final note, the original AFD appears to have gotten kept partly on process/interpersonal grounds; there was a dispute going on between the AFD nominator and the list's creator, a dispute that later led to an arbitration case and an indefinite National Register topic ban for the creator. Unlike the first AFD, this should be voted purely on the (de)merits of the list itself: is it a good idea to have a list of places that appeared on one page of a US government website because the website staff thought they were interesting? Nyttend (talk) 12:58, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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 * Delete. There doesn't seem to be any objective criteria for featuring a property, and the featured properties don't get any special treatment (e.g. a plaque) nor does this provoke significant interest among the public. This is, therefore, essentially WP:TRIVIA. Pburka (talk) 15:05, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete There's no special significance to being a featured property; in fact, there have been weeks where there was only one new listing which was featured by default. That means we're essentially republishing the National Park Service's list of properties they found interesting, which isn't the job of an encyclopedia. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 16:36, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete The buildings and places themselves are certainly notable, but there is nothing encyclopedic about the fact that an "interesting" place was used for a week (or two) to spiff up a website. Cullen328  Let's discuss it  01:30, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
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