Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oil field families


 * 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   delete. Tone 15:04, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

Oil field families

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Essay without enough sources to back up the claims made in the article. There's not enough here for a full article. —C.Fred (talk) 06:02, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete currently WP:NOTESSAYish. Topic may be good for a thesis but the article is lacking any useful info.-- &#9790;Loriendrew&#9789;  &#9743;(talk)  15:45, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I think this can easily be deleted under WP:TNT. It's a general concept, though, so it's hard to judge the notability or prejudice that should be applied to future re-creation. I think the precedent would be something like Military brat, but I'm not really sure how something like that is classified and its notability assessed. We can probably cross that bridge when we come to it, though. 0x0077BE  [talk/contrib] 18:29, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:43, 2 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. As is, it just isn't going to work. BUT, I googled it and apparently "oil field families"...it's kind of a *thing*. I included some more sources about the topic just in case some experienced editor has the yen to read through them and decide to create an article on the subject. If the show they mentioned comes to fruition, I think it may meet notability guidelines. There really seems to be a lot of online discussion groups on the topic. Someone might be able to do something with the topic. Bali88 (talk) 03:30, 4 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I edited the article to bring it more in line with what it should be and added a few more sources that might be useful. Imo, there is enough out there to write an article documenting oil field workers and all the things that go along with that. I found an article talking about how men are skipping college to work in dangerous oil fields. Another said that oil field work is increasing sex trafficking. I think there is enough for oil field families or oil field wives to have a section in it, if someone is interested in creating it. Bali88 (talk) 18:28, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I still don't think it's notable/encyclopedic even if they are identifiable as a group. If you notice Army Wives is an article about the show, and there's no article about the concept of being an army wife. Same thing goes for Military wives, not article on "military families" or anything of that sort, even though the group of families of people in the military are almost certainly more of a recognizable group than families of people who work in oil fields. The best analogy I can see is Military brat / Military brat (U.S. subculture), which is effectively about the families of people in the military, but that's at least a very common term. It's not clear to me that even if it's got a little coverage that it deserves an article about the concept. 0x0077BE  [talk/contrib] 22:16, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar enough with the topic to know how notable it is, but maybe some editor will pop up with an interest in the whole thing and surprise us. Oh, and to clarify, I don't think *this* article is enough. But if someone wanted to write oil field workers and include a section on the family aspect, I think it would fly.
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