Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pichilemu city hall


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The result was merge/redirect to Pichilemu City Council. Notability has not been established but the content would enhance the target. TerriersFan (talk) 22:32, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Pichilemu city hall

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A building of essentially no architectural or historical significance, serving as town hall for a city of 12,000 (that's what? 200th largest in Chile?), and barely mentioned even in local sources. How exactly is this notable? Biruitorul Talk 15:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge to Government of Pichilemu, which is little more than an outline at present. Pichilemu City Council is also short and could be merged there too.  postdlf (talk) 15:39, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Chile-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:38, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 19:38, 7 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep The building is notable. There have been even studies (thesis linked) on the building. There is probably not much information around because the commune's official name (Ilustre Municipalidad de Pichilemu) is almost the same to the used for the building (Municipalidad de Pichilemu). However, another thing to take into account is that Pichilemu, even if it isn't a not-so-large city (it is a city under Chilean law: every populated place with more than 3,000 inhabitants is a city), Pichilemu is the capital of the Cardenal Caro Province. Just sayin'. Diego Grez (talk) 22:38, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Is the thesis a doctoral thesis? Per WP:RS, that's the only generally acceptable type of thesis for sourcing articles.
 * Sure, it's legally a city, but by any ordinary standard, a pretty small one. And yes, it's a provincial capital, but so are similarly-sized cities like Ardahan, Phongsali or Murska Sobota, but their city halls are also probably not notable. Neither do we have articles on the city halls of large American cities like Phoenix, Jacksonville, Indianapolis or El Paso. (I'm using American cities as an example because the US is probably our most extensively-covered country.) What makes a town hall notable is neither the status nor the size of the city; it's history and/or architectural significance. That has yet to be conclusively demonstrated here. - Biruitorul Talk 02:41, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:49, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Merge per Postdlf. A decent article is anyway better than three stubs. --Elekhh (talk) 09:35, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.