Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sophie Masloff (fireboat)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:05, 11 July 2021 (UTC)

Sophie Masloff (fireboat)

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I'm pretty sure that this fireboat, out of many thousands that exist throughout the world, isn't notable. Black Kite (talk) 22:21, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
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 * Keep, the level of sourcing already present from a range of publications demonstrates that this boat is indeed notable. I have added an additional source. NemesisAT (talk) 22:36, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 23:09, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * All of them are from local papers and radio stations, except one from CBS but that isn't actually about the boat anyway. Black Kite (talk) 07:55, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * It covers the need for the boat so I believe it should count towards establishing notability. As for the other sources, Pittsburgh is a large city covering a wide area. Regardless, WP:GNG doesn't appear to exclude local sources. There is WP:SIGCOV on this subject. NemesisAT (talk) 08:23, 5 July 2021 (UTC)


 * weak Keep as we already have an extensive list of Fireboats, many of whom have their own articles, which means it would be hard to merge the Sophie Masloff article anywhere. It falls between two stools: the article is too well-referenced, and the boat is probably not un-notable enough, to be reduced to a single line mention in the Fireboats article; but Sophie Masloff doesn't appear to be quite as notable as some of the others. Incidentally, local newspapers are certainly reliable sources for something like this, and in a city the size of Pittsburgh count as denoting some importance to the subject. Elemimele (talk) 08:41, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep appears to pass GNG (Strange nom rationle. Article needs infobox & c/e). Djflem (talk) 06:41, 9 July 2021 (UTC)


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