Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Western Fair Archives list of photographs


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The result was   delete. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 00:36, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Western Fair Archives list of photographs

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Wikipedia is not a directory and not an indiscriminate collection of data, and this appears to be both. Does this satisfy WP:LISTN? Are any or all of the 636 photographs collectively notable or is this just a checklist for what is already a category at Commons? --Animalparty-- (talk) 11:02, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Pictures of parking lots, crowds and livestock aren't going to do it. Clarityfiend (talk) 11:51, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Photography-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 12:20, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete. No independent notability. Indeed, I'm not sure the article even makes a claim of one. If the closer is feeling particularly generous, perhaps a redirect to Western Fair, but that section needs an aggressive pruning as well and might not ultimately survive in subsection form. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 13:27, 5 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Huh! I haven't actually finished editing and Categorizing the article. I was going to delete most of them and I should have used my Sandbox for it but I am working on two other articles there. If i delete all the images from 101 to the end, 1-100 are already on Wikimedia Commons under the Article or Category: Western Fair and are historically important and interesting photos of the Western Fair circa 1923 that's where the accompanying photos came from. I only have 2 hours a day at the Library so came in today to place in proper categories and links. The article Western Fair Archives used to be an article on its own and is now incorporated in the main one for some reason. Haiku Tea (talk) 14:46, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Possibly the former article was merged because it violated policies of What Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not a catalog or database, and not a lot of things, but an encyclopedia. --Animalparty-- (talk) 21:38, 5 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Looks like material for Commons, not Wikipedia, so long as the photographs are public domain or freely licensed and so can actually be uploaded there. postdlf (talk) 23:09, 5 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I will put the article information on Commons and go ahead and remove it from the Western Fair page connection. I just thought people reading the main article should know about the photo collection. Go ahaead and delete it then. Haiku Tea (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: If you want to organize the Archive images apart from the more recent ones, you can simply create a new category within Category:Western Fair. The link from Wikipedia to Commons, for people who would like to find photos, is already present in the External links section of Western Fair. --Animalparty-- (talk) 20:20, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
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