Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whites only prom


 * 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 of the debate was delete. OK, this is an excellent illustration of the problems which come of merging the article before the AFD is finished. Moink pointed out that the text is a copyvio. Therefore, I will also remove the section in the Taylor County article. One other thing, Taylor County is not the only county to have had white only proms, the same practise has taken place in Toombs County, Georgia as well, and so redirecting this to Taylor County won't make all that much sense. If a new article is to be created here I recommend that it be about segregated proms in general, and not just about what happened in a particular county. Sjakkalle (Check!)  16:05, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Whites only prom
Delete because article is about a single incident in a Georgia county. I have moved most of the text, and the links, to a new section of the article about that small county. John Broughton 22:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC) See - Taylor County, Georgia
 * Delete per nom. I think the info is interesting and noteworthy but not really deserving a seperate article and should be moved to another article per above -- † Ðy§ep§ion † Speak your mind 23:00, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Potential POV bait.--み使い Mitsukai 04:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Mitsukai. Stifle 17:04, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Mitsukai, I don't like articles whose titles seem to be calculated to generate flame Ruby 17:13, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete POV and not encyclopedic. Elfguy 18:31, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect since it's been merged. Kappa 19:51, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Very POV, and an extremely small matter in the grand scheme of things. It mabye deserves one sentence as part of another article concerning segregation in the United States.
 * Delete per nom. Avi 18:33, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep or better still, merge. I don't see anything POV here - just a description of events. It is true that these events occured just in a single place, and so giving it a category of its own seems not quite right. So, in my opinion, the information should be merged into "prom" as an interesting set of facts occuring in a specific place as evidence for some of the problems with the "prom" (which, to someone who went to high school outside the US seems like torture!) Having said that, the article calls itself "white only prom" - and that is *what it was* Duracell 23:32, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong Merge into the article of the school this occurred in. It is a very important event (national TV recognition through O'Reilly), and should be a full heading in that school's article. -- ʀ6ʍ  ɑ  ʏ89  01:34, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. bikeable (talk) 03:38, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This is a copyvio. The first three paragraphs are from  moink 15:45, 15 February 2006 (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.