Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Women's History Museum and Educational Center


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:11, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

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Non-notable; local museum which lacks significant coverage by independent reliable sources. It is also known as The Women's Museum of California, but despite its sweeping choices of names it is actually the San Diego Women's Museum, focused entirely on the women of San Diego County. I found very little Reliable Source coverage under any of these names. The only significant news coverage I could find was in January 2011 when they announced a name change, and in fairness I added that reference to the article; otherwise the article is entirely self-referential. All other news hits I found were passing references, calendar items, and occasional local coverage when they announced their Hall of Fame nominees. Not enough to meet WP:ORG in my opinion. (Note: there is some news coverage under the name California Women's History Museum which was not about this museum; it was about a proposed museum in Sacramento that was never actually created.) MelanieN (talk) 17:27, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. MelanieN (talk) 17:44, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. MelanieN (talk) 17:46, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Closing administrator please note: there are redirect pages at Women's Museum of California and Women’s History Museum and Educational Center (the difference there is the apostrophe). --MelanieN (talk) 18:26, 27 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Subject lacks significant coverage in 3rd party sources. It has been mentioned in some news sources, but only in passing or in community calendar type listings.  Not even finding mentions of this museum in guide books for the city.   RadioFan (talk) 18:48, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I was surprised when this article was drawn to my attention over a copyright problem. Mostly by the date of creation - December 2011. I remember another article on this subject, or articles on the inductees containing copyright text like that I've deleted from this article - or even both. I can't remember what it or they were, but there was a lot of copyright stuff involved from the same website then. I've nothing against this museum, but the referencing doesn't do much (under WP:RS) to show notability. I'm commenting for now rather than !voting as I removed quite a bit of the article as copyvio. I've suggested to the original author that the referencing should be improved, but if Melanie can't find anything I don't hold out much hope. Peridon (talk) 18:54, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete; although it does exist, I have not found sufficient reliable sources that have significantly written about the subject in a manor that shows that the subject passes WP:ORG or WP:GNG. Perhaps it is too soon and the content can be userfied if requested by the primary editor, but until then it should be deleted from articlespace. --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 22:04, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
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