Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Central Texas Museum of Automotive History

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 was keep. L Faraone 00:17, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Central Texas Museum of Automotive History

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Unremarkable private museum. Lacks coverage in 3rd party sources. Google News Search brings up a single hit on volunteerism. Google search brings up only directory entries and primary sources. Dick's Classic Garage article was unmerged and prod on this article was contested. RadioFan (talk) 17:21, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related article for the same reason:

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:36, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Museums and libraries-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:37, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete begrudgingly. I badly wanted to save this article because it sounds cool and I have a soft spot for museums, but there really isn't anything of substance on the museum. A few passing mentions in several issues of Texas Monthly but they're barely even one-line mentions and I question whether that's even a source that establishes notability. So a fun personal collection but apparently not that notable. StarM 01:56, 1 January 2012 (UTC) Merge per discussion below. StarM 02:12, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Well known in Europe for its Tucker torpedo, the only one which is in unused condition. Covered in the late eighties in Rétroviseur and Car Classic, plus recently on French television (M6). Hektor (talk) 11:50, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Those could help but without citations, it's difficult to determine how these sources might help this article meet notability guideliens. Are they brief mentions as StarM has noted in Texas Monthly, or is it significant coverage where this museum is the subject of the article? Also citations help the article meet verifiability requirements. Can you provide more details on these?--RadioFan (talk) 17:01, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Click on the Google News link for this AfD, and note how this topic receives significant coverage in reliable sources. Should I list them all here? Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:05, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The Austin Statesmen article on daytrips to the museum and San Marcos one on the opening seem sufficent to meet WP:RS and WP:V but only for an article covering the museum as a whole. I'd be willing to withdraw this AFD if we can come to concensus of a merge of Dick's Classic Garage to Central Texas Museum of Automotive History--RadioFan (talk) 14:44, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment unless I misread, the Dick's content is in the article already. Maybe a redirect? StarM 19:38, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

'Comment' it was merged, then unmerged but it looks like NA1k remerged it. If we can get another opinion or two perhaps we can close this as a merge to the main article and be done with it. It would be nice to see some of the references mentioned by editors in this AFD incorporated into the article soon though. We dont want this to get closed out as a merge and then forgotten because the article was "saved".--RadioFan (talk) 19:00, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment, support merge/redirect of Dick's Classic Garage to this article, and keeping this article - I find the notion of a merge acceptable, and I've performed the merging of all information from the Dick's Classic Garage article to the Central Texas Museum of Automotive History article. Northamerica1000^(talk) 22:56, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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