Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Griffith's Adventure

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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 23:13, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Griffith's Adventure

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Notability concerns. Other than the name being old, there is no claim of notability. It is unclear if a structure still exists; I can't find any sourcing that suggests it does. The references in the article are all local genealogical sources (except one which is old court proceedings), and the ones I could check with Google Books were trivial mentions of the property. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 03:47, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maryland-related deletion discussions. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 03:47, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:08, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

keep albeit weakly. There is a tendency to be biased against things referenced only by books, but a published book is a reliable source, even if it takes some trouble to get to it. This article is referenced to real paper books. The building probably isn't there any more (I had a good look on streetview and google's satellite view, and all I could see was decaying motor-vehicles and post-industrial collapse). But the publisher's blurb from "Adventurers, Cavaliers, Patriots: Ancestors Remembered", one of the references, sums it up: it explains how vignettes glimpsed across 10-11 generations and a couple of centuries paint a picture of colonial America. If we delete them because they are mere vignettes, because the structures aren't there any more, or because they are merely in books, then we lose that glimpse. Elemimele (talk) 12:38, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 04:34, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 00:23, 23 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

delete First of all, the lead sentence is false, at least when it comes to tense: the point in question (and the coordinates are unsourced) is at the entrance to a fenced-in parking lot in the brutally industrialized area south of the tracks. That point also is not and never has been in Howard County. After that, the whole article is essentially a coat rack for biographic information about two members of the family, of whom only the second might be notable. The article makes no real claim for the notability of the house, and from what it says its slight claim to fame is as the Griffith family home, which doesn't cut it. Mangoe (talk) 22:02, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:MILL. Does not assert or establish any particular significance; the same kind of article could be written about any building. In other words, the article does not establish why an article is needed about this topic. Sandstein 21:15, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.