Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Essential Workers Monument

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. There is a consensus to Keep this article but a discussion to possibly Merge this article can occur on the article talk page. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:24, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Essential Workers Monument[edit]

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There was a huge burst of coverage around this when then-governor Cuomo announced it and the blocked proposals that followed. Labor Day, and Cuomo's tenure as governor, came and went, and two years later, there is no memorial nor any sign there will be one. I don't see any viable merger target in Category:COVID-19 pandemic monuments and memorials, and I don't think it would merit discussion in the Battery Park article nor in COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States#May_to_August_2021 or COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_York_City#Timeline where the parade is mentioned but this isn't. Thoughts? Star Mississippi 00:08, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Visual arts, COVID-19, and New York. Star Mississippi 00:08, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep due to the fact that something that has been cancelled doesn't inherently diminish its notability. Furthermore, something that may have been cancelled was planned at some point, without exception, which may provide extra notability. As long as the article is well-sourced and edited to clarify that the monument has been cancelled, then we can keep the article. IncompA 00:47, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_York_City#Social_impact. This should be mentioned somewhere but I don't believe we need a whole article for this sort of proposal that did not come to fruition. Reywas92^Talk 01:04, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Just because there hasn't been a monument built doesn't mean there shouldn't be an article on the subject. The topic meets WP:GNG via coverage from multiple secondary sources. While it is true that the topic hasn't been broached since 2021 (at least as far as I could find), and appears to be dead (per a passing mention in the NY Times) [[1]], I did uncover press coverage regarding what the current governor of New York had to say about the proposal [[2]]. This article should be expanded, not deleted. User:Let'srun 01:54, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but if consensus doesn't exist for that, at the very least, merge to COVID-19_pandemic_in_New_York_City#Social_impact per WP:ATD-M. This certainly passes WP:GNG. For now it also meets WP:SUSTAINED, noting Let'srun's sources, and, for example, a 2023 journal article that references the proposed monument in a discussion of essential workers [3]. In 10 years it may turn out to not meet WP:SUSTAINED and we might have a different discussion, but deleting based on that right now would be more in violation of WP:CRYSTAL than keeping it, because for the moment, the subject still notable. I could see a move to Proposed Essential Workers Monument or something like that, but MOS:AT may prefer the existing shorter title. —siro χ o 07:19, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Let'srun and Siroxo. Passes WP:SUSTAINED and WP:GNG. Sal2100 (talk) 20:04, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per others. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 20:48, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per discussion and Adams Memorial (a similar stalled project in Washington, D.C.). Randy Kryn (talk) 00:41, 19 August 2023 (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.