Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Three Valley Museum

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 no consensus. W.marsh 17:36, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Three Valley Museum[edit]

This article was originally speedy deleted as CSD A7. DRV determined that an assertion of notability did exist, so the article is submitted for AfD. This version is currently unsourced, but the DRV uncovered possible sources, which commenters here may wish to review. Deletion is on the table, given continued notability concerns. Xoloz 12:49, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Durant, Oklahoma. The museum has little or no independent coverage, and looks like the run-of-the-mill small town museum which are common throughout the United States. Nonetheless, the city of Durant confirms its existence [1] and I have no reason to doubt the museum's webpage when it says it has the artifacts listed in the article [2]. Information on cultural life in a small town is welcome, and this museum should fit neatly into the article we have on the town. Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Merge as above, a sentence or two will do. All but the tiniest towns have a museum or two of this type, and they generally have no particular notability outside being a small collection of artifacts of local interest. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:45, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A quick google search yields 2,100+ hits, including some coverage in major and minor regional papers. As per a civic site and this (not a source), it's in a stand-alone building, two stories, and open daily. It's been open for 30+ years. Not sure I understand the comment about small towns and every town having one. At just under 40,000 people Durant is not a small town by Oklahoma standards. That puts it somewhere around the 800th largest city in the US. It appears to be one of the significant civic institutions in the town. Even if it's true that every town has one, we already have 2 million + articles; surely there is room in a fully built out Wikipedia for several hundred city museums articles if they are otherwise notable. Wikidemo 22:35, 15 October 2007 (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.